When Tom’s alarm rang at 6:00am, I was as excited as a youngster on his or her Little League team’s Opening Day. And for good reason – there wasn’t a cloud in the sky on Tuesday July 8, 2025 and…
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326: ON A LONG AND LONESOME HIGHWAY, WEST OF OMAHA
Shortly after Tom’s alarm went off in our hotel room in North Platte, Nebraska at 6:00am on Monday July 7, 2025, I heard my photographer’s wife, Vicki, ask her husband what was on his agenda for the day. I nearly…
325: OH, GIVE ME A HOME, WHERE BUFFALO BILL ROAMED
My photographer’s alarm rang at 6:00am on Sunday July 6, 2025, and the second day of our trip was about to begin in West Branch, Iowa. The first site of the day, however, would be visited by Tom and me…
324: THE ROAD TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BROUGHT ME BACK TO HOOVERVILLE
It had been a little over three months since my last trip, which was a two-day adventure to Rutherford B. Hayes’ Spiegel Grove in Fremont, Ohio with my photographer, his wife Vicki, and Tom’s two granddaughters Reese and Brooke Fiscelli.…
323: A HISTORY-LOVIN’ TEN-YEAR-OLD SPENT SPRING BREAK WITH RUTHERFORD B. HAYES AND ME
Four months and seven days ago, my photographer and I returned from our final trip of 2024. Now we have a new notion, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all bobble heads are created equal. The world…
322: OUR LATEST ‘HAIL TO THE CHIEF’ SHOW FEATURED A VERY TRICKY DICK – NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
When my photographer and I went back to the GBS Studio in Port Huron to record our latest episode of Hail to the Chief, I didn’t realize I would be in the presence of some very controversial bobble heads. Each…
321: EVERYTHING’S BIG IN TEXAS, INCLUDING JOHNSON, ON ‘HAIL TO THE CHIEF’
My photographer and I don’t hesitate to admit that Lyndon B. Johnson is not one of our favorite Presidents, even though he accomplished some incredible things while in office. And while our tribute to our 36th President paled in comparison…
320: I MADE AN APPEARANCE ON ANOTHER SHOW CALLED ‘LIVING EXPONENTIALLY’
On December 1, 2024, my photographer received an invitation for the two of us to appear on a Blue Water Healthy Living show called ‘Living Exponentially‘, which was hosted by Eileen Tesch. It almost seemed like we were transported back…
319: THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD OF THE GARFIELD TRAIL LED US TO THE WIZARD OF MENTOR FARM
My photographer’s wife was behind the wheel of our Jeep Grand Cherokee, and I was inside the padded camera case in the back seat alongside Tom’s granddaughter, Reese Fiscelli, when we left the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in…
318: A TEN-YEAR-OLD’S LOVE FOR HISTORY, AND SQUIRRELS, BECAME ENRICHED AT LAWNFIELD
My photographer was up and at ’em by the dawn’s early light on Saturday morning November 16. 2024. From my position alongside the television set in our room at the Holiday Inn Express in Mentor, Ohio, I watched as Tom…