People, Not Just Places

They (the omniscient "them") say that there are two sides to every story. But the tales of dads are polyhedrons — a shoutout to Thing 2 who is now mathing them at school.

So when the Country Music Hall of Fame wanted to celebrate his father as a way to bring in a bit more tourist business, Hank Williams Jr. became a hard son to romance. His dad's musical legacy claimed many children, but his biological offspring were left with some more difficult issues to deal with in life. [Earlier: Embrace, Escape, Repeat]

But the study of one father's family tree was grown in Nashville and "Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy," will be available for vacationers and others through December 2009.

Not that every vacation has to go somewhere to be joyfilled. Some vacations can be ecstatic celebrations of simple love, as when Ohio's Andre Sanders took his place among fathers with their children when he took a vacation day to build a Rain Gutter Regatta sloop with daughter Andrea.

** And now Things 1, 2 and Me are off. **