Watching the 39th Great Forest Park Balloon Race from Art Hill as the balloons flew above the flags from "America's Heartland Remembers," made Saturday afternoon's experience very special and extremely poignant. There was a steady breeze at first causing the balloons to drift northward. Due to warnings of possible severe weather, several participants elected to…
Category: Events, Sightings
An early September weekend
This week it feels as if the day after Sunday is Thursday….the week's almost over and I am just getting to a post about last weekend's activities in the neighborhood. Yesterday morning I ran into Peter Franzen, the dapper Director of Development for the Children's Educational Alliance located at 4742A McPherson. When I mentioned I…
World Chess Hall of Fame Opens
The grand opening of the World Chess Hall of Fame at 4652 Maryland Avenue occurred last Thursday evening and a guesstimated crowd of 400 or so shared in the celebration. Among those in attendance were a celebrated group of inductees, chess-world dignitaries from around the globe, public officials (Lewis Reed, President of the Board of…