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A Case of the Human Condition: It’s the Fourth of July!

July 4, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

By Barbara Falconer Newhall

fourth-of-july-american-flag-michgan-2007It’s the Fourth of July 2007, and the Scottville, Michigan, Clown Band — famous in those parts — is struting its stuff in the streets of nearby Pentwater. I got a seat right on the curb, with a pretty good and only partially obscured view.

Oh, say can you see  — through those legs?

Photos by B.F. Newhall

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I Can’t Believe I Got in the Water With That 1400-Pound Whale

Marine World foto, Newspaper reporter Barbara Falconer Newhall in wet suit and Marine World trainer Deirdre Ballou in boots and rain coat with bottle-nosed dolphin Spock at edge of tank in 1979. Marine World photo.

Last weekend I watched the CNN documentary “Blackfish” and saw a Sea World trainer attacked and pulled underwater by an out-of-control killer whale. I had to wonder — could that have been me? “Blackfish” traces the deadly history of killer whales at places like Sea World, and it brought back memories of the day I found myself in a tank of water with a 1400-pound pilot whale named Koko. Read more.

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