I have one more passage to share with you from Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery. Near the end of the book, he looks back 20 years to his founding of Tuskegee Institute and tells many details of its progress.…
When Ray, one of our grandsons, and I returned to our house from an outing on Monday evening, we were all surprised by bright red and white lights up ahead on our road. We saw a bucket truck . .…
We Americans admire people from humble beginnings who achieve success in fields such as business or politics or entertainment. Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and James Garfield were all born in log…
Late Monday night I was working away trying to figure out the best way to write instructions for the paper towel tube Ingalls family figures we demonstrated during yesterday’s birthday party for Laura Ingalls Wilder. Making them is easy, but…
Bob Vollmer was 45 years old when he started to work for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Since then he has tramped around state property as a land surveyor. Now he is about to retire from a career that…
