This blog was originally written for the PetalumaOnline community website under the heading: Our Cyberspace for July 2005. (It is just as relevant this year, as that year.) “It’s the 4th of July weekend and I’ve been searching my brain for an appropriate theme. My mind keeps coming back to [...]
Another personal twilight moment: one that I hope will be one of "historical significance." Coincidently, it occurred the day after another event of "historical significance" in the history of our nation - the United Sates of America. Why have I repeated the use of the phrase "historical significance" four times, [...]
In today's "Dear Abby" column, a letter from a former White House aide stated that, "At 2 p.m., July Fourth, I would love nothing better than for all Americans to stop briefly and give our country a ring. On July 4, 1963, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed the ringing of [...]
Did you know that on the last Wednesday of each month, from 10:320 am until Noon at the Historical Museum, there is an informal conversation group known as the SAGES of Petaluma? This group of Sincere, Active, Gracious, and Energetic Senior citizens has been gathering for over three years to reflect [...]
Yesterday’s Press Democrat printed a great article about local examples of how small towns in Sonoma County celebrate our nation’s independence. Unfortunately, missing from the description of six other towns; Petaluma – my favorite river town – was missing. For the record, here is the story of our “Bell Ringing” [...]
Although our Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4th, the first public reading did not take place until July 8 in Philadelphia Independence Square. Twice that day, the Declaration was read to cheering crowds and pealing church bells. I wonder what these words - We hold these truths to [...]
We all know what national holiday is coming up - don't we? Yes, indeed, it was on July 4th, in 1776, when our Second Continental Congress, after weeks of debate and modifications, adopted our Declaration of Independence. Nine of the 13 colonies approved the document, two voted "no," one [...]
Wow! See what happens when you take a few days off. You return home full of vim and vigor - also huff, puff and fluff. (Oh, I forgot. Those "names" were given away - on a silver platter - to Frank's "Evel Twins." Regular readers of Petaluma360 know what I [...]
The following blog was first published on July 4, 2006 and modified on 6-1-2015. It's a good thing I decided to change my mind and not "take the day off," as stated in Bill's Blog #8. I discovered that it was not posted last night, at midnight, as planned. (Let's blame it [...]
Shhh ... don't tell anyone my secret, but here's how I can take a day off (like today, the 4th of July), but still have my daily blog record July 4, 2006 as the date posted. As I may have mentioned in a previous blog, the server for the Argus-Courier [...]