Whipple Road in Smithfield, RI: A Question

Last night I received the following query from a Whipple Website visitor:

Do you know of any tragedy to a child at any time on Whipple Road in Smithfield? We bought a house ... and my daughter is "seeing" things and hearing things. Something about a young boy maybe around age 8 with blonde hair and brown eyes.

If you have insight, please comment.

Thanks!!

WW

Twitter Update

After a week or so of using using my own name as the Twitter name for the Whipple Website, I noticed that many other sites use the name of their web site. I began to ask myself what would be wrong with using the Whipple Website as my Twitter name.

Unable to find anything wrong, I changed the address to:

http://twitter.com/WhippleWebsite

Sorry for the confusion!

(Note that there is no space between "Whipple" and "Website"; also that Twitter is case insensitive: you can also use http://twitter.com/whipplewebsite.)

Tweets about the Whipple Website

When I signed up for Twitter several months ago, I was clueless about what I could ever do with it. (Hmmm... maybe I'm clueless now as well.)

Then I heard on the radio that Iranian dissidents were using it to communicate among themselves. This evening my son mentioned that he has to send a "Tweet" to his flight instructor every time he returns from a solo airplane flight.

Suddenly I had an idea about using Twitter for the Whipple Website. The Whipple Website has a "Recent Changes of Note" page that I update occasionally (interpretation: hardly ever)--far less frequently than I actually make changes to the Whipple Website. It's just too time-consuming to update that page. (Well, I will probably continue to post very major changes there.)

Here is the idea: I will post Tweets whenever I regenerate the WhippleGenWeb or make some other notable modification to the database. We'll see how it goes. If you want to follow me on Twitter, visit http://twitter.com/WeldonWhipple. [Note: on July 3 it changed to http://twitter.com/WhippleWebsite.] Sign up for Twitter if you haven't already, then start following me.

We'll see how it goes. By the way, there are many guides to Twitter on the Internet. One that might be helpful is this "Newbie's Guide to Twitter."

I just sent me first tweet about the WhippleGenWeb, announcing that I just started a job to regenerate the WhippleGenWeb, and that it should be finished by tomorrow. If I remember, I will Tweet as soon as it comes online.

Mona Leigh on Coast to Coast AM

I just received a note from Mona Leigh (a descendant of Captain John Whipple and his wife Sarah (of Providence, Rhode Island). Mona writes:

Last night on Coast To Coast AM radio program they played a song off of my album, "Comes The Light" in their "Emerging Artist" segment.

I'm wondering if you would be so kind as to go to the site at http://www.CoasttoCoastAM.com and then click on the link to my web site?

I'm hoping that people showing interest might persuade them to play another of my tunes at some point, and since they have 10 million listeners every night, it could be good for CD sales. Much appreciated if you have the time. I'm not sure how much longer the link will remain on their web page and probably should have thought of this earlier in the day.

Thanks mucho

Mona Leigh

If you can't find the link, you can go directly to Mona's website. Some of you might have heard of Mona's father, the actor Joel McCrea.

(By the way, I just visited the iTunes store and searched for Mona Leigh. I found two albums: "One Night in the City" and "Comes the Light." I already have a copy of "One Night in the City," so I purchased "Comes the Light.")

Noah Bean, Actor

I received an email yesterday, telling me about Whipple cousin Noah Bean, who appears on the TV series Damages. (Hmmm... When was the last time I watched TV? I still have a television, don't I? Does it still work?) Our cousin who sent this information says that Noah is the son of Ruth Harriet Whipple (http://whipple.org/121022).

Noah appears in the Internet Movie Database, in Wikipedia, and elsewhere on the 'net. Good luck in your career, Noah!

(By the way, when I first visited Ruth's page, I immediately noticed a privacy bug in the program that generates the WhippleGenWeb. I had to fix it last night, before posting this blog entry ... :-)

Whippletree Farm Antiques, Wauconda, IL

Jeff Congdon submitted this photo today. It is the front of Whippletree Farm Antiques, located at 210 Main Street, Wauconda, Illinois. Jeff took the photo himself.

Thanks, Jeff!

Whipple, Naperville Central beat Huskies

I just received a note about Alex Whipple of Naperville, Illinois. It appears that he is the star player on Naperville Central High School's volleyball team. You can read about in the Daily Herald (published in suburban Chicago).

Way to go, Alex!!