Monthly Archives: January 2024

I try visiting another castle and go through Hell to get to Battle Creek

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After my St. Louis photo-stop, I was off to Owosso about 30 miles south and 18 miles to the east. Since the Castle Museum in Saginaw had been closed, I had more free time to travel east – away from …

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The Wonder of it all

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In my conversation with the folks on the ferry from Mackinac Island they asked me why I’d chosen to stay in Saginaw. I told them that I had two specific places I wanted to see in that city. One was …

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Was Monday an omen?

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While watching the parade of porch furniture Sunday, I began chatting with some of the folks sitting in front of me. We reconnected Monday morning at breakfast and rode the same ferry back to the mainland. They were from California …

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If you’re going to be part of a cult, make it a classic – part 2

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When I ended the previous post, I’d pointed to a few of the elements that coalesced to help give flight to SiT from its cinnamon nest of obscurity to soar through the celestial firmament reborn as a cult classic. But …

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If you’re going to be part of a cult, make it a classic- part 1

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It’s not unusual for movies and television shows to gain a group of rabid followers that we culturally deem a cult. Think of all the Comic-Cons – generally sprung from science fiction and fantasy such as Star Trek, Star Wars, …

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