Archive for November 8th, 2010

November 8th, 2010

Kennedy’s Acceptance Speech-50 Years Ago

by Tony

There’ s a big party tonight…at the John F Kennedy Library. Tonight library officials will re-create JFK’s election night party held fifty years ago, November 8, 1960. Because the race was so close, Kennedy didn’t discover he was elected president until the morning after the voting. Early on the morning of November 9, 1960 Secret Service agents arrived at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis to protect the newly elected President. Shortly after, Kennedy made his way to the Hyannis Armory to give his acceptance speech.

The video below shows the motorcade from the Compound to the Hyannis Amory and the President-elect’s speech.

November 8th, 2010

Universe in a Yard

by PaulM

Looking at the fallen leaves in my back yard and on the South Common this weekend, I noticed a visual correlation. Maybe I’ve been looking at too many pictures of the cosmos, but it occurred to me that the leaf-strewn ground, if turned downside up, could look a little like a view of deep space with countless stars packed together, their radiating light overlapping in colors tinted by the telescopic views.

Illustration by FourSeasons (web photo courtesey of featurepics.com)