From Small Town Boy to World Traveler
Long before Jim and Jane Henson introduced the Muppets to America in 1955, America had Howdy Doody, a highly popular TV show that featured Buffalo Bob Smith and his puppet character, Howdy Doody. Buffalo Bob was originally a radio announcer in New York and invented the voice for an imaginary character named Howdy Doody. He […]
Long gone are the days of trading paper notes in class without getting caught. Kids that text (all 100% of them) will never experience the thrill of receiving a paper note, the anticipation that surrounded getting one if you were expecting it from your girlfriend or boyfriend, the cooperation and assistance, plotting and planning it […]
The year is 2024, and the United States has just elected the first woman President, a Louisiana State University graduate, named Marie Boudreaux. A few days after the election, the president-elect calls her father Richard Boudreaux and asks, “Dad, I’m assuming you and Mom will be coming to my inauguration?” “I don’t think so darling. […]
When I was growing up in Anacoco, Louisiana, a small West Central Louisiana town in Vernon Parish, one athletic stood out as superior to all. His name was Jimmy Hawthorne, who in later life became the radio broadcast voice of the LSU Tigers from 1979 to 2016. Our school in Anacoco was a small class […]