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Cains: A Boeing in a garage
My father was a typical Indiana boy who loved baseball, dogs, and airplanes. All three of these loves came crashing together in the spring of ...
Rich Cains, Author at Leader Publications
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Column: A Chill and a Cheer
As Old Man Winter beckons his fight,
by Rich Cains, Friday, December 23, 2022 1:03 pm
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A post-Thanksgiving day margin of error
DOWAGIAC — At the time of this writing, my family Thanksgiving Day celebration will not have yet begun. Based on several years of experience I ...
by Rich Cains, Thursday, November 24, 2022 8:00 am
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Fame or meeting fame?
In 1966, a crowd gathered around Andy Warhol as his photographer was trying to take photos for a proposed book. Warhol supposedly remarked that “everyone ...
by Rich Cains, Thursday, October 20, 2022 1:00 pm
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CAINS: ‘Tis the season of transition
Here we are in mid-September with 80-degree weather on one day and a brisk 49-degree temperature to kick off the next. That seems like an ...
by Rich Cains, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 11:00 am
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Cains: The good old days
As a child I was extremely lucky. I had two loving parents, four siblings and about fifty relatives living in my hometown. I was fortunate ...
by Rich Cains, Friday, August 19, 2022 6:00 am
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Column: First light
I was not a very good grade school student, per se. My baseball skills, airplane and rocket building techniques along with my ability to blow ...
