Dick Fosbury, Whose Fosbury Flop Changed High Jumping Forever, Dies at 76
Great read: The Wizard of Foz
Q&A with author Bob Welch in the January, 2020 OTC Newsletter.
Welch brought Fosbury to Eugene for a presentation/talk/q&a. Terrific! I have the autographs of Fosbury and Welch in my copy of The Wizard of Foz.
How many Americans have gone sub four? Review
100 American women have gone sub 4:30.
Your $57 contribution will put another filbert tree in the ground. Over 4000 new trees will complete the project.
99% of the U.S. hazelnut/filbert crop is produced in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The Oregon crop represents between 3.5% of the world hazelnut crop.
We have some historic , untended, still producing filbert trees in our yard.
Books enjoyed in February. Five favorites with astericks.
A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson*
Mencken: The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
My Life As Author And Editor by H.L. Mencken*
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens*
Good For A Girl by Lauren Fleshman
Ellis Island & Other Stories by Mark Helprin
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin*
Children & Other Wild Animals by Brian Doyle
How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B.Nuland*
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
Stoner by John Williams
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
– Desiderius Erasmas
Is your city in the top 25 of the most rat-infested in the United States? Consider
Los Angeles is #2! I was born and raised there for the first 15 years of my life. Worked there from 1974 to 2011. It’s difficult to imagine it worse than New York City where I lived and worked from 1971 to 1973.
Possibly drugs and crappy government to blame?
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