Today is Friday, December 21, 2012.
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Today is December 19, and it is remarkable for several reasons. On this day in 1154, King Henry II was crowned in England. You remember him, right, and all that nasty business over Sir Thomas Beckett and the Church and all? Ah, but Peter O'Toole made a a wonderful Henry, both in Becket and in The Lion in Winter!
Mobile Ed has a lot of performers on the road. Many of these great and wonderful individuals offer more than one show to our schools. And frequently, performers will be so well liked by a school that they will be invited back with another of their shows for the following year. This is a story about one such performer and one such school.
As we approach the Christmas Holidays, and time with family and friends becomes especially important, we also approach a somewhat sad day in our little Mobile Ed family of school show performers. One of our own is leaving us. Sigh.
Today is December 7, “the date that will live in infamy” according to the great Franklin D. Roosevelt. But will it?
Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping madness are now behind us once again! And that means the crazy rush toward the Christmas and New Year holidays is upon us. Amidst all the excitement of the next three to four weeks, please do not forget one very important item. Don’t forget to plan your school assemblies and shows for the Winter and Spring!
Seven score and nine years ago, President Abraham Lincoln, weak from an oncoming illness, stepped in front of a large crowd gathered in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to deliver what would become widely recognized as one of the finest speeches ever uttered in the English language. The words he spoke that day have come down to us one hundred and forty nine years later as The Gettysburg Address. Words that have been studied and faithfully memorized by millions over the decades that follow because of the powerfully elegant simplicity with which they sum up so much of what was great about Abraham Lincoln and, more importantly, what is great about America.
We celebrated Veterans day this week and gave thanks and recognition to all the servicemen and women who have given so much in the defense of freedom. And since we are long overdue for our Dog of the Month feature, here is a story that covers both items!
The election of 2012 is now over, and however you voted (I hope you did!), America’s first African American president, Barrack Obama, has been reelected for a second term in the White House. Despite this monumental achievement, there are some who seem totally blasé about this event.
