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LewPort71

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  1. 50 years ago today occurred the devastating plane crash in Huntington WV that

    claimed the lives of 75 people including the players, coaches and boosters of the Marshall University

    football team.  This event is told by the movie "We Are...Marshall" that was made in  2006.

    The movie is a pretty good depiction of the events and the return of the football program.

    On this day there is a ceremony to turn off the memorial fountain that is in the center of the campus.

    Normally 2 to 3 thousand attend, but not in 2020. The ceremony was streamed online.

    The  sense of 'community'  at the Marshall campus and Huntington is very high.

     

    My avatar is a picture of the fountain

    Go HERD !!

     

     

     

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  2. 16 hours ago, Augie said:

     

    Different for sure, and maybe in some ways better. We were lucky enough to go on a Thursday a few years ago. I found myself wishing we’d hit a practice round instead if it meant fewer people. Every year friends in Hilton Head, SC would make the trip before the tournament started. I’m sure they got a better look at the course than when it’s more crowded. (I also suspect there was less of a draw back then.) The golf is great, but the grounds are just unbelievable. Television does NOT do it justice. 

     

    I’ll miss the azaleas blooming. The Masters is a rite of spring, so this will be..........weird. 

     

     

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    In the late 1970s and early 1980s my mom and step father attended the par three tournament and they said the same thing about television.  TV does not do the grounds justice with all the beauty and all the terrain.

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  3. Grandson is dressing as the grim reaper.

    Our neighborhood has 100 houses so it is a gold mine for

    out of area kids to be dropped off and pillage the 

    streets for the 2 hours  that are scheduled.

    Many communities around have canceled so Mrs. Lew and I 

    estimate we will have 300.

     

     

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