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M is for Mom and Mars

May 12, 2013 by utpress Leave a Comment

When I was a toddler living in East Fort Myers, my mom bought me a Fisher-Price red plastic telescope. She showed me how to insert rectangular slides with images of the moon and planets through the viewfinder.  The telescope couldn’t show me the real night sky, just the printed images, but sometimes the two of … [Read more…]

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