January 21, 2011
January 21st, 2011 by admin
Good chilly morning from Collegeville,
The car thermometer read 22 degrees below zero this morning. That is cold. They say that this will not last and that we may hit 30 degrees above next week. We have already picked up 32 minutes of daylight since the Winter Solstice, so there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Fifty years ago yesterday, John F. Kennedy spoke the words, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Although that is the most often repeated portion of his inaugural speech, there were many other very memorable portions. I Googled “John F Kennedy inaugural” and I was able to listen to the first few minutes online. Finally, I went to Amazon and ordered a DVD that promised to contain the entire speech. The saddest thing is that only 1,035 days later he was shot and killed in Dallas.
Last night HBO broadcast a new film tracing JFK’s life with a lot of home movies and thankfully they left out those awful images that were shown on TV over and over in November of 1963. They did show 2 year old John John saluting his father’s casket. And now we have Tucson. All we can do is to try and help these folks before they set up for the assassination attempt.
On a lighter note, the wonderful teenage fiddler Catie Jo has been invited to join the cast of A Prairie Home Companion in Morris on the U of M campus on February 19th. You can still get tickets by going online. Northrop Ticket Office is handling the ticket sales. There is a “Pretty Good” reception in the campus Student Center from 2 PM until 4 PM. The show starts at 4:45 sharp. “No Late Seating”
This week the show is back at The Fitzgerald Theater and Garrison is back at the helm. I thought that Sara Watkins did a pretty good job hosting last week, but it was not the same without Garrison as the host. Guests on this weeks show include Vocal Essence under director Phillip Brunelle along with Andra Suchy. Enjoy the show and I hope to see you at Morris.
“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” John F. Kennedy 1/20/1961
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