Russ Emerson | March 17, 2005
Is there enough green on this page? Being Dutch on my Mom’s side, I grew up with the notion that we were supposed to wear orange instead of green on Saint Patrick’s Day. Perhaps that’s a by-product of the intense anti-Catholicism of the Dutch Calvinist camp. That sort of attitude is understandable, given the anti-Reformation […]
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Russ Emerson | October 5, 2004
I was born the day Scott Carpenter went aloft and into orbit in Aurora 7. Space flight has always been an interest, no, a fascination of mine. Astronauts have always been heroes to me. It’s a dangerous thing, going into space. Many have died, and yet the ranks of those eager to follow the path […]
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