By Kevin Burton Do you know the story behind Cinco de Mayo? No, it isn’t the Mexican national Independence Day. That would be Sept. 16. Cinco is the celebration of a famous battle an undermanned Mexican army won over invading French troops at Puebla, Mexico. Puebla is the city I lived in …
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Young’s “Ohio” Is Ultimate Protest Song
by Kevin Burton At Kent State University they say May 4 the way all Americans say Sept. 11, the date being the only reminder needed of an unspeakable tragedy May 4 was the day in 1970 when Ohio National Guardsmen shot 13 Kent State students during a protest of the American invasion of …
A School For The Spiritually Blind
By Kevin Burton If you are a regular Page 7 reader, you have heard me talk about my days at the Ohio State School for the Blind. I didn’t want to be there at first, but grew to where I didn’t much want to be anywhere else. Well I now think it …
What Is Your Definition of Family?
by Kevin Burton At a church I attended in Columbus years ago, the pastor mistakenly referred to my “wife and kids” one day. Back then I had neither wife nor kids, but his mistake was understandable. I am mentioning this anecdote today as I try to define the term “family.” A good …
Bengals Needed Lineman, Not Receiver
by Kevin Burton Once again the Cincinnati Bengals failed in Cleveland. This time it was not on the field but in the NFL draft. The team failed to address its biggest need, offensive line, by passing on tackle Penei Sewell from Oregon to take Ja’Marr Chase a wide receiver from LSU. I’m …
This Tardy Gift Leads To Culinary Capers
by Kevin Burton Good things come to those who wait, so they say. Well, I have waited. This was supposed to be a gift for my wife’s birthday. Then I learned that it wouldn’t be shipped by then and not even by our anniversary two months later. Well here it is, finally, better …
Could The Beatles Have Rocked The 70s?
by Kevin Burton On my Amazon Echo device, Alexa Myers has made me a post-Beatles play list. She calls it Beatles playlist because I couldn’t make her understand the name I wanted for it. No matter. The list has my favorite tunes from the Fab four after their 1970 breakup. My first …
The Bible Warns Against Unequal Yokes
by Kevin Burton This week in the last of our series Ten Questions from the Bible you get five for the price of one. We’re looking at the issue of being “unequally yoked” from II Corinthians. The apostle Paul asks five questions, which are essentially the same: “Be ye not unequally yoked …
Letters From Hamburg: Road Trip Feeling
by Kevin Burton Some of my best memories are of road trips as a child, headed to track and wrestling meets. This was at the Ohio State School for the Blind. Those trips were a lifting of the ordinary into something special. My friends were there. We were sewing life fragments into a …
Two Shots, Two Weeks, Then What?
by Kevin Burton Yeah, OK, so now what? A growing portion of the world population has received a vaccine to combat the Covid-19. But this is no happy ending. In fact, it’s no ending at all. In March of last year in response to the virus, the global scientific community began what …
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