Well, that was fun.
“North & South Marquette” seems
to have been a resounding success, as a picture from last night may
prove--
We did end up selling out the place, and the capacity crowd seemed
entertained. And based on the comments we received from people
afterwards, they may have even learned a little something.
Who knew?
As I joked at the beginning of the presentation, we probably had enough material for a six hour show, but
figured that almost two hours of stuff was enough. Why could we have
done a six hour show? Well, it goes back to something I was saying a
couple of weeks ago. No one has ever done a big, in-depth project on
these two parts of Marquette. Because rich and/or notable people
didn't live there, no one's been curious. So all kinds of people
have had all kinds of stories saved up over the years, just waiting
for someone to ask them. And since Jack & I were those
“someones”, that's how we ended up with all that material.
I just, personally, hope we did the
neighborhoods justice.
I may have more to say on the whole
evening later on, but for now it's on to the next few days of an
action-packed week. Tomorrow, I get to spend six hours announcing
people's names for Finish Line Jim's annual gig at the Noquemanon.
Then next week, I get to (hopefully) put the earliest-ever wrap on a
season of “High School Bowl” as we spend a couple of days
shooting the quarterfinals, semi-finals, and the championship game
for the year.
It's amazing how quickly you can get
done when you don't have weather cancellations six weeks in a row,
like we did last year.
On that note, I need to go put in a
little time as Radio Jim before Finish Line Jim and TV Jim take over.
And don't worry; even though History Jim's big show for January is
over, he has a LOT more coming up, and coming up before he even wants
to think about it.
Have a great weekend!
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