Snow day for me February 13, 2023 I woke a couple days ago with an idea for a new snow sculpture. I had taken the flag down from my Iwo Jima… Continue Reading
An Interview on UMD radio station regarding my snowsculpting February 7, 2023 Community Connection: Snow Sculpting with Harry Welty Continue Reading
Duolingo Complaints February 7, 2023 From the first weeks on Duoling five years ago I found people griping about how it made changes to the language learning game they… Continue Reading
Semper Fi January 23, 2023 Harry Welty’s latest snow sculpture recreates Joe Rosenthal’s famous WWII photo of the Marines raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima. My… Continue Reading
Two more Reader Columns January 15, 2023 Three Books It begins: It’s a good year when I read 10 books – histories mostly. Much to my wife’s chagrin I buy real… Continue Reading
Semper Fi January 13, 2023 My simplified version of the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima. Continue Reading
Another stab at blogging January 7, 2023 My foray back to blogging may not last long but I’ve just linked to a fine piece about a retiring NPR reporter John Burnett…. Continue Reading
A good man at NPR is retiring January 7, 2023 I’ll direct your attention to an eight minute interview of NPR reporter John Burnett on his retirment from NPR. The name didn’t register with… Continue Reading
The previous post begs more explanation January 6, 2023 The previous post Blogging has taken a back seat for a couple reasons for several years. List of reasons 1. I spend a couple… Continue Reading
Harry Welty also shoots off is mouth at: lincolndemocrat.com January 6, 2023 Not so much these days. The tag line above from my recent columns encourages people to come to this site to get my latest… Continue Reading
The Nine…..and the mirror image November 24, 2022 I finished my column early because of a stepped up Reader deadline. It seems printers like to enjoy their holidays too…..not to mention editors…. Continue Reading
Woo…………….My latest in the Reader November 17, 2022 Some random thoughts inspired by a very charming television program from South Korea now found on Netflix Continue Reading
The Big Lie November 16, 2022 I talked about the book The Oppermans the day before the election. I have been reading it to Claudia and today I finished the… Continue Reading
Grim and Bear it. November 8, 2022 We walked over to the UCC church a few blocks away to cast our votes this morning and were joined by neighbors heading the… Continue Reading
Paper Ballots This week’s reader column November 4, 2022 It begins: Last week I noted that in 1860 even in the Southern states, where Abe Lincoln was kept off the presidential ballot, no… Continue Reading
Three Horsemen of the Apolocalypse November 3, 2022 Belatedly…Here is my last week’s contribution to the Duluth Reader Today or tomorrow this week’s column will appear in the Reader. I’ll have to… Continue Reading
Extraordinary Attorney Woo November 3, 2022 We have found a lot of things to enjoy on television recently (we = my better half and me). Among them is the Korean… Continue Reading
deoxygenation November 3, 2022 Article: Volcanic trigger of ocean deoxygenation during Cordilleran ice sheet retreat – article to be found here. I only skimmed this story. Its been… Continue Reading
