Dear Don:
Interesting, I am remiss, I can't recall "Now, Voyager" but I could tell you where Claude Raines went, to Sandwich, New Hampshire, where his last wife was from where he's buried. He remarked he went somewhere as the "Invisible Man" and found out it was true! Or something like that the locals didn't treat him like a cross between a notorious Nazi from South America or the French Vichy officer in "Casablanca" in which of course, now one tells the musician to "play it again Sam" but that somehow came out of the film, not in the film.
Voyager I and II were interesting flybys of Jupiter and after the Viking landing on Mars while also at Stony Brook, important events when studying Astronomy and "Planetary Atmospheres" which believe it or not they called me in to say I hadn't enough science credits for the the B.A. in Anthropology after graduation then added them up, oops yes you do. I was out in the middle of Pennsylvania. We also study archeo-astronomy in North America and there are many examples of how earlier Americans were astronomically more literate than us, though in a different way. We in anthropology / archaeology were studying El Nino (and La Nina, from Peru) when he was still in diapers!
Congratulation on your daughter's Med school prospects. My cousin Dr. Nicholas Cirillo passed away a couple of months ago (last haircut) down in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina he was only in his forties leaving his young son and his wife's previous kids. He was a D.O. and M.D. Doctor of Osteopathy which started in Ohio after the Civil War, and in some places you can find more D.O.s than M.D.'s in the phone book.
Wow, the Marines desks! "Top Gun" must have worked they finally got those old ones out. Interesting work. I haven't had any, last was for Landmark Archaeology in Altamont, NY near Middletown, NY where the photographer who stages those huge groups of naked people photos was born.
In 4th or 5th grade our Wood Road class went to see the musical "Oliver!" with Mr. Hubbard (taught both) a Notre Dame grad who sold World Book Encyclopedia, his family associated with the Big White Duck, (moved into a park, once was a drive-in store) or duck farms of Riverhead. Then we saw "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" with Mr. Lafayette's band at Dawnwood Junior High (after I made myself a "junior" at Catholic Confirmation) and can't recall others, though have been to hundreds of concerts. Here's an interesting site I was looking at (once a member of the "Visual and Performing Arts College" "College B" in the University at Buffalo) that's a listing of musicals: www.musicals101.com great site.
I would give an arm or a leg for a Micah Hawkins' score and libretto ("Pied Piper of Catherine Slip," in NY History journal article) for "Saw Mill River or a Yankee Trick, As It Were Willom" said to be the first successful American opera from a relation of William Sydney Mount, a Setauket, NY American genre painter and where other notables in the arts "once" were (e.g., "Foghat", aka "Savoy Brown" the last band to play the Atrium at the World Trade Center before 9/11/01. Remember that night one of them sat in at Chesters in Setauket with the country "Poco" like band "Stars"?), and perhaps performed in "blackface" (burnt cork). He died of a fever at 44 and as was the custom in the time of cholera, many things were burned.
George Myers
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