Here is the haul from the UK. Given trips where I’ve purchased three times this many recordings, this is pretty good. I’m grateful to Paul Spicer for putting me on to several of these.
Daily Archives: October 21, 2012
Return of the King
Samson the Mighty Feist has returned home from his week of vacation. The King is back. And he promptly and inevitably again rules the roost.
McGovern
The campaign of George McGovern against Richard Nixon is the first political contest I remember. I was 11 that year.
George McGovern, a good and honest man, and a Liberal who knew how to compromise in order to gain more common good, died today. May he rest in peace.
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Now, does anyone else think that 50-year-olds in 1972 looked older then than 51-year-olds do today? I don’t know, and I hope I’m correct, but I think that I look younger now than he did at the same age….. McGovern does have really good teeth; I’ll give him that.


Prime Meridian
From Greenwich, October 16, 2012: