I recall from my childhood that Mother used to have a big book that she often referred to when she was hosting a dinner party or other...

It seems that this is the start of "Get Caught Reading Month." I should have no problem being caught and convicted of that charge because...

My initial thought in beginning this post (before my focus was changed) was to highlight a few historic events that had occurred on this...

Today, April 18, is Good Friday, the precursor to Easter. As a little kid, I didn't understand what "Good Friday" was all about. I...

Many noteworthy events occurred on this date during the War Between the States, but perhaps none more interesting and entertaining...

Colonial Williamsburg offers something for history buffs of all ages: buildings, architecture, and furnishings; art, design, and...

Events were moving quickly toward the conclusion of World War II on this date in history. Tech 5 Dillon Summers , as a tank driver for...

Well, yesterday was potentially a landmark day. It was World Storytelling Day . And, not to be outdone by prose, today is World Poets Day...

Several months ago, while visiting our daughters in North Carolina, we joined our daughters and grandchildren at the Greensboro...

Increasingly fewer people have a sense of place, somewhere that they consider where they originated and have set down roots, a place to...

When you're growing up, there's no place in your memory like home. But even within that broad context of home, you usually have one or...

Across from the driveway of my childhood home, in the corner of a cow pasture of my grandfather's dairy farm, was a pond. My grandfather...

I don't know if kids today get excited about Valentine's Day the way we used to "back in the day," but we got excited! It wasn't so much...

"I had a little bird, its name was Enza. "I opened the window, and in flu Enza." So reads a little ditty to which children in the 1918-19...

I'm generally not very good at multitasking, performing more than one task simultaneously. Yet, in at least one area of my life I've...

Some days in history seem to have it all. Such was this day, January 24. Events that occurred on this date in history involved economics,...

Robert Peterson ("Uncle Bob" to me as a kid) had four sons--Ross, John, Charles, and Andrew--all of whom served during World War II. As I...

One of the most satisfying gifts one could receive is that of a series of smiles, chuckles, laughter, even an occasional guffaw. One gift...

Well, New Year's Day has come and gone, and we find ourselves looking back at 2024 and forward into the current year. What does it hold...

I recently was reminded of a trip my family and I took that found us far from home in the Appalachian Mountains and stranded in a...