Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Winter Dance Party BY: RACHEL SMITH It’s a tale as old as time in North Iowa – or at least for the past sixty years. What was scheduled to be a brief rock & roll tour of the Mid-Western United States soon became one of the most influential and iconic tragedies in the history of...
BY: RACHEL SMITH Last year, Americans left 705 million vacation days unused. That’s more than a hundred-million-day increase over a few years ago. Bottom line – people work too much! And in the over-worked, stressed-out, go-go-go world that we live in these days, it appears the opportunity for run and...
BY: RACHEL SMITH So how’s that New Year’s Resolution coming along? Are you eating better? Exercising more? Well, it’s kind of hard to stick to your guns and keep at it when there’s nothing (besides being healthy and weight loss) pushing you to succeed. So… maybe you should sign up for TRI Clear Lake, and...
February 2, 1959, the day the world lost three music legends: Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and Ritchie Valens. The men had played their final concert at the Surf Ballroom before crashing in an airplane north of Clear Lake, and 60 years later the Surf continues their annual tribute to the three fallen...
photocredit: ana-white.com BY: RACHEL SMITH Finally, a National Day made just for me. Well, me and all my super-awesome, book-nerd friends! YAY! The 4th Wednesday in January has officially been deemed National Library Shelfie Day. No… that’s not a typo. I actually thought it was Library SELFIE day, and had this great...
photocredit: foodnetwork.com BY: RACHEL SMITH One of the coolest National Days I have found yet – National Popcorn Day! I thought I’d start with a brief history of the day, but unfortunately, there is not a single record of when the day started, or who was responsible for its creation. What we do know, is that whoever...
