in memorium
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A stellar songwriter
If there are songs that help to tell the story of your life, then Gordon Lightfoot has one or two songs on my personal soundtrack. For better or worse. Looking over popular music over the past number of decades, there are some artists you don’t really understand why they became famous, and at the same… Continue reading
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An epic life
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/04/25/harry-belafonte-dies-appreciation-haygood/ We lost a giant this week: Harry Belafonte. I grew up in the ’70s and ’80s and knew Belafonte not as a singer or an actor but as a civil rights activist and a force for good. (I thank my mom for telling me about him.) But even I, knowing some of the story,… Continue reading
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A memorial to a fallen hero
I was looking through some filings with the Pennsylvania Legislature yesterday when I came upon a resolution that took me back. It was a request for cosponsors for a resolution to rename a bridge on Syberton Road in Gallitzin Township, Pennsylvania, for Private Martin J. Hanlon. Hanlon was a 1968 graduate of Cresson High School… Continue reading
About Me
Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
Nows and Forevers 