Champions and historians of skiing were celebrated in Lake Placid over March 26 to 30, while another, the most accomplished US cross-country skier in history, Jessie Diggins, was burning up the Mount Van Hoevenberg course. As a consequence, it was nearly a perfect storm of skiing ...
As I write this column, it is April first. I hate practical jokes, but I wouldn’t mind so much if they were limited to one day a year when I could stay home and not answer the phone. A day like today, April Fools’ Day. The conventional wisdom is that nobody knows how or when April ...
The Temple Beth El, in Williamsburg, was recently once again a forum for a Sunday lecture. This time it was Dr. Joel Levine, who spent 41 years at NASA as Senior Research Scientist in the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center and as Mars Scout Program Scientist at NASA ...
Are you a fan of the TV series “Game of Thrones?” It is one of many spin-offs of the card game “Clue,” based on a parlor Game, Murder, patented by the British musician Anthony Pratt in 1944. The game’s premise is that a blackmailer invites six people, each with a dark secret, to his ...
I’ve been told my Grandpa Allen’s father, John, was a dirt farmer in the Detroit area, and that he worked as a teamster. A teamster lower case, not a member of the Teamsters Union. John Allen carted things around for people, and I suspect that the vehicle he used was a mule-drawn wagon, ...
“‘Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stock-fish!” This is Sir John Falstaff, in Shakepeare’s “Henry IV, part I,” mincing no words as he berates young Prince Hal for, basically, calling him fat. Falstaff gives it right back, ...