LightGramsOctober 5, 2023Volume 27, Number 27 The Kunsten Museum in Aalborg, Denmark had to take legal action. They had paid artist Jens Haaning over $70,000 to recreate two earlier works of art for display in an upcoming exhibition. Haaning agreed, and just before the show premiered, he delivered two framed empty canvases. He appropriately entitled…
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LightGramsDecember 1, 2022Volume 26, Number 36 Merriam-Webster, known for their publication of dictionaries of the English language, announced earlier this week their “Word of the Year for 2022”. The word “gaslighting” surprised even the editors, who said that there was no single story in the news that caused interest in the word to peak. The…
LightGramsApril 21, 2021Volume 25, Number 15 A traveler passing through security at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport was pulled aside. His luggage didn’t raise a red flag, but his breakfast burrito did. Once the alert was issued the burrito was scanned by Xray, and a small package with crystal meth was discovered inside. Needless the…
LightGrams February 4, 2021 Volume 25, Number 5 Bloodhounds are legendary for staying on the trail of someone authorities are searching for. Give the dog a whiff of the person’s clothing and they’ll usually track them down. Today other species of dogs are being employed to sniff out COVID-19. In Germany a Belgian Shepherd and…
LightGrams July 23, 2020 Volume 24, Number 25 The video from 1969 is grainy but powerful. President Richard Nixon’s address to the nation to announce the catastrophic end of man’s first mission to the moon was brief but emotional. Though his voice was shaking, he kept his composure. Wait a minute – what?! That mission…
LightGrams April 9, 2020 Volume 24, Number 13 Stephen Beach was only doing what I and many other preachers have been forced to do. After social distancing was mandated in England because of the coronavirus pandemic, Beach went online to members of the St. Budeaux Church in Plymouth, southwestern England. The story carried by Reuters…
LightGrams February 14 2019 Volume 23, Number 7 Cathy McAllister was just doing her job, the same as she had been doing for the past six years. She volunteers her time in Phoenix, Arizona going through donated books that ultimately are sold at the state fair for charities. When she came to a copy of…
LightGrams September 7, 2017 Volume 21, Number 30 A story carried by the Associated Press on August 31, 2017 notes that two professors at Penn State University have been awarded $300,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation. The grants will help fund a project in which the professors hope to develop programs that “will…
LightGrams July 13, 2017 Volume 21, Number 24 If you’re a dog, anyone who tosses you a meatball is your friend, even if they are a mail carrier. A dog in Madison County, Alabama might now disagree with that statement. Missy, the dog in question, had been the recipient of such tasty treats by Susanna…
LightGrams May 11, 2017 Volume 21, Number 16 The letter Melissa Fahy found in a gap under the stairs of her Westfield, New Jersey home was an old one. Written by a woman named Virginia to her husband, a sailor in the Norwegian Navy, it was postmarked May 1945. The letter was filled with love…