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how high the moon...

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  how high the moon...                                          lewis and hamilton, 1940   So, your opportunity to try out for the Olympics back in '72 was quashed by the only injury of your career?  How did that happen?        The Olympic Trials were coming up and I was all set to try out,  Mike Hanna, Noblesville (Indiana) High School Girls Pole Vault coach recounted .  The Top 3 are taken and I had cleared 17 feet which would have qualified me.  A few days before the trials, I was practicing and had a bad vault and landed on what's called the front porch of the landing pit.  I caught my right foot on the edge of the pit and a shoe spike caught the mat and turned my ankle around.      HUH?  What's up with that?    How ironic.   And, that was your only injury in all your pole vaulting day...

encore performances #5...

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encore performances #5...    A large part of my second Encore Performance is talking to other people to find out what keeps them interested in life after retirement and then document those findings.  This is the fifth post featuring some of those interviews which were conducted last May.     Interviewing people has been a lifelong passion originating in my earliest broadcast days and lasting all 36 years while in that field.     Following a broadcast career, teaching was my first Encore Performance and it provided a 17 year hiatus from participating in active broadcast experiences.  However, writing this blog has afforded me the opportunity to set new goals and interviewing interesting people is at the top of that list.    After a certain age, most of us want to remain relevant and functional in an increasingly changing world.  One example of constant turnover is music.  Some of us find it demanding to keep abreast of current...

get me memphis tennessee....

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 ... get me memphis, tennessee...                                                                         chuck berry, 1959              This all got started when Kim and I took our son who had just been born to Memphis in August of 1980 to attend an Elvis memorabilia show, Butch Polston told me.     Butch and his wife, Kim, own B and K Enterprises in Charlestown, Indiana.   B and K has the exclusive rights to reproduce costumes with the unique designs worn by entertainer Elvis Presley, but their story goes far beyond just those costumes.  It's really about how hard work and ambition can pay off.        We were basically newlyweds and didn't have two nickels to rub together, he added .     How did going to a collec...