Today I want to share with you the Christmas message President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed in 1935: The spirit of Christmas breathes an eternal message of peace and good-will to all men. We pause therefore on this Holy Night and, laying…
I read The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge many years ago. Yesterday I finished listening to the expanded and annotated edition published in 2021. The Coolidge family authorized this edition, which was edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes and coeditor Matthew…
Ray and I have enjoyed visiting several homes of presidents through the years. My parents took me on my first visit to a president’s home when they took me to the Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson, when I was…
Ray and I are still anticipating our whole family Christmas gathering, which we look forward to later this week. Yesterday we enjoyed worshipping with Mary Evelyn and her family before they came to our house for lunch and afternoon fun.…
The local Notgrass History team gathered for our annual Christmas celebration this past Tuesday. We enjoyed a Christmas brunch followed by fun and laughter. Before the party, we made our annual Christmas video greeting. As usual, our daughter Mary Evelyn…
Christmas is a time for visiting. On Christmas Eve in 1930, little Kitty Murray and Harry G. Holme, both 6 years old, visited President Herbert Hoover’s grandchildren, Peggy Ann and Herbert Hoover III, who were visiting their grandparents at the…
