Mame, Ben and Bernard’s family
Mame self-declared that after moving to her homestead she had a lot to learn: How to get along without many things she felt were necessities, how to share with neighbors and tired travelers.
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What about dash cameras?
Question: I have been thinking about getting a dash camera for my vehicle.
Floating through the rapids
I’m an old man but not utterly clueless and as I hear music come out of the ceiling, I hear rap and hip-hop become monosyllabic, a string of shouts and macho mumbles with machinelike percussion, a sort of anti-music, and then along comes a young woman who sings actual stories in whole sentences to a real melody and you have Taylor Swift and she takes over the music business and becomes the most famous person on earth, bigger than Vladimir Putin.
Sixties’ Stuff
February, Black History Month, saw PBS deliver many TV documentaries on this subject.
Mary (Mame) Earley
More about Mary (Mame) Earley and her adventures south of Frontier as a teacher at the Paul School:She described that during school vacation she could travel by riverboat or cross the river into Ontario and take the Muskeg Limited to visit relatives or to attend “teacher meetings” in the Falls.
Conundrum Continuation
Last week’s journal entry, “Key Conundrum” recounting key fob/balky vehicle’s computer confusion, elicited unprecedented feedback to date; upcoming local newspaper publications may produce even more.
Life saving text messages
Question: I thought I heard about 911 being able to find accurate locations even when people don’t know exactly where they are.
Good for what ails you
This February has been a wild one as far as weather goes, not what we’ve come to expect for International Falls in February.