With news of the Zika virus, mosquitoes are in the news again. There was a time when they came close to stopping the growth and expansion of the United States and many other countries, especially port cities. Death toll in Philadelphia was over 5,000 On October 11, 1793, the death toll from a yellow fever […]
Did You Know? CHARLEY HORSE: The origin of these phrase is uncertain. In America it dates from a persistent story that the original Charley was a lame horse of that name that pulled the roller at the White Sox ballpark in Chicago near the end of last century. Another origin is: In 1640, Charles I of England expanded the […]
Ropesville is a city in Hockley County, Texas, United States. Ropesville, The Ropesville Resettlement Project began in 1934 in conjunction with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the community exists to this day. Resettled family, formerly renters. Ropesville rural community, Texas by photographer Arthur Rothstein in April 1936 Resettled farmer terracing part of […]
Can you believe this was how women were treated in the workplace in the 1950s? And it was legal. Women have come a long way since these days. Do you have a similar story to share? RIBBON OF LOVE: 2nd edition – A Novel of Colonial America – the true story of religion in America –Inspired by […]
Rare! 1938 film of Lake Dick, Arkansas with photographs As a result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s interest in assisting the rural poor during the 1930’s Depression, the Resettlement Administration was established. Lake Dick was one of these Resettlement projects near Althimer, Arkansas. It was part of the governments efforts to help sharecroppers establish their […]
Perhaps New Yorkers would enjoy a good sleigh ride today like they did in this 1898 snow! Central Park in the 1898 was a very busy place. A little snow didn’t stop them. Discordance: The Cottinghams (Volume 1) – A novel inspired by the experiences of the Cottingham family of colonial America Filled with drama, suspense, humor, […]
He was hard pressed to get enough to eat, and went bankrupt, but eight years later he was wealthy. Today his work is known world-wide and he is beloved from small fishing villages to the frozen North. He could have driven around in a Rolls Royce, but instead he plowed his profits back into his […]
The following photographs are from WPA INTERVIEWs – a Federal Writers’ Project in the 1930s in North Carolina. The comments with the pictures are the actual words of the people photographed and the person taking pictures and interviewing the people. “My husband patched ’em up loose on purpose,” said Mrs. Riddle, “so if we move […]
I was born in New York City in 1859. After a fair amount of formal education, interlarded with hurriedly assimilated portions of the world’s great literature, I found employment in the offices of the Art Interchange Publishing Company, of New York. Believing myself possessed of more than average ability in the art of writing, I […]
He was born to a prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), four miles from a tiny, little place called Oologah on Dog Iron Ranch. Both of his parents were part Native American, his father one-eighty and his mother one-fourth. For years his father sat in the councils of the Cherokees as […]
