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Studio 1050...: Moonshine 101: Glen Thunder

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Moonshine 101: Glen Thunder. As most of my friends know, I enjoy whiskey. My faves are the corn whiskeys—usually Jack Daniel's. But also some bourbons—but I’ll also have a glass of Jameson's Irish. Or even a single malt Scotch. Once in a while. (Thanks, John! Since moonshine obviously has been around for centuries and can be widely variable in flavor, strength and quality, I figured it might be a good idea to do a little online research instead of buying the first one I ran across. And speaking of roots,...

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Studio 1050...: December 2009

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How do you pronounce "Luebker"? I was talking to my cousin a couple of weeks back. Somehow or other we got around to talking about our grandparents and great grandparents, and I was surprised to hear him pronounce my last name as "lip-ker.". T surprise me- it's the way my dad always pronounced it and the way I pronounced it up until I went off to college, and decided I'd start pronouncing it the way it looks. However, my guess is that my immigrant ancestor (Johann Hinrich Lübker) pronounced the sharpened...

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Studio 1050...: October 2008

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Wow, the gaps between posts here have gotten longer and longer. Last time I wrote anything we were still up in Michigan. Now we're enjoying an Arizona Halloween with the temperature in the high eighties. One thing we've noticed is that no one puts out jack-o-lanterns early the way they do up north. With the weather as warm as it its here, they'd probably spoil pretty fast, and while rotting pumpkins WOULD be scary, I'm not sure we'd want to deal with the insect life they might attract. Links to this post.

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Studio 1050...: November 2009

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A mystery I probably can't solve. Earlier today I was scanning some old family photos. I took one of my great uncle, Royal Hoefler, out of its frame and behind it I found an apparently uncashed, but endorsed check for 10 cents made out to A.W. Dunn from the assistant Treasurer of the United States in Chicago, Ill. So presumably the check was issued before 1918. So why Royal- or some other member of the family- would be in possession of that check, why it was endorsed (but not cashed) and what the connect...

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Studio 1050...: November 2008

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Our 2008 Christmas card. This year may actually turn out to be a little different. It's still November (barely), and while we haven't bought any Christmas cards, we nevertheless have one ready to go. It's not store-bought, though, it's a reproduction – or maybe "adaptation" is a better word – I made of a Christmas card from 1943. Let me back up a bit and explain. What could I do? I did that a couple of months back when I saw an auction for a lot that contained a small pile of Christmas cards dating from ...

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Studio 1050...: July 2011

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BTW, about the new blog header. That's a July 4, 1912 photo, looking west up Chestnut Street from near Main Street in my old home town of Stillwater, Minnesota. And yes, I'm in it, over on the right. Links to this post. Showing a little more good will at Goodwill. Dan said he planned to pull the video from the security cameras at that store and see if any of them captured the incident. Then the store manager and/or HR folks at GoCA will make a decision about the extent of any disciplinary action that...

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Studio 1050...: June 2011

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Not much good will at Goodwill. On Sunday afternoon, my wife dropped off some boxes of children’s toys at the Goodwill store located at 5263 South Power Road in Mesa, Arizona. These were items our daughters, now grown, had treasured and saved throughout their childhoods, items we’d spent the last two days digging out of various boxes in a hot garage. We hoped that through a Goodwill store, these toys might bring the same kind of joy to someone else’s little girls that they’d brought to ours. Contained a ...

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Studio 1050...: From the desert to the prairie

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From the desert to the prairie. Since Kathleen and I met and decided to share an apartment back in 1989, we've moved eight times. In a couple of weeks we'll be doing that for the ninth time. It's kind of ironic- we met when both of us were in government service, and one of the reasons we left government service was because we didn't want to move every few years. Turns out it was less the jobs than who we are. And because we were able to have that kind of comfortable chat, I also found out he's got a fift...

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Studio 1050...: February 2011

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Just missed being in the stories. A quick break from my genealogical ramblings:. A few weeks back, I was reading the latest Stephen Hunter "Bob Lee Swagger" novel, Dead Zero. And discovered that some of the climactic scenes take place very near where I lived in Washington, DC back in the late eighties, on P Street NW, up near Georgetown University. The action follows down P Steet, from the edge of the university grounds, past my old apartment and out onto Wisconsin Avenue. Sandford did- he described the ...