When I was eight years old and my brother was five, our parents took us to Santa Claus Land in Santa Claus, Indiana. Back in the 1960s, before it became the modern Holiday World, Santa Claus Land was a tiny amusement park, smaller…
When people make historic documentaries, they sometimes interview people who experienced a famous event. I have often heard people tell the story of what they were doing when they heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. As our bed and breakfast host drove us…
Today the ship is to dock at Skagway, Alaska. Skagway became a boom town after the Klondike Gold Rush began in 1897. In 1898 construction began on the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad. One hundred years later the governments of Canada and…
John and Audra sent Ray and me home from Henry’s birthday party with three sets of party favors, one for each of us and one for Clara. Our favors were inside miniature sand buckets. Each included stickers and a craft kit, plus a…
On Saturday night Ray and I met some friends at the second Saturday music show performed every month (except December) in our little town. When we first moved here, it was the Little Opry; now it is called Therold’s Little Opry, in…
The War of 1812 is called America’s second war for independence. Just thirty-six years after the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Great Britain and only twenty-nine years after the United States of America and Great Britain signed the Treaty…
