It was 1964, or thereabouts, and WARR – Radio Free Toledo was broadcasting on the AM dial. My friend, John Arduser, and I were running our own radio station. I don’t think it ever had a name or call letters, but these days I refer to it as WARR – Arduser Rowland Radio. Our broadcast […]
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Detroit Tigers ’63 is a tribute to my interest in baseball and my favorite player of the time — Al Kaline. It is also my first known attempt at self-publishing, taking the form of a compiled scrapbook when I was eight years old. Created from Tiger game programs and The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) newspaper clippings,
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O Trebuchet (sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum / O Christmas Tree) O Trebuchet O Trebuchet How graceful is your swing arm Your beauty hides your destructive plight Of lethal payload hurled with might O Trebuchet O Trebuchet How graceful is your swing arm — Image: Scale model trebuchet in the Exhibition of Catapults
Image: Glass City River Wall, courtesy of Urban Sight, Inc. Glass City River Wall (a haibun) Destination: Toledo, Ohio, USA. Many cities have an easily recognizable landmark — the one that sets it apart from all other cities on the planet. Toledo, Ohio, nicknamed the Glass City, has such a landmark. However, historically, this landmark
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42 Days On The Iberian Peninsula A picture a day from our 2021 self-guided tour of the Iberian Peninsula. The image featured above was our planned route (overnight stops identified with a red circle). Our plan had us flying into Barcelona, and week later flying to Granada. At Granada we rented a car and followed
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The House Where I Grew Up I wasn’t born in this house but I got there as fast as I could arriving when just two months old it’s the house where I grew up This nice home in Hampton Park helped nurture my adolescence days that upstairs window on the right is where I slept
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I Don’t Have An Accent – You Do Do the people from Toledo have an accent? Do they speak with a brogue or come across plain? I’m referring to the Ohio town on Lake Erie, not the famous place and former capital of Spain. To us it was natural or the Midwestern accent, championed by
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The Pink House — an earliest memory haibun “We’re going to the pink house” was music to my ears, and to this day, it evokes my earliest childhood memories. I was fortunate to have both sets of my grandparents living in my town, and I’m guessing it was much easier for my parents to communicate
Guess My Hometown My hometown is neither little nor big See if you can guess it, now on with this gig No need to look far and no need to squint Just pay attention to all of my hints My town got its start as a port on the lake Where fog rolled in and
