Author: UncleLar

The head orphan and eldest surviving member of the Fall Family Clan.
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UncleLar’s Food Specialties

Ok – here’s another side of me that you all have probably never seen. I have a couple of legendary (pun intended) recipes that I usually break out for special occasions (usually called football tailgates) but that I am willing to share here.

First of all:

UncleLar’s Killer Kreole Kornbread Sausage Stuffing
(served when we deep fry a turkey at our tailgate)

Ingredients:

  • box of cornbread mix
  • 1 cup minced onion
  • 2 tablespoons chopped green basil
  • 4 teaspoons cayenne powder (or cajun seasoning)
  • 2 teaspoons onion powder
  • 2 teaspoons ground white pepper
  • 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 4 teaspoons dried oregano
  • 2 teaspoons dried thyme
  • 1 chopped green onion
  • 1 cup chopped parsley
  • 2 cups chopped red bell pepper
  • 2 green chili peppers, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon hot pepper sauce (Tabasco)
  • 8 oz butter
  • 2 cups chicken broth
  • 1/2 lb spicy Italian sausage (casing removed)
  • 2 cups evaporated milk
  • 7 eggs, beaten

Directions:

  1. Make the cornbread following the recipe on the box.
  2. In a small bowl combine the salt with the white pepper, black pepper, cayenne pepper, onion powder, oregano, thyme, basik, and bay leaves.
  3. In another bowl, combine the minced onions, green onions, parsley, red/green peppers, chili peppers, and garlic
  4. Melt the cup of butter in a large fry pan. Add the spices and cook for a few minutes. Add the vegetables and cook about 5 minutes. Do not allow the vegetables to brown.
  5. Place the sausage in the skillet, crumble and cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain.
  6. Add the chicken broth and the Tabasco. Stir and cook 5 minutes more.
  7. Crumble the cornbread into the skillet and mix.
  8. Add the evaporated milk and eggs off the heat. Make sure to stir when adding the eggs. Return to a low heat and cook, stirring, for about 2 minuts.
  9. Remove the bay leaves. Place the stuffing in a bowl and cover. Cool before stuffing turkey (the stuffing will be plenty HOT without needing any external heat) if serving with regular turkey or serve on the side with a deep fried turkey.

If you like spicy food, this recipe is a killer (hence the name). It’s great for tailgates because it warms the body.

Next Recipe:

UncleLar’s Chili Extraordinaire
(haven’t tried this in the crockpot yet)

Ingredients:

  • 3.5 lbs sirloin steak
  • 1 lb pork sausage
  • 3 medium white onions
  • 4 dried red New Mexico chiles
  • 4 chilpotle chiles
  • 2 7-oz cans chopped green chiles (optional)
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 tsp ground comino (cumin seed)
  • 1 tsp Mexican oregano
  • Mesquite seasoning
  • steak rub/lime juice/soy sauce
  • 4 10-oz cans diced tomatoes
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 3 fresh chopped sage leafs
  • 1/4 cup chopped celery
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • 6 pack of beer

Directions:

  1. Cut off the tops of the dried New Mexico chiles to remove the stems and seed and to expose the interior, leaving them as whole as possible. Cut the tops off of the Chipotles and cut them lengthwise to extract the seeds. Set all of the chiles aside steeping on a small saucer in hot water (just enough to cover).
  2. Dust the steaks with the Mesquite seasoning, then marinade in the lime juice and soy sauce after a little fork-poking. Pop a beer and grill the steaks over hot goals until medium, then set aside. Set aside a 1/2 lb to snack on while you finish the cooking.
  3. Get a big oven ready pot. Add the pork sausage, onion, garlic, and saute until the onion is soft.
  4. Chop the steaks into 1/2 inch cubes and add to pot. Add a beer of your choice (and probably time for another one for yourself).
  5. Back to the chiles. Remove the New Mexicos from the hot water and cut them in half, length-wise. For each half, carefully scrape off the inner pulp with a flat knife, angled away from the scraping direction. Then scrape the pulp off the knife into a blender. Add the water and the chilpotles, and blend into a sauce. Keep your face away from the sauce DO NOT try to smell it, it’s deadly on the eyes. BTW – if you have to go to the bathroom at any point in time I suggest using gloves – eyes aren’t the only thing that’s sensitive to the sauce.
  6. Add the ground comino, oregano, paprika, sage, celery, thyme, and the optional green chiles to the pot and add about half of the sauce. Pour in a bottle of beer and pop another for yourself.
  7. Put in a 300 degree oven for an hour. After an hour test for spice and moisture. Add more or all of the sauce, if you like. Consider adding another bottle of beer if the things appear to be drying out too much. Put back in the over for another hour.
  8. After the second hour, check for doneness. The sirloin should come apart easily and the gravy should be thick not water. Cooking another hour is not out of the question.
  9. Serve in bowls with cheese or use as a dip for tortillas.
  10. You might consider having milk, sherbet, ice cream, and/or cold cucumber slices handy because someone will need them. The chili has an extraordinary afterbite – hence the name.

Another excellent tailgate recipe, the chili keeps you warm just like the stuffing.

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Anyone have CSTV?

College Sport TV that is. CSTV is an all college sports TV cable network founded by a friend of mine, Chris Bevilacqua. I have some legend stories to tell about Bevi such as why Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza’s high school gym coach was named Mr Bevilacqua or how I met William Baldwin through Bevi, but they will have to wait for another day because this story is about – surprise – an UncleLar niece, Stacey Wild (just an FYI, I didn’t take the photo, it came from her Facebook profile – unfortunately, I think the link will only work for my Facebook buds, Chris and Elliot)

Stacey is a Penn State freshman who is majoring in journalism – she also swims for Penn State’s water polo team. About two months ago, CSTV canvassed Penn State’s journalism department looking for students to co-host a TV show that CSTV broadcasts called Total Access. Total Access is weekly show that takes place on various college campuses around the country (this month the show features Penn State, Ohio State, Notre Dame, and Stanford). It’s a TV magazine style show that tries to show you a little bit of the personal side of college athletics. While the show has a studio host most of the on campus segments are hosted by a local student (usually an athlete). Stacey was fortunate enough to be selected to be the host for CSTV Total Access Penn State Orange Bowl special. So she got to travel all over South Florida in the days leading up to the Orange Bowl showing folk all the normal pre-game hype that precedes a bowl game – pep rallies, night life, beach bashes, tailgateing, etc. (worked out to be a pretty nice gig for a kid just a few months out of high school). The show will broadcast on CSTV on Thursday night at 10PM EST (9PM CST time – the Utah folk will have to check their local listings) and I thought she did a very nice job.

Stacey relationship with me is similar to Natalie Berrena’s (they’re not just any old UncleLar nieces). I have a special affection for Natalie because I used to date her mother. And I have a special affection for Stacey because I used to live with her mother. She loves to introduce me to people with the comment “Larry could have been my father”.

When I moved from State College to Pittsburgh in 1977, I moved into a two bedroom apartment in Monroeville, a suburb of Pittsburgh (13 miles closer to State College – I lived there so the trips back to Happy Valley would be shorter). I had only been in Pittsburgh for a few weeks when I ran into an old acquaintance, Pat Fagan. Pat had been a member of the Pi Beta Phi sororiety at PSU and I had gone out with a few Pi Phis (actually too many – it seems a friend of mine and I once made a bet about how many Pi Phis we could get a date with – unfortunately, they found out and we paid a bit of a price for our little indiscretion, but that’s another story for another day).

Pat was getting her MBA at Pitt and was due to graduate soon. She was lamenting to me that she had just gotten a job with IBM in Pittsburgh and would be going through six months of training to sell copiers and typewriters (for you next generation Falls who have never seen a typewriter this is what one looks like – think of it as your computer keyboard attached to your computer printer minus the middlemen of the computer processor and display 🙂 ).

Pat was a little frustrated because she was going to have to move out of her apartment in Oakland (where Pitt is located) and find a new place to live yet she had no idea where her territory would be once she finished training (it could have been as far south as West Virginia). She said she was having an impossible time trying to find a place with just a six month lease. Since I had an extra bedroom, I just suggested that she move in with me – which she obviously did.

Pat lived with me for about a year and, while Stacey likes to joke about me being her father, there wasn’t much chance of that because Pat and I had a very much platonic relationship. We did sometimes have trouble convincing people of that because in that day and age guys and girls didn’t live together platonically very often (for that matter, they didn’t live together non-platonically that much either then).

The reality of the situation was that there wasn’t much opportunity for us to get involved anyway. I had a girlfriend that I would see almost every weekend (Joanie, the girl I mentioned in a previous thread – she was still in school and I would spend most weekends back in State College). And Pat, well she had TWO boyfriends, so there was definitely no time for me. I have to give Pat credit for ingenuity the way she juggled the two guys. Eric, the one in Pittsburgh, didn’t know about Fritz, the one back in State College. Fritz, however, did know about Eric. Pat was from State College so she simply convinced Eric that she was homesick and had to go back and visit her family all the time.

I could never understand why Fritz would put up with the arrangement but I guess he knew what he was doing. After about a year of living this dual life, Pat dumped Eric, quit her job with IBM and moved back to State College and married Fritz. They’ve been married for well over 25 years now so I suppose things worked out well in the long run.

That’s my Legend story for today. Hope it was mundane enough.

PS – check Stacey out if you get the chance Thursday at 10 EST (or set your TiVo – you all do have a TiVo don’t you?)

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Spring is in the air

Took advantage of the sudden warm weather to make a golf road trip yesterday. Nine of us headed a couple of hours south to Cumberland MD to the Rocky Gap Resort, just over the Pa/Md line. to play their Jack Nicklaus designed course.

The weather was in the mid to high 50s and the sun was out. It was quite comfortable, in fact I was even a little bit warm in the turtleneck that I was wearing.

I meant to take my camera with me but forgot so I had to be satisfied with shots from my phone. I was actually surprised at how well it turned out (the camera feature works much better at close range than it does at long range as the following show).

When I went to Rocky Gap’s website to get the links I was surprised to find a couple of shots that closely matched mine, so here are two of my camera phone shots (kind of ugly because of the poor lens quality, time of the year, and shooting into the sun) taken from the same spot as two of the photos on the website (Click here to see them – I can’t download them because they are imbedded in a Flash movie)

Eat your heart out guys.

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We had them all the way

It certainly looked like the football gods were smiling at JoePa (news alert – Joe chewed out a young reporter who called him that while down at the Orange Bowl – says he doesn’t like the name and wished he had said something years ago when it first started – PS: the name precedes JLo et al by 20+ years – personally, I think Joe started the trend ).

The game had a typical Penn State start to it – march down the field and score then seem to retreat into a defensive shell. Joe’s teams have always played that way. If we don’t have the offensive fire power to clearly overpower you, we play not to make mistakes. Unfortunately, when you play that way you often don’t make big plays either. Plus, when you play that way you keep your opponent in the game so that when you do make the almost inevitable mistake, it can be a truly costly one.

And make a mistake we most certainly did. It came halfway through the second quarter when while nursing a 7 point lead we let down on punt coverage – 10 seconds later the game was tied. FSU fed off that electrifying punt return to force a three and out, then quickly followed it with a one play touchdown drive (that gave them two scores in 80 seconds) and we trailed 13-7 despite having dominated FSU statistically.

Before that punt return, here’s what Florida State’s drives looked like:

  1. 7 plays for 16 yards and a punt
  2. 4 plays for -4 yards and a punt
  3. 3 plays for 2 yards and a punt
  4. 3 plays for -6 yards and a punt
  5. 4 plays for 6 yards and a punt
  6. 4 plays for 26 yards and an interception

That’s 25 plays for a total of 40 yards.

Our defense is just smothering. Two years ago, Tom Bradley our defensive coordinator told me that we were going to have a pretty good football team this year – he was certainly right. Paterno certainly thought that we were going to be good. I heard from a friend of mine that works for the football program that before the season started Paterno had called the team together and told them that he thought they had the tools to be a pretty special team. He flat out said that he wasn’t talking about a B10 championship either. He told them the team could go undefeated and challenge for the national championship (we were one second away from doing that . The team bought into it too. At the beginning of the season, whenever they broke the huddle after timeouts they would shout “Rose Bowl” in unison. At the beginning of the year, I thought it was pretty silly on the team’s part – after the Ohio State win, I was starting to believe too.

Back to the game.

Trailing by one, the offense responded just as it has every other time this year that it needed to (at Northwestern we drove the length of the field with time running out at the end of both halves to score TDs – btw, the Derrick Williams TD to give PSU the win at the end of the game is up for the Pontiac Game Changing Performance award to be announced at halftime tonight at the Rose Bowl). This time it only took 11 seconds for them to put a toucdown on the board.

Ethan Kilmer, the kid that made the acrobatic catch in the end zone for the touchdown is an interesting story – he never played football in high school. Normally, when you hear a story like this it turns out that the kid is a big black kid from Africa who never had the opportunity to play but when he shows up in this country he’s turned into a defensive lineman where all he has to be told is “go get the guy with the ball” (see the Tamba Hali story).

Not Ethan. Ethan is a white kid from football crazy Pennsylvania. He was a basketball and track guy in high school placing in the high jump in the state championships. He went to Shippensburg expecting to run track but never went out for the team feeling burned out. After a couple of years floundering around at Shippensburg, Ethan decided that he wanted to major in Kinesiology, a major that wasn’t offered at Shippensburg so he transferred to Penn State. On a whim he tried out for the football team and made the squad as a walk-on. Two years later and he is starting at wide receiver (his athleticism is legendary, rumored to have a 48″ vertical, and several people think he has an excellent shot at making an NFL squad because of his special teams play)

So we go into halftime leading 14-13, which allows us to go back into our “let’s be ultra careful and not make a mistake” offense and count on the defense to lead us to victory. Sure enough the defense responds absolutely shutting down FSU. Here’s all that FSU could muster following the touchdown pass that they got in the second quarter.

  1. 3 plays for 2 yards and a punt
  2. 1 play for 0 yards and the half ends
  3. 3 plays for 5 yards and a punt
  4. 3 plays for 3 yards and a punt
  5. 3 plays for 5 yards and a punt
  6. 4 plays for 8 yards and a turnover on downs
  7. 3 plays for 4 yards and a safety

That’s 20 plays for 27 yards and -2 points, an even better showing than the first half effort. Unfortunately, we are still playing it ultra cautious on offense and the only points we have to show are the two from the defense’s safety.

Still, I’m starting to feel a little comfortable when the offense drives down inside the FSU’s ten yard line. We are sitting on a three point lead and look about to go up ten (or at least a comfortable six) with under 10 to go when funny things start to happen. All of a sudden center EZ Smith doesn’t make a snap – his hand slips on the ball and it never gets back to the QB. FSU recovers on their own 5 yard line.

Time for another human interest story – EZ Smith. Only this one isn’t as positive as the others. Joe Paterno calls EZ a nice kid and says that he really likes EZ. That’s good because EZ has been guilty of some pretty stupid off the field incidents during his PSU career. Two years ago EZ was kicked off the team for underage drinking. While that seems a little harsh for something that all of us have done, there’s more to the story. EZ was cited by a campus cop for having an open container, i.e. a can of beer, outside his on-campus apartment following a PSU football game. OK – here’s where the “stupid” starts. Exactly one week later, EZ is once again caught by the same cop again outside his apartment with another can of beer in his hand. Adious EZ – end of the season for you. Scene shifts, and it’s a little over a year later, in January of 2005. EZ and his roommates decide to play a little game of darts in their apartment. Unfortunately this dart game has a little twist. Instead of darts, they use graphite arrows and a compound bow. When the residents of the apartment next to them call the police to object to the arrows that are piercing through their apartment wall, EZ’s goose is cooked. EZ is expelled from school for the spring and summer but is allowed to return for the fall. Halfway through the season he manages to work his way out of Joe’s doghouse and into the starting lineup.

Once again, back to the game.

FSU mounts a courageous drive and manages to go the length of the field to kick a game tying field goal with under five minutes to go. The score is 16-16.

Historical note. JoePa’s very first bowl game was the Gator Bowl in 1967 against Florida State (Bobby Bowden wasn’t the coach at FSU at the time) and the game ended in a 17-17 tie. In that game, Joe made one of his stupidest coaching decisions ever. PSU was leading 17-14 late in the game when we had the ball around our own 25 yard line. The Nittany Lions were trying to run out the clock when they got what Paterno thought was a bad spot from the referee on a second down play. Paterno thought the Lions had made a first down but the ref didn’t agree. On third and inches, the Nits once again came up short and Paterno once again felt we got a bad spot. Joe was irate and in a rash moment called for the team to go for it on fourth down. This time we clearly failed to make it, FSU took over on downs. They got nowhere but they were already in field goal position due to Joe’s dumb decision and they kicked the tying field goal.

However, ties are no longer allowed in NCAA football (a rule I don’t particularly like by the way), so we played on.

Frankly, the less said about the overtime the better. Let’s just say it was an emotional roller coaster with true freshman kicker Kevin Kelly finally winning it with his 29 yard field goal – a particularly gutsy kick since he had already missed twice with chances to win the game for PSU. Interestingly, the kick wasn’t supposed to happen – it was supposed to be a fake. The Nits went onto the field with a fake kick called but Florida State didn’t line up in the alignment that Penn State expected so holder Jason Ganter changed the call at the line of scrimmage to a real kick.

The Penn State win gave Joe his 354th victory and moved him only five behind Bowden 359 victories on the all time D1 wins chart. It also gives Joe a 7-1 record going head to head against Bowden (Joe is 1-1 against Bobby at Florida State and 6-0 against Bobby at West Virginia). Bowden’s 359 wins are a sore point with Nittany Lion fans. According to NCAA rules, once a coach has coached at a D1A school for ten years, ALL of his collegiate coaching victories count on his all-time record. Bowden started his coaching career at little known Howard (now named Samford) and has 31 wins at Howard that count toward his 359. There are some that think those wins shouldn’t count. When you look at who they are against, you just might agree. For the record, Bobby’s 31 Howard wins are:

  1. Maryville (TN)
  2. Sewanee (TN)
  3. Tennessee Tech Freshman (yup – TT can use only freshman)
  4. Millsaps (MS)
  5. Tennessee Martin
  6. Rhodes (TN)
  7. West Alabama
  8. Troy State
  9. Gordon JC (even junior college wins somehow count)
  10. Maryville (TN)
  11. Sewanee (TN)
  12. Georgetown (KY)
  13. Millsaps (MS)
  14. Delta St (MS)
  15. West Alabama
  16. Rhodes (TN)
  17. Troy State (AL)
  18. Millington Naval Air Station (yup – a win over a Naval Air Station counts)
  19. Georgetown (KY)
  20. Wofford (SC)
  21. Delta St (MS)
  22. Carson-Newman (TN)
  23. Rhodes (TN)
  24. Troy St (AL)
  25. Tennessee-Chattanooga
  26. University of Mexico (yes Mexico not New Mexico)
  27. Louisiana College (no not LSU)
  28. Furman (SC)
  29. Carson-Newman (TN)
  30. Mississippi College (not the one in the SEC)
  31. Wofford (SC)

Somehow they don’t seem to stack up against JoePa’s first thirty (and for the historical record here they are):

  1. Maryland
  2. Boston College
  3. West Virginia (Bowden was an assistant at WVU then)
  4. California
  5. Pitt
  6. Miami
  7. Boston College
  8. West Virginia
  9. Syracuse
  10. Maryland
  11. NC State
  12. Ohio
  13. Pitt
  14. Navy
  15. Kansas State
  16. West Virginia
  17. UCLA
  18. Boston College
  19. Army
  20. Miami
  21. Maryland
  22. Pitt
  23. Syracuse
  24. Kansas (in the Orange Bowl – JoePa’s first bowl win)
  25. Navy
  26. Colorado
  27. Kansas State
  28. West Virginia
  29. Syracuse
  30. Ohio
  31. Boston College

I think you can understand why PSU fans object to Bowden being labeled the winningest coach in D1 history.

And now you know the rest of the story.

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A New Years Memory

It’s a little strange sitting home watching football on New Years after so many years of being at bowl games for the holidays (for the record I’ve been to 23 bowl games) but with the slump that Penn State was in before this season I’ve started to get used to it.

One trip that stands out was thirty years ago. Penn State played Alabama in the first Sugar Bowl in the Superdome on New Years Eve December 31st 1975. The game started at about 8 PM local time and seemed to drag on forever. Penn State wound up losing 13-6 with the game ending a little past 11:30 which meant that we were going to have to rush to get down to Bourbon Street before midnight.

I was with Tod Jeffers and he and I rushed to the famed Pat O’Brien’s. Unfortunately, hundreds of others had the same idea and we wound up trapped in line during a rainstorm. Sure enough, midnight struck with us still in line. Cheers and noisemakers started going off and everyone started hugging and kissing their dates. Bummer, we had lost the game, we were soaking wet, and we had failed to get into the bar before midnight – the night wasn’t going well at all.

At that point I looked up and there was this cute blond coed dressed in Penn State blue standing in line just in front of me. Time to seize the moment. I just grabbed her, wished her a Happy New Year, and laid a big kiss on her. The kiss must have worked because I wound up dating her for about 3 1/2 years.

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Ice Ice Baby

Just a follow up to my post yesterday on the First Night Festivities in State College. I went back down last night and took some more photos of the ice sculptures. Ice is a difficult subject to photograph. I tried three different approaches each of which has a unique perspective.

The daylight shots show the detail in the ice better than any of the others but just don’t capture the wet glistening look. The figures could be made out of plastic for all you can tell from the photos.

For the night shots, I tried taking photos both with the flash on and with it off. With the night shots, the ice takes on the transparent look that is missing from the daylight shots. The flash also gives you a nice glistening look that is missing from the other too approaches. Unfortunately, you lose some of the detail that you can see in the daylight shots. Also the flash overpowers much of the front lighting that the scene has and the result isn’t the same as it appears to the naked eye.

That leaves night shots without a flash. Of course that approach presents some exposure, focus, and camera shake challenges but they are overcomeable. Without the flash, you are able to see both the front and back light that is illuminating the scene. Unfortunately, I think the long exposures over accentuate the available light to the detriment of the subject itself. I think you lose too much detail in the subject (of course, it could just be that I wasn’t able to find the correct combination of lighting and exposure).

Here are some shots from yesterday that demonstrate what I am talking about.

First for completeness sake, yesterday I showed the preliminary ice sketch of the continental soldier, and I wanted to show you the finished product. Here’s yesterday’s daylight shot along with two photos from last night – first with, then without flash.

Here are some shots that really highlight the differences from the three approaches.
This sculpture is of Admiral Peary who is generally considered to be the first person to reach the North Pole (how appropriate for an ice sculpture).

This is probably my favorite shot from last night. It was taken with flash, and is just part of the Jeremy Rose/Afleet Alex sculpture.

I’ve update the online album by adding last nights photos. You can view both yesterday afternoon’s and last night’s photos by clicking here.

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First Night State College

Like many communities around the country, State College likes to offer a family oriented alcohol free alternative to New Year’s Eve partying (personally I consider it a supplement to my alcohol based celebrating 🙂 ) called First Night State College. The centerpiece of the celebration is a bunch of ice sculptures throughout the town. This afternoon, I went out and took some photos of the ice carvers at work to give you a feel for some of the cool (no pun intended) stuff that they have.

Most of the main large sculptures are on Allen Street, in the very heart of downtown State College just across from the main entrance to the University. The town fathers have closed off a block of Allen Street to house the sculptures. At the head of the block stands this sculpture of William Penn.

This shot it taken from the other end of the street. The ice artist here is working on a sculpture of a continental soldier. If you click on the photo a couple of times, it will blow up in your browser and you can get a good look at the some of the other sculptures spread down the street all in various stages of completion (just for a historical reference, the five story building in the distance behind the sculptor is the Metzger building where Pat Daugherty and I lived from 1966 to 1968).

Here’s another shot of an ice guy working on a sculpture of jockey Jeremy Rose riding Kentucky Derby winner Afleet Alex. Jeremy is a local kid from nearby Bellefonte.

I’ve uploaded a bunch of shots of the dozen or so sculptures on Allen Street. Click here to see them.

I’ll be downtown tonight and will get some more shots of the sculptures. I expect that they will look quite unique in the night lighting.

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I’ve added a calendar

If you’ll look to the sidebar on the right, you’ll notice that I have added a calendar. You can move forward and backward a month or year at a time by clicking on the > and > and
At the moment that’s about all you can do, but in the future I plan on adding more function to it. Eventually, we should be able to use it to navigate to all posts made on a specific date simply by clicking on the appropriate date in the calendar. I will also probably find a way to highlight everyone’s birthday in the calendar too.

Hope it adds to the blog.

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A New Goody – "On This Day"

While doing research for the Upcoming Birthdays Countdown, I found a website called New Links, which had this post on how to add an “On This Day” function to your blog. The code to do so was fairly simple so I’ve decided to add it to our Blog.

What the code generates is a series of links to web resources (I’ve chosen to implement just the BBC, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, NY Times, and the History Channel links) that publish historical information on what happened on any date in history. The links are located just after the dateline that appears before the lead post of the day (look just above the title of this post). Try clicking on any of the links above to see what historical events happened on December 23rd.

The links should be repopulated back through the archives so he should be able to check out dates on any of Legends of the Fall blog entries.

Have a go at it.