July 3, 1776
Last week I wrote about the importance letters once had in the lives of Americans. On this day before the 4th of July, I want to share a portion of a letter John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, on…
Last week I wrote about the importance letters once had in the lives of Americans. On this day before the 4th of July, I want to share a portion of a letter John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, on…
On the morning of June 30, 1859, Jean François Gravelet, a 34-year-old French acrobat, better known by his performance name of Monsieur Charles Blondin became the first person to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. A crowd of 25,000…
Ray told me the other day that he is thinking about doing a podcast telling what it was like for him to grow up in the 1950s and 1960s. Ray had a childhood I think people will enjoy learning about.…
God is constantly preparing what we need. Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun. Psalm 74:16 You visit the earth and cause it to overflow; You greatly enrich it; The…
May you notice many of God’s blessings on this Memorial Day. Since I have been writing about World War II lately, I’d like to share some photos of a Memorial Day remembrance that took place in 1943 in Ashland, Maine.…
After I wrote the first post about the Tennessee Maneuvers last week, a friend and daily blog reader wrote to me about her own memories of the maneuvers. While she was growing up during World War II in Springfield, Tennessee,…