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Monthly Archives: February 2019

Home2019Monthly Archives: February 2019
Smith, Farr and LeVias Made Beaumont Proud in 1966

Smith, Farr and LeVias Made Beaumont Proud in 1966

Magnolia Park is just a few miles north of downtown Beaumont, Texas. That is where, in the early 1960s, high school football players gathered to practice and play informal games. Recreation for black kids then was minimal, so they created their...

February 26, 2019 Richard college football, sports history 7 Comments
RIP, Carol

RIP, Carol

My life changed for the better when the Brandeberry family moved from Omaha to Dallas in the summer of 1969. The oldest of its three children was a girl named Carol. She enrolled at Bryan Adams High School, and her locker had by the luck of the...

February 21, 2019 Richard Bryan Adams High School, Dallas, ex-girlfriends 5 Comments
Hard to “Imagine” a Beatles Concert in Seoul in the mid-1960s

Hard to “Imagine” a Beatles Concert in Seoul in the mid-1960s

I recently attended and enjoyed an exhibition about the life and music of John Lennon and the Beatles at the Seoul Arts Center. However—and I am afraid I will sound like an insufferable snob here—I learned little since I lived through the Beatles...

February 16, 2019 Richard Beatles, Korean culture 2 Comments
Ford Frick’s Phantom Confrontation with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1947

Ford Frick’s Phantom Confrontation with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1947

According to Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune, some major fireworks went off just three weeks after Jackie Robinson began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Certainly there had been opposition to Robinson...

February 14, 2019 Richard baseball, racial justice, sports history 4 Comments
Buryeong Valley, Uljin, Deokgu and Baegam

Buryeong Valley, Uljin, Deokgu and Baegam

On this 223-kilometer bus ride to Korea’s east coast, I had two seat mates. The first was a young woman who had recently been through plastic surgery; I could see her bruised face underneath a mask. The second was a burly man who reeked of...

February 7, 2019 Richard Korean culture, Korean history, Korean travels 6 Comments

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