Roger Peterson was born and raised in Alta, Iowa, and earned his private pilot’s license in 1954, just after graduating from high school. Four years later, he got his commercial pilot’s certificate and was quickly hired by Dwyer’s Flying Service in Mason City, Iowa. Mason City was just a short drive from where Roger and …
The new Illustration Friday challenge word is “shiny”. It was summer in Philadelphia in the early 1980s. I was scooping ice cream on South Street to help pay my tuition for art school. Bubblegum pop radio station WIFI had just shaken up their format, re-emerging as “I92 – Rock of the 80s”. As disco was …
This week’s Monday Artday challenge word is “moldy”. Jake couldn’t remember if that plate in the back of his refrigerator was from Tuesday or Monday or October.
From her first part on the early 60s ABC soap opera The Young Marrieds, Brenda Benet became an in-demand character actress. She played roles in both top prime-time comedies and dramas in the 1960s and 70s, appearing in Mannix, Love American Style, I Dream of Jeannie, Hogan’s Heroes and many others. She even landed a part …
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “hurry”. Wendell realized he had to hurry if he didn’t want to get ripped apart by zombies miss the bus.
In 1941, Merriman Smith became the White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), a position he held until the Nixon administration. He began the tradition of closing his presidential conferences with “Thank you, Mr. President,” a practice still used by current correspondents. On November 22, 1963, Merriman Smith sat with several other reporters in …
This week’s Illustration Friday suggestion for inspiration is the word “faded”. “Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.” Gertrude Stein, 1931 In 1907, Gertrude Stein met Alice B. Toklas at the apartment of Gertrude’s brother Michael. Soon after, Gertrude and Alice became companions and lovers until Gertrude’s death in 1946. Gertrude wrote Q.E.D. …
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “sight”. The assassination of President Kennedy was a traumatic event for the generation before mine. Everyone knew where they were, what they were doing and who they were with when they heard the terrible news that the president was shot In a Dallas motorcade. It was something they would never forget. …
Andy Kaufman took the whole world for a ride. From his beginnings as a stand-up comic, Andy marched to his own beat. When he performed a short bit on the premiere episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, no one knew what to make of him… and that’s just what Andy wanted. After an introduction by …
The current Illustration Friday challenge word is “kernel”. “Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn’t pop. I’ll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.” Orville Redenbacher In 1951, 44-year old Orville Redenbacher and his partner …
