DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

How It All Began 72 Years Ago, It All Started with 26 Men on a Roof    Some say it was an accident, some say it was fate. Either way (or perhaps both) the movement we now enjoy as the  Barbershop Harmony Society  (aka. Society for The Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) can be credited to a meeting in Tulsa organized by  Owen Clifton Cash  on April 11, 1938.    Cash was really only interested in getting a few guys together to sing. There was no grand plan, no grand scheme. He and acquaintance  Rupert Hall  had a chance meeting in Kansas City several weeks before and discussed forming a Song Fest. On his return to Tulsa, Cash drafted an invitation and mailed it to the 14 singers he knew might show up and encouraged them to bring guests.    The Tulsa Club  was a high class place and popular destination for special dinners, weddings and meeti...

   There is no shortage of haunted houses in America, but perhaps America's most famous house, the one that resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House.  The White House was built near the end of the 18th Century, and today it's composed of 6 stories of 132 rooms and 412 doors.  With so many rooms, is it any wonder that some of them are haunted by past presidents and first ladies alike?  The more doors in a house, the more of a chance some of them might open and close on their own.  But who is haunting the executive mansion and playing havoc on our senses of reality?  Most obvious of all, past presidents and their wives are the most frequent haunters of the White House and for some of them their haunting are more memorable than their tenures in office. William Henry Harrison     William Henry Harrison's presidency lasted less than 32 days back in 1841, yet his ghost can still be heard, rummaging through the White H...