Creator: How close can you get?
Saturday, July 25, 2026 . It's the Satyr's day . . . Extreme heat warnings are in the forecasts for Green Country today. Real temperature of 100º and an index of 113º with moderate Southerlies visit TulseyTown this afternoon. The triple digit index extends until midnight tonight. A heat dome is settling over the area and likely to keep this pattern for the next week, at least.
You're closer than you may think. – Mark Manson, Breakthrough, 7.23.26
On this day in 1965, Bob Dylan walked onstage at the Newport Folk Festival and changed popular music.
It's the birthdate of Maxfield Parrish, born in 1870 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an illustrator and painter and perhaps the most popular commercial artist in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. If you don’ t have one of his prints, many of his images will be familiar to you.
Philosopher/writer/longshoreman Eric Hoffer was born on this day in 1902 New York City.
The first human conceived using in vitro fertilization (IVF), Louise Brown, turns 46. She was born on this day in 1978, Lancashire, England.
And, its the birthday of master saxophonist Johnny “rabbit” Hodges, born in 1906 Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1906. He joined Duke Ellington’s orchestra in 1928, and he was a soloist and mainstay of the ensemble for over 40 years until his death.