A couple things have heightened our interest recently in the 1936 Olympic Gold Medalist Jesse Owens. His 2011 statute at the track stadium named for him is featured in a couple episodes of Aerial Americaand his role in the 1936 Olympics is mentioned in The Boys in the Boatand in Unbroken. We found a geocache at his 1986 Memorial near the entrance to Ohio Stadium on The Ohio State University Campus in Columbus, Ohio then wended our way to the track stadium across the river. We’ve got the movie Race in our iTunes wish list. When we have a good wifi connection we can download and watch the movie.
We learned last night that Karen’s parents had season tickets for the 1949 OSU football season when the Buckeyes won the conference championship and went on to beat the California Golden Bears 17-14 in the Rose Bowl. Their photo album from that year includes several black and white photos of the field taken from inside Ohio Stadium.
Off the beaten path is Hampstead is the more than three hundred year old Burgh House with a fascinating history. It’s now a community center, local museum, gallery, concert venue, event space, and more open to the public four days a week. We popped over for a bite to eat and to peruse the galleries to learn a little more about Hampstead history.
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
We learned last night that Karen’s parents had season tickets for the 1949 OSU football season when the Buckeyes won the conference championship and went on to beat the California Golden Bears 17-14 in the Rose Bowl. Their photo album from that year includes several black and white photos of the field taken from inside Ohio Stadium.