The Maroon Vol. 2… No. 63 Tuesday, August 16, 2022
“Bringing us all to a place we don't want to lose."
Observer: RHS Athletic Team Photos
Macky’s New York: The Bold And The Timid
William Peay: Tales From The Wood…
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame: Save The Date: Nov. 5th 2022
M + A NYC: Mighty Are We As One
Jim Schoneman: Rock Hound
Joe Farrell: What’s Old Is New Again
Kathy & Ross Petras: You’re Saying It Wrong
Observer
RHS Athletic Team Photos
The Maroons Online collection of RHS Athletic team photos is incomplete, though not for lack of trying. The athletic team photos as well as thousands of others exist in hard copy with only in person access. If you can proposse a solution as to how all the Arrow Yearbooks can be digitized and stored on the Internet, then the eternal appreciation of alumni everywhere can be yours. This is a request like no other, a long time problem which requires a 21st Century solution. It probably doesn’t fit neatly into any of the existing non-profit organizations’ balliwicks, but it effects everyone today and the furthest future generations we can imagine. Please enlist the help of “your little grey cells” as Agatha Christie’s beloved character Hercule Poirot was wont to say. We need a solution which employs time and money expeditiously. Most of all we need an association of people who care about the past and will work tirelessly to see that it remains available to be studied and appreciated by students of all ages. Email The Maroon with your brainstorms, brilliant ideas, and clever plans. We’ll be delighted to read them and follow through on the best of them.
Macky’s New York
Matthew Cortellesi Photography
August 9, 2022 - Midtown west.
The Bold And The Timid
There are those who attack the day and there are those who are attacked by the day - which are you?
Shot on 7th avenue just north of 57th street looking south.
Time 745am.
#ny1pic
William Peay
Tales From The Wood…
Van Neste Square
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
Save The Date: November 5, 2022
Visit The RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame & Order Tickets for 2022 Inductees Banquet
Digital Printing for the RHS Hall of Fame provided by Tim Boucher, RHS 1988
M + A NYC
Mighty Are We As One
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Jim Schoneman
Rock Hound
Spent a couple days up on the south shore of Lake Superior and we booked a kayak tour of the Pictured Rocks Nat'l Lakeshore with a professional outfit out of Munising. We lucked out with the wind. It was pretty strong from the south (SSE to be exact), and there was a chance we might have had to take an alternate kayak tour which isn't as good, but the high cliffs protected the shoreline from the wind and we squeaked by. These pictures are from paddling around the outside of the cliffs. I will do a separate post with a few pictures from inside the caves.
Joe Farrell
What’s Old Is New Again
What’s old is new again. NYC is back to being the slum it was when I used to run into the ’City’ after school and on weekends. Whether my mother knew or not.
Times Square back then was a cesspool. Now it’s a Disney cesspool with bright lights and the homeless and crime. The subway ride from 33rd St PATH station was always a fun ride. Back when they used tokens.
I was able to gain a really good street sense when I was kid. Then we moved to Jersey to escape the crap and the molesters. Kids got a great sense of who to avoid. Nothing really has changed apparently. Only now kids don’t have that street sense as much. Was it a good thing or a bad thing when we avoided crazy Larry who tried to take you behind the trash walls to touch you? You grew up faster.
But now? Crime. Drugs. Alcohol. Seems like old times. I don’t know why the libs seem to think that’s a good thing.
Nobody really bothered us. We had no money. The train was free. The subway tokens for kids were ten cents. We would buy ten. Sell them for 50 cents. Used the profits to hang out, buy beer at the bodegas for 50 cents. Cops kept an eye out but didn’t care. They were $1 for adults.
The drunks and addicts also left us alone. But we learned. We learned things maybe 15 and 16 year olds maybe shouldn’t learn.
Yet. The museums were free. Saw fascinating things between 2 and 5PM or Sat AM. Now. They chase kids out. The Guggenheim was a fascinating place for kids. Modern Art. You saw artists on the streets creating.
I knew where everything was. I saw ‘family’ running numbers. Loan sharks collecting and loaning. The three card Monty guys always ripping off the tourists. Fascinating way to learn the scams.
Even these days, when I’m in NY tourists ask me directions. In that habitat I guess I look like a local. I can’t tell you where the restaurants are anymore, but then I knew where I could go for a free slice or water or soda. Not today.
Personally, it put that hard edge on me. Was that a good thing? Probably not now. It’s sad the city turned into a mean shell of its former self. Haven’t seen it since 2018, before the residents voted for people who did exactly what they said they would do.
And now it’s spreading everywhere. That depresses me. Which is the point of this rant.
And just yesterday we were sitting at a bar, and this prissy older white woman refused to deal with a black bartender. In Tucson. Wtf?
I know 99% of people are nice, friendly and just want to go along to get along. But that 1% is 3.5 million people. And that sucks.
I’m on Joe 4.0 because 2.0 & 3.0 were like Windows 95, just didn’t take right. But I know what’s right and wrong and hopefully I can keep the best of both worlds. Prayer always helps. Maybe I’ve made it to other side.
Kathy & Ross Petras
You’re Saying It Wrong
Who vs. Whom: When and why to use “whom” instead of “who”
Most people avoid using “whom” because they think it sounds, well, like you have a stick up your butt. There’s something prissy about it, something overly correct about it. But there is a time and place for whom, at least for purists. (Note: This is one case where we tend to side with the purists, although we concede that there is a lot of truth in that stick issue …) More…