Thirty years ago, 11 people were killed trying to watch The Who perform in concert in Cincinnati. The 11 were among 18,000 people with tickets to the event, and they were crushed, trampled, or suffocated in the concertgoers’ mad rush to claim the best seats for a performance by one of the premier rock bands [...]
Archive for December 3rd, 2009
Tragedy On The Ohio River
Posted in Music, Ohio, tagged Cincinnati, Music, Ohio, Rock concerts, the Who, The Who concert tragedy on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ducks And Beavers
Posted in sports, tagged Buckeye football, college football, Oregon-Oregon State, Rose Bowl, sports, The Ohio State University on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight the Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State Beavers play for the right to play Ohio State in Pasadena. The two teams’ in-state rivalry is fierce — the game is known in Oregon as the “Civil War” — and for the first time in 113 games whichever team wins will play in the Rose Bowl. [...]
Farewell To The Swans
Posted in Ohio, weather, tagged Animals, birds, Morning Walks, New Albany, Ohio, Swans, weather on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the weather has turned colder, the New Albany bird population has changed. The robins, blue jays, and cardinals of the summer are long since gone, and flocks of Canadian geese have been moving through, using the pond on the Yantis Loop as one of their stops as they fly south for the winter. They [...]
