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Of Legends

Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and one of the fathers of tabletop role-playing games, died on Tuesday, Mar 04, at the age of 69. He had suffered from heart problems. http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9885383-1.html

Family Legends – Working the Union

We have a third-generation family story we tell of Frances William Schryer – my maternal grandfather. To the right, Frank and family. Frank had 7 brothers and sisters. He married my grandmother when he was 23 and she 19. He was apprenticed as a tool and dye maker at the time, and earning a goodContinueContinue reading “Family Legends – Working the Union”

Everest

Last week Sir Edmund Hillary, who, teamed with Tenzing Norgay, first scaled Mt. Everest, died at the age of 88 in his home country of New Zealand.* Hillary and Norgay reached the top of Everest after a brutal climb, and were later asked what they were thinking when they made the summit. Sir Hillary talkedContinueContinue reading “Everest”

Life

Life consists of what a man is thinking of all day — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Legend of Hubby

On my recent trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes, I told the legend of the dunes to Jim and Joyce, our guests from out of state, who were unfamiliar with it Long, long ago, before voyageurs paddled canoes down rivers and streams, before mighty lumbermen cleared forests with sharp, shiny axes, before wooden ships carriedContinueContinue reading “Legend of Hubby”