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...Meijer's entrepreneurial son Hank who unwittingly sparked the contention when he went to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon) in October 1994, in search of promising new business ventures that might result from the Clinton Administration's impending normalization of relations with Vietnam. While driving down Le Duan Boulevard one afternoon, Hank Meijer asked his driver to stop at the former U.S. embassy, atop which the tragic last moments of America's involvement in Vietnam had been played out. Abandoned since and allowed to run down into a weed-choked eyesore where only chickens...
...Then I saw the ladder from the evacuation," Hank Meijer relates. "My first thought was, That's an important piece of history; perhaps I can pay somebody a few hundred bucks to weld it off with a blowtorch, then crate it up and ship it back to Michigan for display at the Ford Museum." He resisted, but when he returned to Grand Rapids and told his father about the ladder, Fred Meijer was captivated, and determined to put those "18 steps to freedom" on permanent display before the American people. He figured his fellow board members at the Ford Foundation...
...after Memphis, with six more to go--we watched folks hanging out on their stoops, kids playing, pickup trucks winding along two-lane country roads. To this untutored Yankee, it was a first glimpse of what I had known only from fiction and song, from Flannery O'Connor to Hank Williams. And it did look different, from the dusty streets to the plain-lettered signs for BBQ and general stores...
Packing a bagpipe and tin whistles, Henry and Fran Frantz will head for the mountains this summer. With their children Becca and Hank, the Decatur, Ga., couple will be making music at the Swannanoa Gathering held at WARREN WILSON COLLEGE in Asheville, N.C. From July 9 through Aug. 5, the campus plays host to six one-week workshops led by fiddlers, pipers, guitarists, step dancers and folklorists from around the world. Three of the workshops--Celtic Week, Sing Swing and String Week and Old-Time Music Week--welcome adults and children...
...course, I remember sitting around the TV with my brother and cousins the night of April 8th, 1974, when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record. Those are the things I remember that happened. I also grew up playing sports, but if you ask about sports things I did, then we'd be here for two hours (laughing) 'cause I was All-World, All-Everything?...