Model Airplanes

It might be easy, from the perspective of someone who didn’t grow up reading “Peanuts,” to dismiss Charles M. Schulz’s magnificent daily meditation on the temporary triumphs and the minor, often hilarious cruelties that come with being human.

“Peanuts,” from the outside, was an industry based on simple line drawings, a marketing platform inked in Sunday color and then 3-D printed into any godawful tchotchke you could imagine and hundreds more that you wish somebody hadn’t.

But pick up one of the approximately 3,000 available “Peanuts” collections — especially the series from Fantagraphics that simply presents the strips as they were originally put before the public, chronologically — and live in it for a time.

There, you’ll encounter the peculiar genius of Schulz’s creation, the consistent excellence as he and his characters tried to earn at least a draw in the daily wrestling match with melancholy. What might look like simple nostalgia for childhood was actually a deep, complex stew.

The Milwaukee Art Museum’s current photography exhibit, The Open Road, features the works of many groundbreaking international photographers who were enamored with the idea of the Great American Road Trip. But there are American photographers, as well, who have the ability to show the country to their fellow Americans in a different way.

Minnesota photographer Alec Soth does that with his 2004 project, Sleeping By the Mississippi, which is represented in the exhibit. Soth’s images open a window to a world that is both familiar and foreign – photographs of subjects like a man in a balaclava and green union suit, holding model airplanes while standing on his roof; or a bed frame consumed by weeds.

But while the images are likely to spark thoughts in their viewers, Soth stops short of thinking of himself as a storyteller. “I have a real complex about storytelling and narrative,” he concedes.  “I long to be a storyteller, but that’s not exactly what photography does.

“I think it suggests stories, and you leave it to the viewer to kind of fill them in – that’s the great pleasure of looking at photographs.  But I envy storytellers.”

But even without a narrative arc, Soth says one image  does inform the next as he’s working on a project.  “Photography is this medium,

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KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — The Coast Guard is upgrading its fleet of multipurpose airplanes at an air station in Alaska to a newer model, officials said.

The current fleet of five C-130H airplanes at Coast

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There is no actual proof that Spike Lee tried out for the Morehouse College basketball team in the late 1970s. Further, it can’t be confirmed that Coach Arthur McAfee Jr. launched a legendary film career by looking at the 5-5 Lee and saying, “I want you to concentrate on something that you have as much passion about as playing basketball.”

What’s undisputed is that McAfee was a force at five colleges over 45 years, the last 35 years at Morehouse, including 28 as Athletics Director.

In 1990, several months after Morehouse earned a NCAA Division II Final Four berth, Sports Illustrated writer Billy Reed found McAfee in his third-floor office. The gym, with a capacity of 2,500,was one floor below.

Reed reported that McAfee’s total athletics budget was $350,000, compared to nearby Georgia Tech’s (then coming off its own Division I Final Four) $10 million.

“I don’t have a TV show, and I don’t have a shoe contract,” McAfee told the writer. “But when I look up there [at team photographs] and see 25 years, I know it hasn’t been a bad life.”

That long life and career ended March 7 when McAfee, 88, died of metabolic encephalopathy. Funeral services were March 21.

As a child, Guy Ferguson loved to build models from kits. Although he had to put the hobby aside during much of his adult life, he has rekindled his passion for models as a retiree. “It’s just something that I never outgrew,” he says.

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