Staff Writer
- It is graduation season for many people, including 99 year-old Jessie Rose White. After completing courses for stenography and bookkeeping at Beal College in Bangor in 1939, she was unable to pay the $5 diploma fee. A friend of White, after hearing of her academic misfortune, paid the fee for her this year. When she received her diploma she said that she was “delighted.” She hopes to seek further education through the internet, as she is in a wheel-chair due to polio.
- Half sisters, 85-year-old Zelda Gates and 94-year-old Rita Knight, met for the first time just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gates was unaware she had a half-sister until reading her father’s will. After spending so many years apart from one another they finally met this Memorial Day weekend; they even discovered that they shared some family traits.
- Suspected vampire burial grounds were discovered in northwestern Poland. It was clear that it was a vampire grave because the teeth had been removed, a leg nailed to the coffin (to keep the body from rising), and a stone which was placed in the mouth. This myth will never die.
- We have all figured out who the tooth-fairy is, it’s but do you know about the “weed fairy”? Yeni Sleidi, or @danksyappleweed on Twitter, is the national “weed fairy,” who got the nickname by pinning posters saying “These are tough times. Take this WEED. And keep your spirits high” with free weed attached. Although marijuana is legal in Seattle, some are worried that it will get into the hands of people under the age of 21.
- The cast of the hit TV show The Wonder Years reunited on May 28. There were many photos taken. Although they were older, there was still a very prominent resemblance to their younger selves.
