This is where we are at now.
Please remember to RSVP to Cheryl for the party!
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Party Update from Patrick
We need to hear back from everyone to get a head count! ASAP!
Here are the Details:
Date: October 23, 2010
Time: 5:30 to 10:30 pm
Place: W. A. Frost, 374 Selby Avenue, St. Paul MN 55102
Dinner: Four courses w/ champagne and wine.
Cost: $40.00
Answers to FAQs:
Checks should be made out to Cheryl Miller upon your arrival at Frost’s.
Participants can choose one of three meal selections when they arrive at the restaurant. Supplemental cash bar is available.
Your spouse or significant other is welcome if they read a biography of Washington, Cleveland, Harrison, or G. W. Bush. If you have a special case, give Cheryl a call at 651 653-8133.
Let us know if you are coming from out of town and need to be picked up at the airport and/or would like to stay in one of our homes. We have lots of offers to put people up.
PLEASE RSVP BEFORE OCTOBER 1ST TO Cheryl Miller AT camiller@umn.edu or 651-653-8133.
Thanks for your prompt attention to this and your help in making this a great evening.
Pat
ps: Listen to KBEM Jazz 88 on Will’s birthday October 15th if you get a chance.
Here are the Details:
Date: October 23, 2010
Time: 5:30 to 10:30 pm
Place: W. A. Frost, 374 Selby Avenue, St. Paul MN 55102
Dinner: Four courses w/ champagne and wine.
Cost: $40.00
Answers to FAQs:
Checks should be made out to Cheryl Miller upon your arrival at Frost’s.
Participants can choose one of three meal selections when they arrive at the restaurant. Supplemental cash bar is available.
Your spouse or significant other is welcome if they read a biography of Washington, Cleveland, Harrison, or G. W. Bush. If you have a special case, give Cheryl a call at 651 653-8133.
Let us know if you are coming from out of town and need to be picked up at the airport and/or would like to stay in one of our homes. We have lots of offers to put people up.
PLEASE RSVP BEFORE OCTOBER 1ST TO Cheryl Miller AT camiller@umn.edu or 651-653-8133.
Thanks for your prompt attention to this and your help in making this a great evening.
Pat
ps: Listen to KBEM Jazz 88 on Will’s birthday October 15th if you get a chance.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Official Presidential Party Plans from Hollis
Ladies and Gents,
Greetings to all - here is an update-
Please mark your calendars and your pages in the Presidential biographies for your quote. Pare it to two minutes and be prepared to present or have it read.
Do check the attached for your name, please let me know any corrections and if you will be bringing another person.
Sat. October 23 for Hey Will Listen to this..."".
WA Frosts on Selby Avenue in St. Paul where Will and Cheryl gathered often.
Cheryl has reserved the back room for something like a groom's dinner but more participatory
Beginning around 5:30 serving courses of quotes and memories:
5:30 - 6:00 People arrive, drink ordering, finger food appetizers
6:00 - 6:10 Master of Ceremonies Patrick Coleman- welcomes group, describes plan for evening
6:10 - 6:25 First reports: The Founders (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams)
6:30 - 7:00 Salad course served, informal chatter
7:00 - 7:45 Second reports: Jacksonian/Expansion through Civil War era (see attachment for presidents)
7:45 - 8:15 Dinner served, informal chatter
8:15 - 9:00 Third reports: Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Depression, World War II
9:00 - 9:20 Dessert served, informal chatter
9:20 - 9:50 Fourth reports: Cold War, Social Age, Progressive Era, Depression, World War II
9:00 - 9:20 Dessert served, informal chatter
9:20 - 9:50 Fourth reports: Cold War, Social Change, Globalization
10:00 - 10:30 Wind down, hang out, final toasts to project and any further instructions to group
Hollis Stauber
Greetings to all - here is an update-
Please mark your calendars and your pages in the Presidential biographies for your quote. Pare it to two minutes and be prepared to present or have it read.
Do check the attached for your name, please let me know any corrections and if you will be bringing another person.
Sat. October 23 for Hey Will Listen to this..."".
WA Frosts on Selby Avenue in St. Paul where Will and Cheryl gathered often.
Cheryl has reserved the back room for something like a groom's dinner but more participatory
Beginning around 5:30 serving courses of quotes and memories:
5:30 - 6:00 People arrive, drink ordering, finger food appetizers
6:00 - 6:10 Master of Ceremonies Patrick Coleman- welcomes group, describes plan for evening
6:10 - 6:25 First reports: The Founders (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams)
6:30 - 7:00 Salad course served, informal chatter
7:00 - 7:45 Second reports: Jacksonian/Expansion through Civil War era (see attachment for presidents)
7:45 - 8:15 Dinner served, informal chatter
8:15 - 9:00 Third reports: Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Depression, World War II
9:00 - 9:20 Dessert served, informal chatter
9:20 - 9:50 Fourth reports: Cold War, Social Age, Progressive Era, Depression, World War II
9:00 - 9:20 Dessert served, informal chatter
9:20 - 9:50 Fourth reports: Cold War, Social Change, Globalization
10:00 - 10:30 Wind down, hang out, final toasts to project and any further instructions to group
Hollis Stauber
Thursday, July 15, 2010
New online food magazine
Given that WP was a foodie long before it was cool and I know many of you are foodies, I thought this would be a nice July share. In Danville we had panzanella and fresh beans from the garden last night.
Remember our gathering date is the evening of October 23 at a TC location to be announced. We still have several presidents to be claimed, so help us recruit a few more people.
Best for July—may you have all the fresh tomatoes you want , Karl
The Zenehilada
Remember our gathering date is the evening of October 23 at a TC location to be announced. We still have several presidents to be claimed, so help us recruit a few more people.
Best for July—may you have all the fresh tomatoes you want , Karl
The Zenehilada
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Overall rank of presidents
Bob found this cool chart ranking the presidents on various things - take a look! (Although my guy came in last, boohoo. Not much of surprise, though.)
Happy Fourth!
- Lori
Overall rank of presidents
Happy Fourth!
- Lori
Overall rank of presidents
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Update from Karl
Dear Friends—
I’m writing on behalf of Cheryl Miller, Patrick Coleman, Hollis Stauber and myself.
I am happy to announce that we have the beginnings of an event plan. On October 23 we will have the "Will, listen to this!"--"An evening of presidential readings in honor of Will Powers" somewhere in the Twin Cities. Please mark your calendar and help us recruit other interested people.
After trying to communicate by blog with great help from Lori Williamson, the four of us have come to the conclusion that we are the e-mail generation, not the blog. So we are going to plan to send out an e-mail each month until we get together in October. Feel free to use this list as a way of communicating with everyone.
At our October 23 event, people will have the opportunity to share a funny line, a provocative quote, or a great example of political absurdity that you would have wanted to share with Will. For example, from Pat,
Quotes that either made me think of Will or that I would have loved to have shared with him…
From Mark Twain’s Roughing It, published during the administration of Grant, there are hundreds of great descriptive phrases like “dust-licking pimps” (applied to those who discriminate against the Chinese) or “”a step peculiar to myself – and the kangaroo” (his self assessed dancing style) but what I would like to read to Will is the end of the book,
The moral of it [the book] is this: if you are of any account, stay home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are “no account,” go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them – if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
I’ m uncertain why this made me think of Will, but the quote I liked from the Smith’s biography of Grant is from Lincoln who, before the Civil War, said “I hope god is on my side but I must have Kentucky”.
So as you read the biography and the work of fiction from the same period, think about what you would have loved to read to Will.
Lori, can you share with all of us where we are on assignments?
Cheryl, Pat and Hollis, please add anything I have left out. Everyone else, please join in.
Best, Karl
I’m writing on behalf of Cheryl Miller, Patrick Coleman, Hollis Stauber and myself.
I am happy to announce that we have the beginnings of an event plan. On October 23 we will have the "Will, listen to this!"--"An evening of presidential readings in honor of Will Powers" somewhere in the Twin Cities. Please mark your calendar and help us recruit other interested people.
After trying to communicate by blog with great help from Lori Williamson, the four of us have come to the conclusion that we are the e-mail generation, not the blog. So we are going to plan to send out an e-mail each month until we get together in October. Feel free to use this list as a way of communicating with everyone.
At our October 23 event, people will have the opportunity to share a funny line, a provocative quote, or a great example of political absurdity that you would have wanted to share with Will. For example, from Pat,
Quotes that either made me think of Will or that I would have loved to have shared with him…
From Mark Twain’s Roughing It, published during the administration of Grant, there are hundreds of great descriptive phrases like “dust-licking pimps” (applied to those who discriminate against the Chinese) or “”a step peculiar to myself – and the kangaroo” (his self assessed dancing style) but what I would like to read to Will is the end of the book,
The moral of it [the book] is this: if you are of any account, stay home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are “no account,” go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them – if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
I’ m uncertain why this made me think of Will, but the quote I liked from the Smith’s biography of Grant is from Lincoln who, before the Civil War, said “I hope god is on my side but I must have Kentucky”.
So as you read the biography and the work of fiction from the same period, think about what you would have loved to read to Will.
Lori, can you share with all of us where we are on assignments?
Cheryl, Pat and Hollis, please add anything I have left out. Everyone else, please join in.
Best, Karl
News
As Karl has noted, we will be primarily communicating by email. As I am unwilling to give up the blog (so much less hateful than a wiki) I will repost his updates here as well (that'll be the next post).
I will also note that we've had four more people join our effort: yah! Keep them coming, though...we still need eight more people!
Thanks, all, for your efforts. Hope the reading is going well! Put that long weekend to good use! (For instance, I've still got to find my books...)
- Lori
I will also note that we've had four more people join our effort: yah! Keep them coming, though...we still need eight more people!
Thanks, all, for your efforts. Hope the reading is going well! Put that long weekend to good use! (For instance, I've still got to find my books...)
- Lori
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