Northern Express Prints Marty's Yearbook Memories

Marty Scott's senior Picture, West Bloomfield HS, 1968

The 8/28/17-9/3/17 issue of Northern Express (page 22) Has a feature called Yearbook Memories marking the start of the school year with ancient yearbook pictures from the distant past of six local "accomplished artists" with some of their school activities and memories.  It includes Marty Scott's 1968 high school picture and the following description.

Activities:  Long before he was running his eclectic, independent performing arts venue in Downtown Petoskey's Gaslight District, Scott was an earnest high school student involved in a well balanced slate of activities.  "I was on the debate team and student council, taking AT chemestry, in the ski club and also in the square dancing performance group," Scott said.

Memories:  Scott's musical aspirations started early: "I wanted to be Bob Dylan," he said. In his opinion, his high school days were a time when "the best music in the history of the world" was on the radio -- and the world itself was in an interesting state of flux.  "President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run for re-election, the Vietnam war was raging on, and we were all about to go to college and change the world."   Scott said. "What could possibly go wrong?":

Thank you Kristi Kates!

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Red Sky Stage Radio is On the "Air"

News, arts and event from and about Petoskey!

The New, Improved Red Sky Stage Radio is On The "Air"

The excitement and anticipation has been building for a few months and the time is finally here!  On Monday, February 1,we officially launched Greater Metropolitan Petoskey's own community arts, news and events Internet radio station.   We feature a live morning talk show, regular topical features by interesting people doing wonderful and creative things right here in Petoskey and lots of music by local Northern Michigan artists and others from around the country who have performed at Red Sky Stage.

Best of all, we broadcast, er, webcast, from the front windows of  Red Sky Stage right on Mitchell Street in the middle of Downtown Petoskey's Gaslight District.  And it is easy to find and listen to on your computer, laptop or smartphone.

When we started Red Sky Stage, one of the first things we did was create an  Internet radio station focused on Greater Metropolitan Petoskey.  We had a lot of fun with it but our engineering technical guru, Jason, decided to leave the pristine shores of Little Traverse Bay and follow his fortune to the tar sands fields of North Dakota.

After waiting for him to return so we could reopen the station, we finally realized that that was not going to happen any time soon and we really missed that radio station.  So we gritted our teeth, rolled up our sleeves and decided that a few reasonably intelligent folks with a rudimentary misunderstanding of the Internet ought to be able to create an even better community radio station for Greater Metropolitan Petoskey. 

We found some nice, simple software that the developers claimed anybody could use to start a radio station and begin Internet operations in only a few hours.  We figured if anybody could do it in a few hours, we could probably do it in a few months so we gave it a try.  After a week or so of  trying to open the box, we thought we might just be able to pull it off.

We do need help to make this a real community effort so if you have ever wanted to be a part of a local, community oriented Internet radio station, now is your chance.   Go to the Internet Radio page in this website and check out the list of volunteer opportunities we think we need to fill.  If you want to do any of these things, let us know.  if you have something else you would like to do, we probably need that too.