When I was a boy, we learned about animals from a syndicated TV show called “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.” The show featured a zoologist named Jim Fowler clad in khaki safari gear and giving off a big Indiana Jones energy before Indiana Jones was a thing. Fowler went into the field to research wildContinue reading “Observing 6th graders recalls ‘Wild Kingdom’ narrators”
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Dead mentors leave clues as to when I feel like a real teacher
I knew my days in newspapers were almost over when I wrote the obituaries for Ken Fuson and Robert D. Woodward on the same day. Ken was the best writer any of us at the Register have ever known. He may have been the best writer in the history of the Register. He was aContinue reading “Dead mentors leave clues as to when I feel like a real teacher”
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