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Bob Karp is a friend of mine, an award-winning photo-journalist retired from Morristown’s The Daily Record, and now living in North Carolina. You may know him for his iconic image of the ‘Jet Star’ roller coaster in Seaside Heights after Hurricane Sandy.His Twitter thread from January 3, 2021 is a thing of beauty, and […] At this time three months ago tonight – December 2, 2018 – this is the first entry in my admissions record at Newton Memorial Hospital. If not for my neighbor who found me unconscious, the Lakeland EMS volunteers who began treatment & rushed me to the hospital, and the talented ER doctors […] Today, I start my 60th trip around the sun, and I’m planning on using the coming year for a ‘mini bucket-list check-down,’ and to escape much of the growing absurdity and insanity that is Internet and American politics. Birthdays offer a time to reflect on the past year, and look ahead to the coming […] [Note: This is a repost of a blog entry from September 11, 2013] Since October of 2001, I have worn this band to honor the memory of Yuji Goya, a 42-year-old Japanese national, husband, father of two, and vice-president of Mizuho Capital Markets Corporation, located on the 80th floor of Two World Trade Center. On […] Fourth of July, 2016. Hudson Farm Community Garden, Andover, NJ. It’s Independence Day, 2016. Let freedom ring. “One of the most famous political speeches on freedom in the twentieth century was delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union message to Congress,” according to the National Endowment for the […] The People’s House – June 26, 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. 47 years ago today – on the evening of April 4, 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy addressed a crowd from the back of a pick-up truck at a campaign rally in Indianapolis and announced that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis. Having little time to […] No, not for yourself (although the weather for Sunday looks seasonably cool) but for someone less fortunate. My friend Andrea Proctor, the Resource Interpretive Specialist at Historic Waterloo Village posted this on their Facebook page shortly after I posted the announcement for the Feast on History program to this blog: Waterloo Village We had […] |