Priscilla and I had a very nice weekend as we travelled north. We went to a “Celebration of Life” for my brother Jeff who passed away in January.
We left Saturday morning and drove to Danville, VT near St. Johnsbury. The GPS said 4-and-a-half hours but that didn’t take into account that it was race weekend in New Hampshire. It got a little crowded outside of Concord.
We continued north through Franconia Notch. I am always amazed by how beautiful it is there and it was such a clear day.
We were a little less than an hour late but enjoyed the day with family at Joe’s Pond in Danville. My brother had lived there for the past 14 years.
We told stories, looked at photos and listened to John Denver music (his favorite).
It was a nice day.
We stayed the night in St. Johnsbury and then left early Sunday morning and actually made the trip home in 3 hours and 45 minutes!
SO WHAT’S GOING ON?
My Sunday column was about remembering how you met your friends. If you missed it, you can find it here.
DVR ALERT
Set your DVR to record (or watch it live) a Ted Williams documentary on PBS tonight.
The hour-long film, directed and produced by Nick Davis and narrated by Jon Hamm, premieres Monday at 9 p.m.
Davis was quoted as saying, “Doing this film was eye-opening in a lot of was about who he was and what made him tick. Yes, he was certainly difficult sometimes and had challenging personal relationships. But he also had a good heart and did some tremendously admirable things in his life. Getting the chance to paint this rich, complicated man’s portrait was really fulfilling in a lot of ways.’’
WHY COULDN’T I BE ASSIGNED TO THIS STORY?
While a field brimming with hundreds of golden retrievers sounds more fantasy than reality, that’s exactly what came to pass last week at Guisachan Estate in Tomich, Scotland.
The Golden Retriever Club of Scotland organized the gathering to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the breed. It was held at Lord Tweedmouth’s former estate, where the golden retriever was first bred in 1868, and well over 300 golden retrievers (and their owners) showed up to commemorate the special event.
“It’s such a popular breed,” Doreen McGugan, chair of the Golden Retriever Club of Scotland, told TODAY. “And it was the 150th anniversary, which is very special.”
THIS LOOKS GOOD
NEARBY FILM FEST
Cape Cod’s oldest film festival returns this week for its 27th year with a lineup of almost 50 feature-length films and more than 100 shorts to be screened over the course of the week.
The Woods Hole Film Festival begins on July 28 and runs through Aug. 4 with screenings at five different venues in Woods Hole and Falmouth largely centered around topics exploring music and science.
Five feature-length films and 28 shorts will have their world premiere at the film festival, and more than half the films in the festival were submitted by first-time filmmakers hailing from all over the globe.
Tickets and more information about the festival can be found at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org.
ASSAULT WITH A SALTY WEAPON
A 13-year-old boy was charged with assault after he fired a McDonald’s french fry through a straw and it hit a woman’s face.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly used the straw to launch the chip at the woman’s head at a McDonald’s west of London. This then sparked a fight between three of his friends and four young women which spilled outside.
The boy was then arrested but was let go when he accepted a police caution. His friends, who are all aged 13, were also charged. One pleaded guilty, one was handed a caution and another is awaiting trial.
FOOTBALL!
Field Yates of ESPN tweets:
This is the final week without an NFL or college football game until after the Super Bowl. A win for all of us.
PERHAPS YOU SAW THE VIDEO
The video caused a major stir on social media, prompting the Cubs to hook the kid up with a signed Javier Baez ball.
But if you saw the Cubs tweets – the boy can be seen holding two balls, one of which is clearly game-used.
Sure enough, the guy actually did hook the kid up with a game-used ball earlier in the game. That would have been enough to make the kid’s day, but then the backlash against the guy in the sunglasses landed him an autgraph as well.
That’s good news for the kid but not for the sunglasses guy. He was nice to the kid earlier.
ON THIS DAY……
1829 American William Austin Burt patents the “typographer,” later known as the typewriter.
1904 Ice cream cone created during St Louis World Fair – the first cone reputedly by Charles E. Menches.
1947 The first (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
1973 US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation.
JULY 23RD IS….
NATIONAL VANILLA ICE CREAM DAY
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