Shuttle Rock
Right around the time 90-year-old William Shatner was aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft for a suborbital spaceflight in mid- October, Highland Park High School graduate (Class of 1976) and…
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Cartoons
Oklahoman Better Than Ok
The wooden floor in Aaron Umsted’s bedroom in Oklahoma never had a chance. Especially around Tony Awards time. As a teen growing up in Durant, Oklahoma, Umsted would plop in…
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Organizer Extraordinaire
There’s likely at least one pile, of something, sitting around your home. Thinking of adding a piece of paper, or an item of clothing, or a dish, to it? Be…
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Trident and True
Go ahead, thank former Navy SEAL Shane M Anderson for his service to the country. But don’t expect a simple ‘thank you’ in return. The 43-year-old father of three and…
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A Nonagenarian And A Gentleman
Abe “A.J.” Goldsmith graduated from high school in Chicago on a Thursday and found himself, three days later, in West Lafayette, Indiana—as a freshman in college. From Lake View High…
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Wizardry Of Iz
Izzy Kharasch didn’t wait very long to propose to his future wife, Kaye. Izzy popped the question before the end of their first date more than 30 years ago. A…
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Aye, Aye, Karen Curtiss
It’s probably safe to assume no one learned how to sail like a 9-year-old Karen Curtiss did on a lake in Michigan decades ago—all by herself, on a Sunfish, with…
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Nomad No More
Ever met a man who was born in India, attended Lake Forest Academy, met his future wife in Russia, taught English in Eastern Europe, studied linguistics at the University of…
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The Spirit of 67
Traci Franksen was 8, maybe 9, when she started walking around her house in tiny Waterloo, Wisconsin, with a book in one hand and a classroom globe in the other….
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