NOTE: To read Chuck Miller’s book “The Robins of Iverhill: A Minor League Fairy Tale,” as well as the short stories in the “Christmas in Iverhill” series, visit this link. Monday, December 24th, 1973. Port’s alarm clock rang at 8:00 a.m., with that same bang-bang-bang bell-ringing that married 8:00 a.m. to the end of sleep. …
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A new life for my old high school building.
The Street Academy of Albany operated from 1974 to approximately 1986 in a building at 165 Clinton Avenue in Albany’s Arbor Hill neighborhood. Ninety years prior to the Street Academy claiming tenancy in that structure, the building was originally constructed as Public School No. 7 to serve the neighborhood residents. After Street Academy left the…
Read MoreThe Littlest Angel is the ONLY Hallmark Christmas special you need to see.
Follow me on this. It’s December 6, 1969. And among the television offerings on NBC that evening was a broadcast of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, an anthology series designed to entertain viewers and hopefully sell lots of greeting cards. The special that evening was a musical rendering of Charles Tazewell’s 1950’s radio script of…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 9 2023
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. I’m just trying to get up and get out there and enjoy my Saturday, and I hope you do the same. I just need to take care of this wee little thing this morning … capturing the blog posts on my blogroll that I feel you would enjoy reading…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for December 8, 2023
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreCan I get a Buena Vista Panorama shot of the Hamilton College Chapel?
Yes, I’m still trying to pull a Buena Vista Panorama image – a super-ultra-wide panorama with 120 film and my Rolleflex Automat MX camera – for Competition Season 2024. And so far, I’ve had some okay shots and some less than successful shots. So let’s try something else. Road trip to my alma mater. Hamilton…
Read MoreCan I get a Buena Vista Panorama shot on Central Avenue?
So it’s late September, and I still have a few rolls of AGFA Scala black and white slide film in the freezer. The only company in the world that can still develop this slide film, DR5 in Iowa, announced there would be a development run in November. So if I want to use this film…
Read MoreDo you want to be a Beagle Scout? Now it’s possible!
In 1974, the comic strip Peanuts introduced a new recurring plotline – that of Snoopy leading a team of his bird friends as the “Beagle Scouts.” Snoopy would act as the scoutmaster, while the birds – Woodstock, of course, but at least three of his friends – would follow Snoopy on hikes and campouts. This…
Read MoreIs it “is” or is it “in” in it?
As a Pittsburgh Steelers fan in New York, it’s often a guessing game as to whether I’ll see the Black and Gold on my TV screen or if I’ll have to do a hybrid watch/listen combination to follow my favorite football team. In other words, if the Steelers play on one of the prime time…
Read MoreNormal is a relative term.
Two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to remove a diabetic abscess from one of my toes. I blogged about it … because, of course I did. I spent the past two weeks healing. And last Friday, the podiatrist felt that my progress had improved to the point where he took the stitches out of what…
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