John Quincy Adams and Me
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
For 166 years, only John Quincy Adams could claim to be both the son of a president and a president himself. Like George W. Bush, he would also have his father’s first name. And like his father John Adams, he would be a one-term president. His tenure as Secretary of State was a much bigger success than his Presidency. He negotiated the annexation of Florida, ended the War of 1812, negotiated our northern border with Canada, and was the author of the Monroe Doctrine. But his tenure as the sixth President of the United States from 1825-1829, was sabotaged by a Congress controlled by many of political enemies, including Andrew Jackson, to whom he’d lose the election of 1828. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Petersen had a rather lucrative TV career for nearly thirty years. He appeared in such shows as My Three Sons, F Troop, Lassie, The Flying Nun, Matt Houston, the unsold pilot of High School U.S.A., and in the Walt Disney film The Happiest Millionaire. But without a doubt his most notable role was in The Donna Reed Show, in which he portrayed Donna’s son Jeff Stone in 275 episodes. Back in the late 1990’s, I had my friend Bob pick me up a signed photo of Paul Petersen (directly below), but my chance to meet him didn’t come until February 11, 2012. 
My friend Dean is a huge fan of Laura Vandervoort. He was willing to stand in line again, buy another autographed photo, and take advantage of the $45 photo op, even though he had already met her before at a Superman Celebration in Metropolis, Illinois. Me…not so much. Of course it’s true that I love all things Superman, and of course Laura is smoking hot both onscreen and in person, but I just can’t call myself a big fan. This was the conclusion that I came to when I got the chance to meet her at the Wizard World Comic Con on August 11, 2012.