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Posted by honey & quinine 8 months ago.
It was a taste of my dream destiny My sponsor and friend Arthur Humphrey wanted to depart Grimes Field (see Part 2) with plenty of time to assure Museum Curator Joe Besecker and other organizers we were on hand for the re-dedication, and that’s what...
Posted by honey & quinine 8 months ago.
On Sunday, May 29, from noon to 5 pm, AeroKnow Museum welcomes all visitors with birthday cup cakes and coffee (soft drinks and cold water cooler water also available) as we observe the start of our second year in our new home at Landmark Aviation, Abraha...
Posted by honey & quinine 8 months ago.
May 18, 2011 . . . . . . . . . . by Job Conger . . . . . . . . . . written May 18, 2011 I’ve walked away from fog and moping over dreams I had been hoping would come true and pining for the wonder years doomed never to [...]
Posted by honey & quinine 8 months ago.
Arthur Humphrey, friend/benefactor and I had stopped at the North Grand Shop’n'Save where he purchased a styrofoam cooler and provisions for the drive east. Neither of us like to waste time eating in a restaurant when traveling and extending time en...
Posted by honey & quinine 8 months ago.
None of my friend are directly connected to this post, but all of my friends have helped me learn this. Part I — The Lesson That Must be Learned The most important key to success is not how tall you are, or the shape of your nose, or your wais...
Posted by honey & quinine 8 months ago.
If I had a dime for every hour I’ve spent resenting and dreading what I have just finished doing, I would likely be a richer hummin’ bean than I will be when the check for said dread’s happy outcome arrives in the mail in a few weeks. ...
Posted by honey & quinine 8 months ago.
I can hear you thinking, “Why would anybody with a right mind want to fly to Madison, Wisconsin” Monday, I received a letter from the Internal Revenue Service, which I placed on the mail table to read after my article for the June Springfiel...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
It’s no secret that I could become a rich man lecturing to children about the importance of fastidious dental hygiene if you don’t want to wind up with teeth that would look fine in one of the participants in the opening scene of Macbeth ...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
The most rewarding experience of my life as a poet and vocalizer of poetry occurred between March 16 and March 21, 2011, thanks to the efforts of friends from foreign lands I didn’t know until the start of this new year. If I were not a writer o...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
The most rewarding experience of my life as a poet and vocalizer of poetry occurred between March 16 and March 21, 2011, thanks to the efforts of friends from foreign lands I didn’t know until the start of this new year. If I were not a writer o...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
Of course, you know the general subject, so I’ll spare you some time. I just learned on the national news that US military forces prepared for last night’s successful mission (God bless them every one) by “recreating a replica of the saf...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
If I could do for the AeroKnow Museum as part of a team of volunteers, instead of the solo enterprise it has become (much to my surprise), I could continue to enjoy a part of the local community that I have enjoyed immensely since interviewing Bobbie Pier...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
I returned home last night, half-way hoping that Judy next door might have cut the grass after I called her in the early afternoon. If I had been home and her lawn had been in the condition mine’s in (and it almost is) and she’d have called me...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
Yesterday I didn’t attend the Springfield Poets and Writers Group meeting I had vowed to resume attending for two reasons: ONE — The reminder of the meeting did not reach me until four hours before it was slated to begin, and not even I can wr...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
AeroKnow Museum’s location at the best FBO n Springfield (Fixed Base Operations repair and refuel airplanes) has channeled dozens of pilots, about 40 friends and localpeople and more than 100 passengers into the ground floor Operations Centra...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
Monday morning I deposited a paycheck from mon emploiyeur but kept enough cash to visit J.C. Penney Saturday afternoon to obtain at least two of three things I havent purchased since 2005: a shirt, business trousers, and a pair of shoes. Don’t te...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
It’s April, and love is in the air. I have been content to drive J. David Jones (prominent legislator in the Illinois General Assembly who worked for establishment of Capital Airport in 1947) Parkway for years without encountering “love in b...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
Oh Emily by Job Conger I’m nobody’s. Whose are you Are you a “nobody’s” also This is the outcome, I have learned, of those who to themselves be falso. whose independent ways proclaim contentment as a hummin’ bean, com...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
The big difference between Springfield Precinct 50′s two elections this year provide a picture of an electorate largely untouched by sentience and an observable pulse. Every time I have judged an election I have tracked the number of voters by the...
Posted by honey & quinine 9 months ago.
One month after the major travail that visited northeastern Japan, one of my favorite radio programs — Wall Street Journal Radio, an hour of usually well-produced news on WTAX (1240 AM) from 4:30 to 6:00 — blithely announced the “one mon...
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