Appalachia---April 13, 2008
The big news this week---my paper is going to be published in the July-August issue of The Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery. This is a main stream podiatry journal and is the journal of the the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. Ironically, I can't afford a subscription to the journal that is publishing my paper! That's just too funny! Luckily, our school library subscribes.
Uncle Jim, Aunt Marge, and I went to Asheville, North Carolina yesterday. Asheville is about an hour southeast of Johnson City. We went to the boyhood home of Thomas Wolfe, an important 20th Century American writer. He is most famous for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel. The is sort of a fictionalized, but autobiographical, account of this experiences as a young boy growing up in a boarding house his mother owned. His parents had a very volatile relationship and young Thomas lived with his mother at the boarding house while his brothers and sisters lived with their father at the family residence a few blocks away. We took a tour of the boarding home which was very interesting. The boarding house was called the Old Kentucky Home which was named by a previous owner originally from Kentucky.
Here is a virtual tour of the Old Kentucky Home.
Here is an MSN Virtual Earth map to put things in perspective. Click on "Bird's Eye View" for the best result.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with our visit to Asheville yesterday, but Asheville has a minor league (A) affiliate for the Colorado Rockies known as the Asheville Tourists. I have posted this before, but it's worth seeing again. Watch Asheville Tourist manager Joe Mikulik go bananas!
Here is a picture of Kirsten at her first tennis match. All junior varsity matches are doubles. She and her partner Gabby did manage to win one game within the set but could not overcome the experience of the older girls they were playing. Kirsten and Gabby are freshmen and their opposition were juniors. Gabby is not Kirsten's regular partner--her regular partner could not participate this particular day.
Caleb has only had one baseball game so far. The game yesterday was canceled due to snow. That's right, SNOW. Caleb has historically been a middle infielder, but is being called upon to play third base and to pitch. Looks like he's pulling ahead of the pack in the area of arm strength.
Anyway, he came on in long relief after the starter pitched himself into a jam. Caleb took the mound in the top of the second with the bases loaded and nobody out. He pitched 2 innings, allowed no hits and struck out 5 batters. Great job. Here is a picture of him.
That's all for now. Only five more weeks until I go home.
Uncle Jim, Aunt Marge, and I went to Asheville, North Carolina yesterday. Asheville is about an hour southeast of Johnson City. We went to the boyhood home of Thomas Wolfe, an important 20th Century American writer. He is most famous for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel. The is sort of a fictionalized, but autobiographical, account of this experiences as a young boy growing up in a boarding house his mother owned. His parents had a very volatile relationship and young Thomas lived with his mother at the boarding house while his brothers and sisters lived with their father at the family residence a few blocks away. We took a tour of the boarding home which was very interesting. The boarding house was called the Old Kentucky Home which was named by a previous owner originally from Kentucky.
Here is a virtual tour of the Old Kentucky Home.
Here is an MSN Virtual Earth map to put things in perspective. Click on "Bird's Eye View" for the best result.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with our visit to Asheville yesterday, but Asheville has a minor league (A) affiliate for the Colorado Rockies known as the Asheville Tourists. I have posted this before, but it's worth seeing again. Watch Asheville Tourist manager Joe Mikulik go bananas!
Here is a picture of Kirsten at her first tennis match. All junior varsity matches are doubles. She and her partner Gabby did manage to win one game within the set but could not overcome the experience of the older girls they were playing. Kirsten and Gabby are freshmen and their opposition were juniors. Gabby is not Kirsten's regular partner--her regular partner could not participate this particular day.
Caleb has only had one baseball game so far. The game yesterday was canceled due to snow. That's right, SNOW. Caleb has historically been a middle infielder, but is being called upon to play third base and to pitch. Looks like he's pulling ahead of the pack in the area of arm strength.
Anyway, he came on in long relief after the starter pitched himself into a jam. Caleb took the mound in the top of the second with the bases loaded and nobody out. He pitched 2 innings, allowed no hits and struck out 5 batters. Great job. Here is a picture of him.
That's all for now. Only five more weeks until I go home.
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