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Saturday, June 10, 2017July 2; Mark Normand, July 5 through 8. Call 216-736-4242 or visit www.pickwickandfrolic.com/shows/hilarities-4th-street-theatre.Playhouse Square: 1501 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, presents Paula Poundstone, Oct. 20. Call 216-241-6000, or visit www.playhousesquare.com.Sandusky State Theatre: 107 Columbus Ave., Sandusky, presents Derrick Eason, Ken Bergman, June 9. Call 419-626-1950 or visit www.sanduskystate.com.Concerts Agora Theatre & Ballroom: 5000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, presents State of Conviction, June 9; Lil Uzi Vert, June 9; Blood on the Dance Floor, June 10; Chon, June 15; Dohm, June 16; Otep, The Convalescence, One Day Waiting, June 17; Banks, June 19; At the Drive In, June 21; Fates Warning, June 22; Affiance, Nine Shrines, June 24; Miss May I, Upon a Burning Body, Kublai Khan, June 28; Ventana, June 30; Impending Lies, July 1; Punchline, July 7; Kings X, July 8; Matty B, July 9; King Lil G, July 12; Fallen Captive, July 14; Negative Approach, Bloodclot, July 26; The Shins, July 29; Galactic Empire, Dangerkids, Aug. 3; Black Death Resurrected, Sauron, Lethal Attack, Aug. 4; Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Aug. 5; Little Ozzy (Ozzy Osbourne tribute), Aug. 12; Epica, Lununa Coil, Insomnium, Sept. 5; Venom Inc., Goatwhore, Toxic Holocaust, Sept. 7; VNV Nation, Sept. 21; Gogol Bordello, Sept. 25; Ghost Bath, Sept. 25; Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist, Polyphia, Sept. 27; Lords of Acid, Combichrist, Sept. 29; KMFDM, Ohgr, Lord of the Lost, Oct. 4. Visit www.clevelandagora.com.Akron Civic Theater: 182 S. Main St., presents Paramore, Best Coast, Oct. 15. Call 330-253-2488 or visit www.akroncivic.com.Beachland Ballroom: 15711 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, presents The Ragbirds, Shawn and Shelby, June 9; Will Hoge, Tom Evanchuck, June 10; Peter Brotzmann Duo, Taddeo-Sopko Duo, June 10; Rebecca Wohlever & The Hopewell, The Tome Katlees, Maddie Finn & The Whiskey Hollow, June 11, Bent Knee, The Village Bicycle, Axon-Neuron, June 11; Damien Jurado, Sam Goodwill, June 12; Katmaz, Brett Fromson and Jimmy Villaflor, Dylan Jones, June 12; Mary Timony Plays Helium, Noveller, June 13; Lespecial, Bypass Circuit, June 13; Myth & Company, M. Moody, June 14; Nikki Hill, June 15; Bella Sin, Noella Deville, Bee Awkard, Ivana Lyftya and more, June 16; Chris Wild, Hamilton Handshake, White Buffalo Woman, June 16; Red Rose Panic, Treespeak, Psychic Relic, Ebb N Flow, Coup De Grace, June 17; Moon Rocks, Mister Moon, Garbage Greek, June 17; Rock N/ Rummage Flea Market, June 17; The Iron Maidens, Chemkill, June 18; The Giving Tree Band, The Cerny Brothers, June 18; Selwyn Birchwood, Austin Walkin Cane, June 20; Ghost Wolves, Duo Decibel System, Kiss Me Deadly, June 21; Ward Davis, June 22; Watershed, Brave Bones, June 22; Into the Blue, June 23; Fletchers Grove, The Cat’s Meow, June 23; The Moxies, Modernism, Twin Atomic, AJ and the Woods, Jordan Thompson, June 24; Paper Morning, Sait Light, June 24; Bloodshot Bill, Johnny and the Apple Stompers, June 25; The Lustre Kings, The Del Rios, June 26; Dustbowl Revival, Maura Rogers and The Bellows, June 27; Marshall Crenshaw Y Los StraitJackets, June 28; CFM, The Cairo Gang, June 29; CFM, The Cairo Gang, June 29; Pokey LaFarge, Hackensaw Boys, June 30; Daniel Romano, M. Ross Perkins, July 1; Jared & the Mill, Canyon Spells, July 2; Okilly Dokilly, Hostile Omish, July 3; Five Alarm Funk, July 5; Vicki Chew, Anita Herczog and Friends, July 6; Post Animal, July 7; Los Lonley Boys, July 9; Vesperteen, Spirit of the Bear, Attack Cat, July 8; Oh Pep, The Movies, July 10; Chicano Batman, Brainstory, July 11; Behold the Brave, In The Whale, July 11; The Seldom Scene, Brand New Hat, July 13; Aaron Lee Tasjan, Erica Blinn, July 13; The Deep End, July 14; Whores, Child Bite, LoPan, July 15; Levi Platero, July 16; Tristen, July 17; Waxahatchee, SnailMail, July 18; Zach Deputy, Wanyama, July 20; Whitey Morgan, July 21; Bad Bad Hats, July 21...
Monday, May 01, 2017MJ’s remains. Here Michele had a healing mental conversation with MJ. Perhaps the bright sunshine softened our grief. But nothing tempered the autopsy report of MJ’s violent death. My anger compounded my grief, and so I carry this in my wounded spirit.“Because the exact date of death cannot be determined, we are choosing March 15. The ides of March seems a fitting context.”The memorial service, 4:00 PM, Saturday, April 15, will be livestreamed from a link on hesstonmc.org. A slide show will begin at 3:30.Sharp’s obituaryMichael Sharp’s obituary was posted to Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encylopedia Online. The obituary follows.“Michael Jesse “M. J.” Sharp: Mennonite Central Committee volunteer and United Nations contract employee, was born 29 October 1982 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA to John E. Sharp (15 July 1951- ) and Michele Lynn Miller Sharp (27 March 1954- ). Michael was the middle child in a family of two daughters and one son. Michael was kidnapped 12 March 2017, together with five other persons as part of a United Nations (UN) investigation into armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On 28 March 2017 his body, along with the body of UN colleague, Zaida Catalán of Sweden, was found in a shallow grave outside the city of Kananga in the DRC’s Kasaï-Central province.Michael Sharp was raised in the home of a pastor and historian, and grew up in Mennonite centers like Harleysville, Pennsylvania, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Middlebury, Indiana and Goshen Indiana — locations where his father pastored and then served as Director of the Archives of the Mennonite Church-Goshen. His mother was a physician assistant. M. J. graduated from Bethany Christian Schools in Goshen, Indiana in 2001. He went on to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) where in 2005 he earned a BA in history, with a minor in German. He later earned a MA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany.After graduating from EMU, Sharp worked for three years with the Military Counseling Network in Germany, a project of the Deutsches Mennonitisches Friedenskomitee to serve U.S. soldiers based in Europe who sought discharge from military service for conscientious objection or other reasons. From August 2006 to early fall 2008 he was coordinator of the project.From 2012 to 2015, Michael Sharp served as Eastern Congo Coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee. This included working with other agencies, such as the Peace and Reconciliation program of the Congolese Protestant Council of Churches, a program that sent people into the forest to persuade rebels to come home. It is reported that Michael’s team persuaded 1,600 rebel soldiers to return to their homes.In 2015 M. J. began contract employment with the United Nations, serving as an Armed Groups Expert in the United Nations Group of Experts on the DRC. This group was appointed by the U.N.’s Security Council to investigate new violence in Kasaï-Central Province that began after government forces killed Kamwina Nsapu, a tribal chief and militia leader, who had resisted DRC President Jospeh Kabila. The UN Group of Experts on Congo, established in 2004, has consisted of six experts appointed by the UN secretary-general to monitor the Security Council’s sanctions regime for Congo and to propose individuals and entities to be added to the sanctions list. The experts collect and analyze information about armed group activities, their networks, arms trafficking, and those responsible for serious human rights violations.In March Sharp and his colleagues planned to document the militia’s alleged use of child soldiers, to investigate massacres of unarmed civilians by government forces, and to seek dialogue with stakeholders such as militia leaders, religious figures and civil society groups to promote peaceful solutions. M. J. was the coordinator of this group.At the time of his death, Michael Sharp’s North American base was in Albuquerque, New Mexico as part...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017Choctaws.The land eventually became a plantation owned by Vick’s son, W.H. Vick, who developed what's called the 100 cotton seed in 1843, a seed that that helped planters maximize pounds of cotton per acre and was eventually sold commercially.BILLY WATKINS: Tale of the kid who couldn't throwIn 1901, when the nearly 6,000 acres was divided among the four children, Henry Phelps became owner of the family homestead. It’s now in the hands of his grandchildren and a great-grandchild.And while some of the buildings still need to be renovated, others are ready for viewing.Among them: The general store/doll house and its thousands of occupants.The dolls were owned by Dorothy Cole Phelps, mother of Henry III and Carolyn May.“Her father and uncle owned a funeral home,” May explains. “She and her friends used to act like they were having funerals. They would bury dolls and say a prayer over them.“Later on in life, the memory of burying those dolls bothered her. She started collecting them when she was 35. She died in 2011 when she was 99. What you see here are the dolls she collected over the course of 60 years.”They sit side by side on rows of shelves. Others stare out of glass cases that were part of the store. Many look the same. But then there is the Planter’s Peanut Man, smiling at you like an old friend. There, too, are Bozo, Popeye, the Jolly Green Giant and Howdy Doody.One glass counter holds only Barbies. This is the Delta, after all, and society status matters.“Whenever people come in here, they’ll say, ‘Oh, I had a doll just like that one,’ and point,” Phelps says. “It really hits home with women of all ages.”Sprinkled among the dolls are musical instruments: A miniature piano. A snare drum. An accordion. A French horn, trumpet and trombone. A rusty harpsichord.I ask Phelps if he is sure the dolls don’t talk and play music when darkness comes and humans are...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017OAKLAND — Hundreds of firecrackers and the pounding of large Tanggu drums provided an unusual experience at the Chapel of the Chimes crematory and colombarium on April Fool’s Day.All that noise and commotion had a solemn purpose: It was part of Ching Ming, a custom thousands of years old in China, in which people honor and celebrate their deceased ancestors.The lion dancers, accompanying firecrackers, drumming and cymbals arrived in a van full of students from the San Francisco chapter of the international Yau Kung Moon martial arts organization, including several visitors from Australia.“We’re Taoists, but Buddhism was and is a major part of Chinese culture. The lion is symbolic of bowing to deities. This is a celebration time to bring in the spirits and send good luck to the dead and celebrate with them. This is a big deal,” said the group’s leader, Norman Lau.The firecrackers are about scaring away evil spirits, he said.Five representatives of the Telegraph Avenue Minh Yueh Jiu Shyh Buddhist Temple had assembled two altars...
Monday, March 27, 2017Lake DeNoon, hosting scores of family and friends on weekends. Refrigeration at the lake was a wooden chest icebox on the back porch, which the kids filled by hauling 60-80 pound ice blocks from the general store on their coaster wagon.Bob attended one- and two-room schoolhouses through the 7th grade. His dad transferred to the USDA office in Washington D.C. in 1949, where Bob’s new high school had over 1,000 students per grade. After Bob finished 9th grade, his dad took a job with what later became USAID in Bangkok, Thailand, then a sleepy town with lots of canals and few cars. The family lived in a beautiful old Thai house overlooking a canal that served as a primary thoroughfare of commerce. Bob and his brother Dave enjoyed a “gap year” from school, learning “street” language, tastes, and smells. In early 1952, they traveled 1,000 miles by train to the foothills of the Himalayas to attend Woodstock, a boarding school in northern India. The family returned to Wisconsin at the end of 1952, and Bob spent his junior year at Pulaski High School in Milwaukee. The family then moved to the Philippines for his senior year, where his dad took another job with USAID. There he met his life-long friend, Peter Harken, and they spent much of their free time sailing in Manila Bay and occasionally crewing for races. Bob often recounted sailing with Peter up to a huge aircraft carrier, part of the U.S. 7th fleet, and being invited aboard. These adventures in Asia inspired Bob’s life-long interest in travel and world cultures, and his year in the Philippines cemented his enthusiasm for sailing, an activity he continued ...
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Saturday, June 10, 2017July 2; Mark Normand, July 5 through 8. Call 216-736-4242 or visit www.pickwickandfrolic.com/shows/hilarities-4th-street-theatre.Playhouse Square: 1501 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, presents Paula Poundstone, Oct. 20. Call 216-241-6000, or visit www.playhousesquare.com.Sandusky State Theatre: 107 Columbus Ave., Sandusky, presents Derrick Eason, Ken Bergman, June 9. Call 419-626-1950 or visit www.sanduskystate.com.Concerts Agora Theatre & Ballroom: 5000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, presents State of Conviction, June 9; Lil Uzi Vert, June 9; Blood on the Dance Floor, June 10; Chon, June 15; Dohm, June 16; Otep, The Convalescence, One Day Waiting, June 17; Banks, June 19; At the Drive In, June 21; Fates Warning, June 22; Affiance, Nine Shrines, June 24; Miss May I, Upon a Burning Body, Kublai Khan, June 28; Ventana, June 30; Impending Lies, July 1; Punchline, July 7; Kings X, July 8; Matty B, July 9; King Lil G, July 12; Fallen Captive, July 14; Negative Approach, Bloodclot, July 26; The Shins, July 29; Galactic Empire, Dangerkids, Aug. 3; Black Death Resurrected, Sauron, Lethal Attack, Aug. 4; Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Aug. 5; Little Ozzy (Ozzy Osbourne tribute), Aug. 12; Epica, Lununa Coil, Insomnium, Sept. 5; Venom Inc., Goatwhore, Toxic Holocaust, Sept. 7; VNV Nation, Sept. 21; Gogol Bordello, Sept. 25; Ghost Bath, Sept. 25; Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist, Polyphia, Sept. 27; Lords of Acid, Combichrist, Sept. 29; KMFDM, Ohgr, Lord of the Lost, Oct. 4. Visit www.clevelandagora.com.Akron Civic Theater: 182 S. Main St., presents Paramore, Best Coast, Oct. 15. Call 330-253-2488 or visit www.akroncivic.com.Beachland Ballroom: 15711 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, presents The Ragbirds, Shawn and Shelby, June 9; Will Hoge, Tom Evanchuck, June 10; Peter Brotzmann Duo, Taddeo-Sopko Duo, June 10; Rebecca Wohlever & The Hopewell, The Tome Katlees, Maddie Finn & The Whiskey Hollow, June 11, Bent Knee, The Village Bicycle, Axon-Neuron, June 11; Damien Jurado, Sam Goodwill, June 12; Katmaz, Brett Fromson and Jimmy Villaflor, Dylan Jones, June 12; Mary Timony Plays Helium, Noveller, June 13; Lespecial, Bypass Circuit, June 13; Myth & Company, M. Moody, June 14; Nikki Hill, June 15; Bella Sin, Noella Deville, Bee Awkard, Ivana Lyftya and more, June 16; Chris Wild, Hamilton Handshake, White Buffalo Woman, June 16; Red Rose Panic, Treespeak, Psychic Relic, Ebb N Flow, Coup De Grace, June 17; Moon Rocks, Mister Moon, Garbage Greek, June 17; Rock N/ Rummage Flea Market, June 17; The Iron Maidens, Chemkill, June 18; The Giving Tree Band, The Cerny Brothers, June 18; Selwyn Birchwood, Austin Walkin Cane, June 20; Ghost Wolves, Duo Decibel System, Kiss Me Deadly, June 21; Ward Davis, June 22; Watershed, Brave Bones, June 22; Into the Blue, June 23; Fletchers Grove, The Cat’s Meow, June 23; The Moxies, Modernism, Twin Atomic, AJ and the Woods, Jordan Thompson, June 24; Paper Morning, Sait Light, June 24; Bloodshot Bill, Johnny and the Apple Stompers, June 25; The Lustre Kings, The Del Rios, June 26; Dustbowl Revival, Maura Rogers and The Bellows, June 27; Marshall Crenshaw Y Los StraitJackets, June 28; CFM, The Cairo Gang, June 29; CFM, The Cairo Gang, June 29; Pokey LaFarge, Hackensaw Boys, June 30; Daniel Romano, M. Ross Perkins, July 1; Jared & the Mill, Canyon Spells, July 2; Okilly Dokilly, Hostile Omish, July 3; Five Alarm Funk, July 5; Vicki Chew, Anita Herczog and Friends, July 6; Post Animal, July 7; Los Lonley Boys, July 9; Vesperteen, Spirit of the Bear, Attack Cat, July 8; Oh Pep, The Movies, July 10; Chicano Batman, Brainstory, July 11; Behold the Brave, In The Whale, July 11; The Seldom Scene, Brand New Hat, July 13; Aaron Lee Tasjan, Erica Blinn, July 13; The Deep End, July 14; Whores, Child Bite, LoPan, July 15; Levi Platero, July 16; Tristen, July 17; Waxahatchee, SnailMail, July 18; Zach Deputy, Wanyama, July 20; Whitey Morgan, July 21; Bad Bad Hats, July 21...
Monday, May 01, 2017MJ’s remains. Here Michele had a healing mental conversation with MJ. Perhaps the bright sunshine softened our grief. But nothing tempered the autopsy report of MJ’s violent death. My anger compounded my grief, and so I carry this in my wounded spirit.“Because the exact date of death cannot be determined, we are choosing March 15. The ides of March seems a fitting context.”The memorial service, 4:00 PM, Saturday, April 15, will be livestreamed from a link on hesstonmc.org. A slide show will begin at 3:30.Sharp’s obituaryMichael Sharp’s obituary was posted to Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encylopedia Online. The obituary follows.“Michael Jesse “M. J.” Sharp: Mennonite Central Committee volunteer and United Nations contract employee, was born 29 October 1982 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA to John E. Sharp (15 July 1951- ) and Michele Lynn Miller Sharp (27 March 1954- ). Michael was the middle child in a family of two daughters and one son. Michael was kidnapped 12 March 2017, together with five other persons as part of a United Nations (UN) investigation into armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On 28 March 2017 his body, along with the body of UN colleague, Zaida Catalán of Sweden, was found in a shallow grave outside the city of Kananga in the DRC’s Kasaï-Central province.Michael Sharp was raised in the home of a pastor and historian, and grew up in Mennonite centers like Harleysville, Pennsylvania, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Middlebury, Indiana and Goshen Indiana — locations where his father pastored and then served as Director of the Archives of the Mennonite Church-Goshen. His mother was a physician assistant. M. J. graduated from Bethany Christian Schools in Goshen, Indiana in 2001. He went on to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) where in 2005 he earned a BA in history, with a minor in German. He later earned a MA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany.After graduating from EMU, Sharp worked for three years with the Military Counseling Network in Germany, a project of the Deutsches Mennonitisches Friedenskomitee to serve U.S. soldiers based in Europe who sought discharge from military service for conscientious objection or other reasons. From August 2006 to early fall 2008 he was coordinator of the project.From 2012 to 2015, Michael Sharp served as Eastern Congo Coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee. This included working with other agencies, such as the Peace and Reconciliation program of the Congolese Protestant Council of Churches, a program that sent people into the forest to persuade rebels to come home. It is reported that Michael’s team persuaded 1,600 rebel soldiers to return to their homes.In 2015 M. J. began contract employment with the United Nations, serving as an Armed Groups Expert in the United Nations Group of Experts on the DRC. This group was appointed by the U.N.’s Security Council to investigate new violence in Kasaï-Central Province that began after government forces killed Kamwina Nsapu, a tribal chief and militia leader, who had resisted DRC President Jospeh Kabila. The UN Group of Experts on Congo, established in 2004, has consisted of six experts appointed by the UN secretary-general to monitor the Security Council’s sanctions regime for Congo and to propose individuals and entities to be added to the sanctions list. The experts collect and analyze information about armed group activities, their networks, arms trafficking, and those responsible for serious human rights violations.In March Sharp and his colleagues planned to document the militia’s alleged use of child soldiers, to investigate massacres of unarmed civilians by government forces, and to seek dialogue with stakeholders such as militia leaders, religious figures and civil society groups to promote peaceful solutions. M. J. was the coordinator of this group.At the time of his death, Michael Sharp’s North American base was in Albuquerque, New Mexico as part...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017Choctaws.The land eventually became a plantation owned by Vick’s son, W.H. Vick, who developed what's called the 100 cotton seed in 1843, a seed that that helped planters maximize pounds of cotton per acre and was eventually sold commercially.BILLY WATKINS: Tale of the kid who couldn't throwIn 1901, when the nearly 6,000 acres was divided among the four children, Henry Phelps became owner of the family homestead. It’s now in the hands of his grandchildren and a great-grandchild.And while some of the buildings still need to be renovated, others are ready for viewing.Among them: The general store/doll house and its thousands of occupants.The dolls were owned by Dorothy Cole Phelps, mother of Henry III and Carolyn May.“Her father and uncle owned a funeral home,” May explains. “She and her friends used to act like they were having funerals. They would bury dolls and say a prayer over them.“Later on in life, the memory of burying those dolls bothered her. She started collecting them when she was 35. She died in 2011 when she was 99. What you see here are the dolls she collected over the course of 60 years.”They sit side by side on rows of shelves. Others stare out of glass cases that were part of the store. Many look the same. But then there is the Planter’s Peanut Man, smiling at you like an old friend. There, too, are Bozo, Popeye, the Jolly Green Giant and Howdy Doody.One glass counter holds only Barbies. This is the Delta, after all, and society status matters.“Whenever people come in here, they’ll say, ‘Oh, I had a doll just like that one,’ and point,” Phelps says. “It really hits home with women of all ages.”Sprinkled among the dolls are musical instruments: A miniature piano. A snare drum. An accordion. A French horn, trumpet and trombone. A rusty harpsichord.I ask Phelps if he is sure the dolls don’t talk and play music when darkness comes and humans are...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017OAKLAND — Hundreds of firecrackers and the pounding of large Tanggu drums provided an unusual experience at the Chapel of the Chimes crematory and colombarium on April Fool’s Day.All that noise and commotion had a solemn purpose: It was part of Ching Ming, a custom thousands of years old in China, in which people honor and celebrate their deceased ancestors.The lion dancers, accompanying firecrackers, drumming and cymbals arrived in a van full of students from the San Francisco chapter of the international Yau Kung Moon martial arts organization, including several visitors from Australia.“We’re Taoists, but Buddhism was and is a major part of Chinese culture. The lion is symbolic of bowing to deities. This is a celebration time to bring in the spirits and send good luck to the dead and celebrate with them. This is a big deal,” said the group’s leader, Norman Lau.The firecrackers are about scaring away evil spirits, he said.Five representatives of the Telegraph Avenue Minh Yueh Jiu Shyh Buddhist Temple had assembled two altars...
Monday, March 27, 2017Lake DeNoon, hosting scores of family and friends on weekends. Refrigeration at the lake was a wooden chest icebox on the back porch, which the kids filled by hauling 60-80 pound ice blocks from the general store on their coaster wagon.Bob attended one- and two-room schoolhouses through the 7th grade. His dad transferred to the USDA office in Washington D.C. in 1949, where Bob’s new high school had over 1,000 students per grade. After Bob finished 9th grade, his dad took a job with what later became USAID in Bangkok, Thailand, then a sleepy town with lots of canals and few cars. The family lived in a beautiful old Thai house overlooking a canal that served as a primary thoroughfare of commerce. Bob and his brother Dave enjoyed a “gap year” from school, learning “street” language, tastes, and smells. In early 1952, they traveled 1,000 miles by train to the foothills of the Himalayas to attend Woodstock, a boarding school in northern India. The family returned to Wisconsin at the end of 1952, and Bob spent his junior year at Pulaski High School in Milwaukee. The family then moved to the Philippines for his senior year, where his dad took another job with USAID. There he met his life-long friend, Peter Harken, and they spent much of their free time sailing in Manila Bay and occasionally crewing for races. Bob often recounted sailing with Peter up to a huge aircraft carrier, part of the U.S. 7th fleet, and being invited aboard. These adventures in Asia inspired Bob’s life-long interest in travel and world cultures, and his year in the Philippines cemented his enthusiasm for sailing, an activity he continued ...
