I’ve been asked by several people if I’ll be attending Husker Harvest Days. Wish I could but I’ll be conducting a new media training class for ag communications grad students at the University of Guelph. This will be the big 3-0 for the show.

Husker Harvest Days has a special memory for me because I attended on September 11 in 2001. I remember driving there from Omaha, NE with Kim Lang who was my boss at the time when I worked for DTN. We had the radio on kind of low in the car that morning and weren’t really paying any attention. When we got to the show and walked in one of the first places I walked up to was a booth that had a tv and a growing crowd around it. I walked up wondering what was going on and like everyone else I was horrified and glued to the screen from that moment on. I think it was an Army recruitment booth if I remember correctly. By late in the day I think most of the booths there had acquired a tv to follow the events.

We drove back to Omaha the same day that President Bush landed there at the Air Force base. I think he had left by the time we got back. I then drove home to Missouri and kept looking at the skies, especially when I passed Kansas City International airport. It was eerie not to see planes flying.

So, I’ll miss the show this year but I’ll be flying to Toronto next Tuesday. I feel very safe doing so by the way.