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Find My Bear

LightGramsJanuary 8, 2026Volume 30, Number 2 Airports are busy places with travelers dashing to make connections and staff processing passengers and luggage on tight timelines. It was a surprise, therefore, when the Norfolk (VA) International Airport posted on their social media site an appeal for help in finding someone. A teddy bear had been discovered…

From Castoffs To Art

LightGramsDecember 18, 2025Volume 29, Number 40 Barnaby Wickam is a collector, something that can be said of many people. But Wickam’s focus in collecting – and what he makes of it – sets him apart from others. This Baltimore, MD marketing specialist is an avid cyclist, and for the past two years has picked up…

Full Disclosure

LightGrams February 6, 2020 Volume 24, Number 5 If your job is to run a web site to attract tourists to your city, what do you highlight? Highly-rated restaurants? Beautiful local scenery? High crime rates? Lots of things to do? Wait – rewind a bit – “high crime rates”?! Is that any way to attract…

Is This Your Ring?

LightGrams April 18, 2019 Volume 23, Number 15 An unnamed lady who works at a Sam’s Club store in Houston found a ring three years ago. It was a class ring from The University of Houston, and had apparently been dropped into a case of water. The lady took it home, thinking she would try…

His Dead Son Is Alive

LightGrams June 29, 2017 Volume 21, Number 22 Frank Kerrigan had two phone calls in May that he’ll never forget.  The first was with the Orange County (CA) Coroner’s Department.  In that call he learned that a man’s body had been found behind a store in Fountain Valley.  The body, he was told, was that…