Dick Clark was known as America's oldest teenager having hosted American Bandstand on TV for years. Clark passed away in 2012 after an illustrious career in TV and Radio.
Having grown up in New York State, I lived literally on the Erie Canal in Rome, New York. It’s a canal that connects the Hudson River at Albany, New York with Lake Erie at Buffalo, New York. It runs some 363 miles through central New York State. The concept to build the canal came in 1807 and construction began in 1817 with the canal opening officially on this day, October 26 in 1825. Why do I m
Dick Clark was known as America's oldest teenager having hosted American Bandstand on TV for years. Clark passed away in 2012 after an illustrious career in TV and Radio.
I was out of town this weekend and I ran into someone who started yelling my name, trying to get my attention. He new me, but I was not familiar with him. It amazes me the people I run into away from Quincy. I told this story to a friend and he related a story back that he too was recently out of town and ran into his all-time favorite teacher from years ago. We started talking about our favorite
Call it Table Tennis or Ping Pong, it is still a fun game to play and a great way to get some exercise as well. As a two time winner of the Rome, New York summer table tennis championships as a kid, I found ping pong to be quite a bit of fun to play.
Now that we are a few weeks into the new school season I am sure that, if you are a student reading this, you already have a favorite teacher. If you are no longer going to school I know you had a favorite teacher when you did go to school.