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SCIENCE, HISTORY, OREGON’S BOOMER BLOGGER

November 15, 2016 by

Boomerpdx: Where science and history collide.   Science and history carry the weight of understanding our common roots. First science, then history. Why? The early people didn’t read or write. By the time their remains were discovered in the fossil strata enough people made the connections. Look at those skulls. Do you see a Darth […]

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FOX BROADCASTING NEWT’S PAIN

October 26, 2016 by

Did Fox Broadcasting sic Megyn Kelly on Newt Gingrich? What happens when a legendary Ladies’ Man meets his match? Fox Broadcasting just answered the question. What we learned was some former has-beens need better handling. Who goes on a ‘friendly’ network, like Fox Broadcasting, and alienates the audience? If I wanted to see a sagging […]

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WIFE BOSS FROM 1950 TO 2016

September 14, 2016 by

Did Fifties women even listen? Everyone’s got advice on what they don’t know about. They connect dots, paint pictures, and still can’t make you can’t see it. Anytime you reach into recent history, you’re showing stuff with easy proofs, references, sources. Real easy, like millions of pictures, documents, oral histories. Especially with women’s history, a […]

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MOST HISTORIC LUNCH COUNTER IN AMERICA

August 18, 2016 by

When you claim your place it becomes an historic lunch counter. This historic lunch counter is big history, and big history goes into the Smithsonian. The American History section shows the Greensboro historic lunch counter in its full glory. Put yourself in the same place and wonder what you’d do.

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HISTORY ROAD CHALLENGES FROM BOOMERPDX

August 17, 2016 by

The current state of history road challenges. Westies, people living beyond the Mississippi, and beyond the Great Divide in the Rockies, live with problems of modern America, along with the rash of chain stores you can’t escape. If a town like Staunton, Virginia, like most towns in Virginia, have centuries of history behind them, why […]

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THOMAS WOLFE STYLE WITH ASHEVILLE LAUNDRY

August 13, 2016 by

What is Thomas Wolfe Style? Keep reading. Here in Thomas Wolfe’s hometown, I mean Asheville, as much a home as he ever had since he liked to keep moving, I’m doing laundry at the Dixieland Laundry on a Friday afternoon. From the looks of things I’m probably the only washer headed back to Grove Park […]

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HACKED EMAILS OF HISTORY

July 7, 2016 by

A greater truth from hacked emails. History is full of misunderstandings and mistakes from people on all sides. They didn’t start out making mistakes on purpose, but the results speak for themselves. Communication has always been an interpretive issue, like facial expression, tone, and body language through email. It doesn’t happen, but we don’t stop […]

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THE COMMAND VOICE

May 31, 2016 by

You know it forever if you’ve heard the Command Voice. The voice of leadership is the Command Voice. You follow instructions better when it comes from that place. If you joined the Gerald Ford Army of 1974 and did basic at Fort Ord, you heard the command voice, you heard General Patton outline what to […]

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HISTORY, OREGON HISTORY

May 18, 2016 by

You could walk by this building on NW Everett and just keep walking. Nothing to see here, just a worn out facade in a beat down part of Portland with chips and stains. A couple of radiator shops across the street complete the view. If there was anything special about it, there wasn’t a sign, […]

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BABY BOOMER WEDDING HISTORY

March 19, 2016 by

Like most history, baby boomer wedding history has at least two sides. Just the words baby boomer wedding history pops up the 1960’s classic image of the Woodstock couple standing in the mud. Or the times I best manned my brothers’ weddings in the 70’s and they co-best manned mine in the 80’s. Three decades […]

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