Quite a few sights caught my camera's eye the evening we attended the Westerners Corral meeting at the railroad museum. I remember the "speeder" that ran up and down the NP tracks and the section crew that rode it. I can't remember if it looked exactly like this model, but that is what this is. They have a couple of the little flatbed cars that hooked behind this, too.
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The CBS Sunday Morning show featured Glen Campbell on his last concert tour. It's his last because, if nobody has heard, he started developing Alzheimer's Disease a few years ago and it has progressed far enough along that he and his handlers think it's time to quit. He is still quite conversant and plays and sings fairly well. He seems to be resigned to his fate and on stage he made some little flub, then said, "If you do things perfect, they expect it that way all the time." Good philosophy, I'd say. Campbell always was a favorite entertainer of mine. Between him and John Denver, I don't know which I like the better.
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Neil Armstrong, the first moonwalker, passed away a few days ago. He was a well respected man and was said never to have taken advantage of his celebrity by earning "hero" money from it. Besides, he refused to sign autographs if he thought others were going to profit from it. He remained a professional working man all his life. He said something to the effect, "I guess we'd all like to be remembered, not just for the fireworks, but for the ledger of our work." Rest in peace.
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I visited the archive library in the Heritage Center again last week to look for a factoid from the 1923 Sheldon newspaper. On the page I located it on, there were a few examples of the kind of jokes the paper saw fit to print at that time: The average man can stretch his arms about five and one-half feet. Nature provides for everything. That is ample to illustrate the size of the average fish we catch ....... Nephew - What I want to get into, uncle, is some line where one can make a quick turnover. Uncle - Well, you might get a job frying griddle cakes .......
