Holiday Music — The Sequel!
Last year about this time, I wrote a column about some of my favorite holiday and Christmas songs. To recap, here are those songs:
“Christmas...
BARTUS: THIS TACKLE SHOP HAS A LONG HISTORY IN MARATHON
This column is the next in a semi-regular series about Keys places that have stayed mostly the same as things have changed all around...
BARTUS: BIRTHDAY REFLECTIONS FROM AN AGING BOOMER
I originally wrote about many of the concepts in this column 10 years ago, on the occasion of my 49th birthday. This past Tuesday...
HOW DO WE DO SANTA PHOTOS THIS YEAR? WITH A GREEN SCREEN
Be sure to stop by Havana Jack’s on Sunday, Nov. 29, from 1 to 4 p.m. for Socially Distant Photos with Santa! Local photographer...
SPOILER: TURKEY WASN’T ON THE MENU AT ‘FIRST’ THANKSGIVING
For most modern Americans, Thanksgiving is a time of family gatherings, a huge turkey dinner, and NFL teams with losing records. In this pandemic...
CRAZY 2020 AIN’T OVER YET; ALSO, A CLASSY PLUG FOR A GOOD CAUSE
2020 has proven to be the strangest year I’ve seen in a good long while. If you need any proof: A coronavirus pandemic shut...
BARTUS: LIFE WILL GO ON AFTER THE ELECTION
“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” – R.E.M.
“Every generation thinks it’s the last, thinks it’s the...
WILDFLOWERS & ALL THE REST’ IS SOME OF PETTY’S FINEST WORK
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge Tom Petty fan. As a performer, he was for more than 40 years the...
MARATHON’S FAVORITE HOLIDAY: HALLOWEEN
The approaching Halloween event marks the beginning of the Holiday Season — and I seriously love the holidays! Temperatures begin trending a little cooler...
ENDURING MARATHON BUSINESS SERIES: BRASS MONKEY
It would be hard to imagine Marathon without the Brass Monkey Lounge & Liquor Store. So hard, in fact, that when the landlord once...
