Frequently, when I am conducting research for a story I am writing, I discover another very interesting story related to it and I often make a note to follow it when I find the time. Sometimes, I find some pretty pretty remarkable people and this is the case with this story. My research started when I wrote, Did you know Birmingham, Alabama […]
Share this important story with your friends! Never go to Walmart go see if you are having a heart attack by Dorothy Graham Gast Early morning on April 6 after a delightful evening with friends, I felt activity in my chest. No real pain, but the feeling that a couple of large mice might be […]
He didn’t have much education, never even finished high school, but he had resourcefulness and ambition. When he and his brother were boys, they had gone out into the country and picked up the bones of dead cows and horses and sold them to fertilizer factory. They gathered scraps of iron and sold them to […]
While we sleep, there is a remarkable spectacle that draws thousands of visitors from all over the world to local caves in the summer months. Beginning around dusk in the summer months, they watch millions of mammals emerge from the caves in mass. Spectacular film of millions of bats emerging from a cave in Mexico […]
These photographs below of young workers from the 1915s include names of children from New York, Mississippi and Maine who worked in the cannery industry. Canning was once an industry that hired young workers in America as seen by the following photographs. Instead of attending school, children were often forced to work by their parents […]
An Explosive Moment in Time by Pete Kersey October 1957…I had been a clerk typist at Castle Air Force base in northern California for eight months. This was a B-52 Air Force bomber flight crew training base. In spite of my having tested high in electronic abilities, the Air Force needed help to process the […]
Written at the request of a grandson who ask me, “What has happened of great significance in your lifetime?” The Great Depression This was the period of time after World War I when the economy of the United States became even worse than today. Banks failed, unemployment was at the lowest in history, and food […]
This is a picture of the White House after it was burned by the British in the War of 1812. On June 12, 1812, the United States of America declared war on Great Britain. There had been a long period of simmering disputes between the nations, including Northwest Territory land disputes, the British impressment of […]
In the 1930s, Texas had plans to celebrate its 100th anniversary of independence from Mexico. The city of Dallas was chosen and on June 6, 1936, the exposition opened to huge crowds seeking to escape the hard-knock life of Depression-era Dallas. Crowds fill the plaza in front of the Federal Building during the Texas Centennial […]
The curators at the Michigan Historical Museum are stumped by this mysterious artifact in their collection that was donated to the Museum. Jeremy Dimick describes this unknown item that was donated early in the museum’s history, before record keeping is what it today (circa 1913). The artifact came from a mining ghosttown in Michigan’s Upper […]
