Though we stayed, I personally turned my
attention into creating a
Website for my wife which is covered later
on. Of course unique situations also occurred in
WV. For one, The First Internet Broadcast of a Presidential
Town Hall took place in Clarksburg, West Virginia
On May 2, 1997.
Whereas, Major & Regional News
Networks, Politicians and the
Crème De La Crème were in attendance. With my communications job finished
I took a ringing phone next to abandoned technology peripherals two
minutes before President Clinton was presented.
I answered to to a frantic voice on the
other end. Then the First Internet Broadcast of a
Presidential Town Hall Meeting was announced minutes later. The First What? President
Clinton looked directly at me where I was thrust into the moment where a lovely ABC
News Correspondent planted herself
directly next to me, never leaving my side.
Adding to it all was that
Bell Atlantic / Verizon had invested greatly in
me where I had acquired my Fifth Certification
four weeks earlier in a then Intranet /
Internet. So, I was
not only caught cold, if the
Internet Town Hall failed I'd be blamed, if all
went well only a few would know.
The
Town Hall ended and the News Media immediately
came at me, pushing their microphones
over each other where my chair
tips backwards and I wave them off. Where
one Newscaster stayed and civilly asks if the
Picture Tel Video Conferencing Equipment
was the Internet? I inform her it wasn't where she asks if she could use
said Conferencing Equipment for her News Report on the Internet. I tried
to explain but the Internet was thrust upon the
pubic via a President.
Our
Vintage Car Hobby - News Articles
Horsham, PA July 2005 - Grundy Worldwide is proud to announce that Anthony &
Valerie Lacaria took home the First Place in their division at the All-Chrysler
Nationals held in Carlisle PA July 8-10. All at Grundy wish to congratulate them
and their stunning 1972 AMC Javelin for achieving such a great accomplishment.
Hungarian Successes
The Lacaria's are not exactly new to winning awards. Their 1956 Chrysler
Imperial won the same award at the 2003 Carlisle All-Chrysler Nationals and was
invited back to the "Survivors Area" of the Nationals in 2004 & 2005. The
"Survivors Area" is the best in the Nation of un-restored original
automobiles..... For additional information on the Carlisle All-Chrysler
Nationals, please visit the Carlisle Events atwww.carsatcarlisle.com.
European Excursions
A host of West Virginia
citizens assisted a foreign
couple in distress, who
had a car like our
1956 Imperial
where I was called for help. All of
which, led to a friendships and
incomprehensible American and
European Excursions and
Adventures to come.
In
addition to our new friends, a few
others stick out. A Vatican historian and lexicon of
knowledge. A
philanthropist of continual motion, who would pen historical
volumes and take the proceeds to purchase
supplies for the poor and then
accompany the supplies to their
designated locations to cut out
corruption. He challenging anyone's perspective of
life, death and the meaning of it
all. A great collector of postage
stamps, he'd be
honored with his own image on an
Austrian Postage Stamp.
European Sentiments
We were
taken to
places few
Americans
had been
before. We
also
entering an
American
Flagged 1959
Imperial in
Eger
Hungary's
International
land rally
where it was
judge
superior to
a
Russian-era
luxury sedan
parked next
to us.
All in all,
very
successful
excursions,
as shared in
the
sentiments
below...
"They
want to know
when the
Americans
are coming
back" "I would
have to make
a list of
the people
who send
their
regards" "They
were pleased
by the
respect
shown
towards the
historic and
cultural
aspects of
their
country" "You have
represented
your country
well; You
are from
America, so
they love
America" "To think
Americans,
Germans,
Hungarians
and
Romanians
all at one
table" "Hello,
Valerie,
hello,
Anthony and
family...We
have
received the
package ....
It is a
miraculous
recollection
of a
wonderful
holiday with
you…" "I was
surprised to
come across
your
painstaking
preparation
of Hungarian
Goulash and
thought that
your German
friends
might like
to know
about my new
book on the
famous
Hungarian
dessert
wine...The
title is 'Tokajiine
- Fame,
Fate,
Wine..."
Oh The Mountain State" -- "Ah Flatlanders
I See"
While in Toronto Canada my wife asked where she was from?
She answered WV where the response was respectful and emotional: "Oh The Mountain State."
Years later, on
May 22, 2011, we were driving down Austria's Grossglockner
Mountain Range where we had to stop as for our overheated
brakes. Our friend told the mechanic we were from WV where the
mechanic responded "Oh Flatlanders I See".
All
of which explains
www.trigoot.com.
A crossover website covering our excursions
in West Virginia,
America, Canada, Western and Central Europe as briefly
illustrated within the video on the right side.
