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Easter Vigil @ St Pat’s
The beginning of the Great Easter Vigil at St Patrick’s Co-Cathedral with Bishop Michael Warfel presiding. Lots of baptisms and confirmations and eucharistic celebrations.
New Town Arising Around New University
About 25 miles to the east of Naples and Fort Myers, really a long way out in the boondocks, there is a new town going up. In Florida that may not be such big news but this town is being built around a new university rather than a golf course or a riding stable or [… Read More]
The Second Sunday in Lent (B): “holocaust”
I heard this word—holocaust— a couple of times this morning in the first reading about the patriarch Abraham getting ready to offer his only son Isaac as a sacrifice, and wondered what I had missed in my reading on European history. My immediate thought was something like this railroad into the concentration camp at Auschwitz. [… Read More]
One of the Unintended Consequences of Local Warming
Sometime last week both Maggie the Dog and I were startled while she was snoozing under the breakfast table and I was on my 2nd cup of coffee and 1st Sudoku puzzle. It sounded like a bird had run into one of our sunroom windows, which seems to happen a lot, summer or winter, though [… Read More]
The good news is, if this sucker blows, global warming is not going to be a problem.”
Yellowstone Park is a couple of hours away by car in the summer and even further away in the winter, but even so, when a very low probability catastrophe looms just over the horizon, it seems reasonable to pay attention. I remember my first visit to the Park, just after we had moved our whole [… Read More]
Let Us Now Praise Great Teachers
Victor Davis Hanson, a professor and farmer from California, now I think retired from both professions, is worth reading as he aims at the truth and getting there as quickly as he can with an unusual degree of fluency in the language. Finding and then recognizing the really good teachers among us has long been [… Read More]
Where in the World is Billings, Mo. Population: 1,070?
Donna Healy has an interesting article in the Gazette today about the sister city most Billings residents don’t know they have.
Eleanor Roosevelt in Billings
Here is an entry from October 1, 1954 by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt about her visit to Billings. It’s a chatty, but interesting entry. One thing I found interesting; Mrs. Roosevelt lists what she feels makes a hotel comfortable and it seems the Northern fit the bill. Who would have thought washcloths, waste baskets and [… Read More]
Gov. Schweitzer Touts Billings History
Governor highlights Billings history While heading to the beach in Billings may seem impossible today, it wasn’t so far fetched 80 million years ago. Governor Brian Schweitzer helped unveil a new geology sign to better showcase one of Montana’s oldest wonders. Kids of all ages turned out Wednesday to see what used to be a [… Read More]
Today in Billings History
August 4, 1882 The Billings Post Office is established. From Montana Dateline by Ellis Roberts Parry.