New Orleans This is something I don’t want to get good at, but today we memorialized my brother, Dale, and for those interested, here were my remarks. My brother, Dale Rathke, was many things to many people. The “just the facts, ma’am” version found him born 64 years ago in Rangely, Colorado on the western …
Month: January 2015
An ACORN Memorial Orchard on the ACORN Farm
New Orleans Lady Bird Johnson gets a lot of credit for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove filled with a variety of trees along the Potomac River in Washington, D. C. There’s the AIDS Grove, a memorial to more than 1000 in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. More than a thousand redwood forest groves …
Good Karma Points
New Orleans A robber with a long beard was so brazen in the New Orleans French Quarter that he simply walked into the gallery and walked out with a painting valued at $250,000 by the late Cajun painter, George Rodrigue, famous for his Blue Dog works. The next night a band, Stereo Fire Empire, leaving …