The Gainesville Sun (FLA) ran an article recently about a family sleigh that my father and his wife are having restored. [article here…] The sleigh in question belonged to my great grandfather, Benjamin Herr, for whom I was named. He used it during winter months to commute to and from his job as a schoolteacher …
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Dec 03 2007
Tanoshii 2008 Calendar
In addition to the usual holiday treats like seeing friends and family, good food and general good cheer, folks in Winston-Salem have another thing we look forward to each holiday season: the Tanoshii Chinese restaurant’s annual calendar. This year’s theme is the Beijing Olympics and you can see that each animal not only corresponds to …
Nov 11 2007
Old Skool: Stately Thunderchild Manor
Way back, lo many years ago, before I was a starving artist, I pursued even less-green pastures and was a starving musician. I, along with two of the other three members of the band I was in, Come on Thunderchild, purchased a circa-1910s house in Cornelius, NC (known among us locals as “Corntown”), which we …
Nov 01 2007
SPX Finds – pt 1
Well, not really finds, I guess. Here’s the deal: If you’ve ever been an exhibitor at SPX, you know that people will often just walk up to you and give you stuff. Some of this turns out to be good, some of it terrible, and a lot of it somewhere in the middle. Anyway, since …
Oct 15 2007
17 1/2 Hours at Bojangles’
Be sure to check out Paul Friedrich’s blog tomorrow, the 16th, as he’ll be participating in an Suburban Xtreme Endurance Event in Raleigh, spending an entire day in a Bojangle’s restaurant. Here’s the skinny from the press release: October 16, 2007 Paul Friedrich and Bryan Pack will attempt to spend an entire 17 1/2 hour …
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