2 teenagers arrested in killing of 16-year-old. Two of them get a life in prison and the other goes to the after life. (
BOMB
Belonging to a retired Deputy John Decker,
River Rage
Dozens of emergency workers jammed the usually quiet two-lane road, two missing boys are presumed dead, “We’re grateful to have the kids we still got, and we just want our baby out of the water.” (
Ups and Downs
More bad news sends Wall Street reeling, jobless rate grows to 12 year high, Barbie maker to cut 1,200 positions and Fidelity to cut 1,300 jobs this month. However, premium services boost DirecTV and profits increase for Adidas. (Herald, 11/7/2008)
REMAINS
It took 44 years, but military officials have finally found the remains of a member of the Army Air Corps whose bomber went down over
On Thursday, November 6, 2008, I had the privilege of listening to an author by the name of Kit Bakke. She talked about her book "Miss Alcott's E-mail". The book is about a correspondence between Kit Bakke from the present time and a Civil War era woman named Louisa May Alcott. Mrs. Bakke was inspired to write about Louisa because their lives were similar. Both were activist in some ways, both were nurses, and both women wanted to contribute to try to make a change. The hour or so of time was spent talking about three topics, Louisa's World, Kit's World, and the Writer's world. The one thing that struck me about Louisa was during the Women's Suffrage, she was the first ever woman from her area/town to register to vote for a school board election. Also the fact that she grew up in the neighborhood, or practically neighbors with many great literary minds like Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne she became a writer herself. In fact they were all close family friends. She also had to deal with mercury poisoning. With the life of Kit Bakke being a political activist (Vietnam War) ba
ck in the 1960's, she accumulated 400 pages of FBI memo. (I would say she was a pretty important person for the FBI to have that many pages about you.) Writer's world--She talked about how she came to be an author and what inspired her to write about Louisa. Mrs. Bakke learned to love her country instead of fight with it when September 11, 2001 happened. She finished the session with reading a sample from her book and answering questions from a room full of students and professors.
