Western Catholic Building

It's now known as the Willis Tower in Chicago. The name was changed from the Sears Tower a few years ago. It's a building I have been in several times and I have enjoyed the view from the observation area at the top of the 110 story structure.

It was 260 years ago today that Ben Franklin flew a kite during a lightning storm to prove that lightning was a discharge of electricity.  Why Franklin was flying the kite during a storm is still in question. This kite flying episode let me to thinking of the time when Dennis Oliver and I