Historical sites road trip – continued My themed road trip to historical sites near my childhood home had two goals. One was visiting three specific locations, the Richmond Art Museum, the Model T Museum and the main focus of today’s post, the site of the 1791 Battle of the Wabash, or St. Clair’s Defeat. My …
A museum road trip Timing for this past weekend’s mini road trip was the arrival by mail of a new-to-me digital camera. Plans for expanding the scope of this blog made clear that a digital camera with some zoom capability was essential. A determined bit of research led me to my choice and I found …
Three August events help teach cause and effect Perhaps one of the reasons I find Conan O’Brian so much more entertaining than Jay Leno is the latter’s man-on-the-street routine, Jay Walking, from Leno’s time as the Tonight Show host. Viewers had the chance to laugh at and feel superior to the not-so-random person who, predictably, …
The Bonus Army and the fate of the GI Bill Douglass MacArthur already had a history of disobeying the president long before Truman removed the general from command during the Korean War. Like so many – if not all – developments in American history, it was from an act of civil protest that progress we now …