Dear Readers, Today I ask you to stop, take a deep-breath, and remember. Are your youthful memories precious? Are they worth a few minutes of silent reading? Enjoy the silence as you re-read one of your favorite school assignments.
Learning the history of a special interest is not always easy, especially when you need to read old books and dusty newspapers, but when you learn from a Christmas present, it is a true pleasure. Here’s a story of a real special lady.
The Postcard History Quiz returns with the Faces of World War I.
The Deadline for Quiz One is Friday, January 22, 2021. Good luck!
Stories telling of the man who ashcans his job, his family, and all others, except for a wagon and a mule to pull it, hold an allure for those with severe cases of wanderlust. Here are tales of three such men. Lots of adventure; very little guilt.
Inclined Railroads and Funicular Railways By Louis Harrington as told to Nancy Harrington This story is for John. It’s about my postcard collection of inclined
The Girl and the Moon Advertising; The Girl and the MoonThe title of this musical comedy, The Girl and the Moon comes from an ancient
The Old Redhead, the Indomitable Arthur Godfrey In the television program M*A*S*H (season 8 – episode 4, aired October 8, 1979) entitled Goodbye, Radar, the
The Olde Pink House I want to invite each and every one of you to meet us on Reynolds Square, in Savannah, Georgia after the
The American camp meetings of the 1890s through the 1950s were good fits into the hard-scrabble life of that era. Many areas lacked traditional churches and there were few other diversions. John Davis was one such evangelist; he called his meetings, campaigns! For those who wanted spiritual experiences, it was Davis who provided them using the teachings of Jesus, the Golden Rule, and the Ten Commandments in his sermons.
October 18, 1925 The last day of the S.S. Comanche In the last two decades of the 19th century and well into the 1930s, the
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