Elevating existing events that deserve lots of recognition, like Christmas in the Canyon, the LBPA Art & Wine Walk, and the Riverview Bacon & Brew Fest
Making contacts with tourism professionals across two states
Getting lots of news attention from QCA stations
Helping fund both The Grove and Wildness, two of the earliest pieces of the emerging arts culture in Clinton thanks to Gabi Torres
Parachuting elves
So many more things than I can list. Thank you all. I have loved my time here and will remember it with fondness. <3
1989 – German citizens begin demolishing Berlin Wall
1989 – College student (it’s me) raced to Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines, Iowa to stand in the electronics section at a mall store so that I could watch the fall of the Berlin Wall
2012 – Barack Obama elected as 44th President of the United States
1483 – Birth of Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation
2010 – Disney composer Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas) receives 2442nd star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
1241 – Pope Celestine IV passes away
1969 – Sesame Street premieres
1908 – First Gideon Bible placed in hotel room
1889 – Birth of Claude Rains, famous for playing Chief of Police in Casablanca
1940 – Walt Disney’s first day as FBI informer
1801 – Dueling is outlawed by the state of Kentucky
1871 – Birth of Winston Churchill, but not the Winston Churchill you’re thinking of
1964 – Birth of Kenny Rogers, but not the Kenny Rogers you’re thinking of
1969 – Birth of Ellen Pompeo, yes the one you’re thinking of
1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to New York’s Smithsonian Institution
1990 – Home Alone movie premieres at the box office
1766 – Charter signed for Queen’s College / Rutger’s University
1998 – Premiere of Star Trek: Insurrection
2014 – London Premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
1963 – Actress Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond) marries novelist William Goyen who is 15 years her senior
2007 – Author Norman Mailer dies
1954 – Unveiling of the Marine Corps War Memorial depicting the raising of the flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima
