Happy Father's Day!

The first observance of a "Father's Day" was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father when, on December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested her pastor Robert Thomas Webb to honor all those fathers.

Although not as popular as Mother's Day, it's popular to celebrate Father's Day by hoisting a few beers and hanging around that ancient cooking tradition-the fire pit and of course, enjoying one's favorite sporting event.

Upgrade Dad's Day Dinner with these Delicious Additions

>Whiskey butter: Spiked butter adds sizzle to steaks & tastes great on BBQ faves like steak , cornbread, biscuits and grilled corn. On medium low speed, beat 1 cup salted butter, at room temp until light & fluffy, add 4 tsp. Whiskey, 2 tbs. Chopped parsley & 1 clove minced garlic, mixing well. Spoon into a small crock or roll into a log & wrap in parchment paper; freeze until set [about 30-minutes] and chill until ready to serve.

>Beer Float: Spoil dad with something decadent and delicious -an ice-cream float fizzing beer! Pour 8 oz. Of beer in a glass then spoon on two scoops of ice cream. Here are a couple of ideas to try:

Chocolate & vanilla-pair a rich chocolate stout such as Young's Double Chocolate Stout with sweet vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of chocolate sauce
Citrus Splash using pale ales like Samuel Adams IPA, have citrus and floral notes that taste great with tangy sorbets like lemon, lime or peach.
Irish Cream- a scoop of zingy mint chip ice cream is the perfect complement to the rich, caramelized taste of Guinness.
Java Heaven-coffee loving dads will enjoy pairing coffee ice cream with an espresso stout such as Flying Dog's Kujo Imperial Coffee Stout.

No doubt, there are plenty of gals who would enjoy these as well on a hot summer day-enjoy!

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Find a long lost loved one

If Google isn't doing the trick, a people finder such as sites like Pipi.com and Spokeo.com which search more databases, social networks and public records than basic internet searches.

You can check with your friend's college website for an alumni database or high school-check with AlumniClass.com, a search site that you to the alumni link you need.

Finally, check with the military. If you know your friend has served, look at Military.com. The site offers a free 'Buddy Finder' search engine that scours 20 million records to help locate loved ones.

Professional researchers look at property tax and utility records and public records which are all available online such as Peoplelooker.com and SocialCatfish.com [fees apply]

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Amateur Polaroid Pinups-The Beginning of Home Porn?

The warning, 'don't try this at home' is typically applied to dangerous stunts. But when new galleries of images tucked away in dresser drawer drawers were any indication, it seems the dawn of the homegrown pin-up photograph had come of age.

As a teen growing up in NE Ohio my friends played in the woods of a park system the state dubbed the 'emerald necklace, for green chain they formed around the city. It was our favorite haunt to haunt to hike and bike. It was also a favorite a spot favored by young lovers. In our wild youth we scared the 'bejesus' out of many by racing up to their vehicle as they were getting 'settled in' and beating on their doors and shouting.

Luckily for us we were in terrific shape and knew the woods well as we never got caught by these angry lovers.

Once we witnessed a pair of lovers marching off into the woods in the later afternoon carrying a blanklet and one of those new-fangled Polaroid camera – perfect for capturing 'nature' shots.

It wasn't long before those two sheepish lovers came out of the woods trailed by a park ranger.

When I attended ASU I carried my trusty Canon AE-1 everywhere to grab images of the desert, cacti, mountains and all the beautiful women on campus...it was a great way to meet girls.

While on vacation with his family, Edwin Land's 3-year-old daughter asks why she “can't see the picture he has just taken of her.” That day, Land conceives of the instant camera. By the 1950s he's patented his miracle camera and millions of folks are using it to make family memories and to take home porn and nude pinups without fear of the neighborhood snooping censor at the drug store ready to call the police...just wait until video cameras and digital cameras and VCRs come along. The porn age really takes off!

Initially, women rented more pornographic video tapes than men as it allowed for more privacy and it helped spell the end of so-called seedy X-rated movie house.

It's Getting Tougher to Find a Decent Mate

The Me-Centered Society

We live in a “me-centered” society in which tens of millions of us are literally in love with ourselves. When pleasing self becomes the highest priority, that doesn’t leave a lot of room for the kind of self-sacrificial love that marriage requires. An astounding 24 billion “selfies” were uploaded to Google last year, and that says a whole lot about where we are at as a nation. So many of us are inclined to stay with our “partners” for only as long as they make us happy, and the instant that ends many of us wish to dispose of them. And that is a lot easier to do if you are “living together” instead of being legally married.

A Lot Of Young Men Of Marriage Age Have Turned Into Bums

Have you noticed that a lot of young men in their twenties and thirties would rather spend all day watching television and playing video games than doing something constructive?

And record numbers of them have moved back home with no apparent intention of moving out. Today, 32 percent of all American Millennials are living at home with Mommy and Daddy. In some cases this is being done out of necessity because there aren’t enough good jobs, but in other cases it is simply pure laziness.

So what are quality young women supposed to do?

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

It's not news that all sorts of supposedly fun activities have grown harder to distinguish from work says Lidijja Haas Harper's. But dating according , according to author Moira Weigel, has never been anything but a rigged game that sucks away each participant's time, money and emotional energy-like an unpaid internship, we're told. Near the close of her searching history of the custom, Weigel concedes that she happened to find true love while writing the book. More often, however, the traps set by dating rituals come across as 'the stuff of horror movies.'

Those patterns begin with the very first dates: In the late 19^th century, when young single women began moving to cities for low-wage work, they could afford to have fun only by letting men take them out – a practice that won them the label 'charity girls' and insults far worse.

In the 1920s, every college woman was urged to 'shop around' and the more men she dated, the more she rose in social status. In the 1950s, that earlier generation was amazed when teens dtsrted pairing up and going 'steady.'

Many have said dating is simply a ritual or strategy used to obtain economic security or romantic love...many of us aren't sure what we want. Dating can be a lot of fun, an adventure or a nightmare. There are no clear instructions.

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