Wow an unsupported "hike" that wiped out both the supported and unsupported records. McConaughy is a former Boston College cross country and track runner. he's in his mid-20's now and averaged 48 miles a day. Joe ‘Stringbean’ McConaughy, a well-known speed hiker, set a new record on the Appalachian Trail today. He hiked the 2,190-mile … Read more
Thanks to Ed Mechmann for sending this around. "Life from Death." “I think it is a turn from desperation to great hope and transformative hope going forward,” Art Bennett, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, told CNA of a new free medical clinic set to open in November, replacing a … Read more
Our three chinchillas also applaud and whistle!
Actually her Feast was yesterday, the 29th, along with two other English women martyrs. Below is something I posted about her last October 26th. She was married, with three children. And she must have been awfully tough. She lived in York and was executed there. Yesterday was the feast of the English martyrs, killed between … Read more
Pathetic. Trump agrees to it and promotes it. Ohh and it started in the Obama Administration. From NPR, May, 2016: Obama also has put the U.S. on course to spend around $1 trillion on upgrading its nuclear arsenal over the next three decades I'm not a pacifist but this is an absurdity. Immoral weapons which … Read more
At Columbus Circle; maybe replace Christopher Columbus with Che Guevara?
This from the Telegraph (UK) which doesn't require registration – In a special event at the Edinburgh International Television Festival to mark 60 years of the Natural History Unit at BBC Studios, Sir David, 91, said: "I spend a lot of time wringing my hands and saying how dreadful it is, and how this forest … Read more
The first canonized Saint of the Western Hemisphere and Patron of Peru, the Philippines, and indigent people. Brigid and Joe were in Peru at this time last year. The link takes you to her wiki entry – Rose of Lima, T.O.S.D. (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617), was a member of the Third Order … Read more
Who died in Auschwitz, substituting himself for another prisoner who was to be shot. I believe the prisoner survived the war and was at his Kolbe’s canonization in 1982. St. Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) was born in Poland to a devout Christian family. As a boy he had a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She … Read more
Self-supported meaning there wasn't a team – often by vehicle – supplying the hiker. That's 2,189 miles in just under 54 days (Do the math!).Excerpts below, but if you hit the link – it's a good story. Dan Binde, age 25, is from Lake Park, Minn. He departed the southern terminus of the AT on … Read more