I took the bike out for its first real ride on Christmas Eve day with Wahoo, who drives a 49cc TaoTao scooter. We hadn’t gone maybe 8 blocks and I found that the bike wouldn’t take off from a stop. It wouldn’t shift into low so that I could do so either. I was stuck …
Tag: Higginsville
Jun 22
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury passed away recently at the age of 91. I was 14 when I bought my first Bradbury book at the Higginsville Country Fair book sale in 1986. It was a paperback copy of The Illustrated Man. I bought it partly because I knew the name Ray Bradbury, but not knowing why he was …
Jan 22
Quotable: Sam Duncan
“From the day that you’re born to the day you ride in the hearse things are never so bad that they couldn’t get worse.” Sam Duncan was an African American educator in Higginsville, Missouri from the 1950s-1970s where he taught a number of classes and coached several sports. The high school’s football field is named …
