While tromping through the woods in southeast Wisconsin looking for a good place to fish, angler and baritone Warren Fremling heard the pounding of hammers. Fremling, choir director at Congregation Solel in Highland Park and a garrulous soul struck up a conversation with Eric Lentz. Lentz is the co-founder along with his wife Deanna Hallagan of the Rustic Falls Nature Camp, a place where at-risk and special needs kids as well as cancer survivors can get out of town and into nature.
Fremling wanted to help. He organized a concert with some of his pals.
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In the film Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner walks through his cornfield and hears someone whisper. “If you build it, he will come.” Costner’s character Ray Kinsella somehow concludes that he should build a baseball field. And, of course, so it came to be.
FIELD OF DREAMS, Ray Liotta, Kevin Costner, 1989, (c) Universal
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This is the Cuban Peso. It is currently worth 1.08 US dollars, 7.5 Chinese Yuan, 972.05 North Korean Won.
The fellow on the Peso is Jose Marti. He is best known for his poem Versos Sencillos (Simple Verses), some stanzas of which ended up in the popular song Guantanamera.
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