June 21st

Summer began today at 12:06 PM MDT. NewMexiKen was at about 12,000 feet on a short hike in Rocky Mountain National Park around then. It was in the low 60s and blustery, with snow fields still all about.

Jane Russell

Jane Russell is 86 today. She was 36D when she made The Outlaw for Howard Hughes. He discovered her at his dentist, where she was a receptionist.

Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross, the wife and husband on the TV sitcom Family Ties, are both 60 today. Alex, their son on the show, was played by Michael J. Fox, who was 45 on June 9th.

Novelist Ian McEwan is 59.

Juliette Lewis is 34 today. She was 18 when she played the daughter in Cape Fear, and received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination.

Prince William is 25.

It doesn’t really matter but existentialist philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was born on this date in 1905.

New Hampshire ratified the U.S. Constitution on this date in 1788, thereby becoming the ninth state. Nine was the necessary number to put the Constitution into effect. Live Free or Die.

2 thoughts on “June 21st”

  1. you must be in outstanding shape to hike at that altitude. i remember hitchhiking into grand junction from the flatlands and going out dancing that same night and was soon winded even at that modest elevation.

  2. You’re kind but it was a stroll more than a hike, I did get winded at first, and I do live at 6,000 so I have some advantage.

    But, bottom line, I was reminded I don’t get enough exercise.

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