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.
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
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.