Who says porcupines aren't beautiful?

Decidedly unprickly Bev Badfjord displays a look that is close enough to raccoonage to merit 'snapshot of the day' visibility in the News.

"Why is he taking my picture?" her expression seems to say.......



(Before; beautiful but plainer)

John Helt and I wear the orange dove arm-bands, 1981

On the steps of the US Federal Building, 517 E. Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, we gathered to demonstrate against US support of the El Salvador junta and to observe the one year anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero.

This was a signal occasion for the SRN editor, for it was my first of many subsequent peace participations over the ensuing years.

Ironic, in that the feds were photographing the participants from a distance, a duty that I myself performed as a CIC (federal) agent and photographer when I was a plain-clothesman in Chicago, in the US Army, 1958 to 1962. Doubly ironic that the site of my first demonstration was the Milw. Federal Bldg where I first went to begin the long application process of admittance into the Counter Intelligence Corps in '58. Times change and with them their demands.

These pieces of memorabilia turned up in my ongoing basement sorting-out today. The band and clipping were entered in a scrapbook that my late mother maintained of my 'achievements' and general press, whether she agreed with it or not.

click on image to enlarge and read John and I are on either side of the baby stroller, I on the left at center in the standard hat.

Some of my best friends........

fishermen:

The New Yorker 11-16-09

100 great movie lines

This composite video is from a Raccoon reader:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=69DSirS0w30

'They call me MR. Tibbs!'

'Play it, Sam....'


'Bond...JAMES Bond......'

'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.'

More old stuff, click to enlarge

Good old Louise Bunker, David, Mom, Dad

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Sheet music in the basement

Play this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3puIUukno9A

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The subject of aviation came up the other day when Bob Sellars sent me an Email telling of the Russian cargo plane, the Antonov 225, that is currently the world's largest (cargo) airplane.

Brother Les in Johnstown PA elucidated on the theme with this link:

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0188.shtml

The advent and progress of aviation, as reflected in these early and later pictures is really something!

Old New Yorker raccoon cover, Jan. 24, 1994

13 years before the birth of the raccoon news, we tore this cover off our New Yorker magazine and saved it. At the time we had no idea at the front of our mind about devoting our life to raccoonage, but you never know. Times change, as we say, and with them their demands.

We are ashamed to admit that in our unenlightened high school years we flew a racccon tail from our radio antenna. Later we very briefly belonged to the Fraternal Order of Raccoons on TV...........but then we got well. And here, now, is the Raccoon News!