Parrots of the Caribbean perform Jimmy Buffet’s biggest hits at the Hoogland Center for the Performing Arts. The band attempts to replicate both the musical stylings and the laid back style Jimmy Buffet has become famous for, with the group’s leader, David Albrecht, often mistaken for Buffet by longtime fans. Albrecht is so similar to […]
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New play details hardships of immigrants
Coming to America from Europe, the first thing many hopeful immigrants were sure to see would be the Statue of Liberty, an icon of freedom and opportunity. The most famous line of Emma Lazarus’ poem, The New Colossus, is inscribed inside the monument: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe […]
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Civil War lunch break
General Grierson Days in Jacksonville is a time for visitors to look back at one of the darkest periods in American history and see the largest mounted Civil War reenactment in the Midwest. Visitors can see the lives of soldiers as they drill, prepare meals, practice medicine and prepare for battle. Food, a parade and […]
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Honor Flight gives WW II vets a trip, and a salute
For World War II veteran Harold Parkes, a trip to see the new World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., was beyond description. “It was just hard to describe,” Parkes said. “It was spectacular. To see it in reality is altogether amazing.” Of course, having an organization that flies veterans to the nation’s capital to […]
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Few consequences for four-wheeler vandalism
Jo Hendrickson and her husband, Dave, of Hendrickson Farms in Rochester have dealt with both teenagers and adults using their property as a makeshift track for everything from dune-buggies to go-karts to four-wheelers, with one group even lodging their truck into a mudhole, ruining crops and causing damage. On May 29, two boys and two […]
