July 4, 2023Hiya Joey! How’s my big fella?Gramps is writing to you today because he thinks it’s important for you to learn history the way he learned it – not the way they teach it in the government-run History Hootenannies we have now.As I write, I’m sitting in my cell at Fort Benedict ...
It’s the story of a man named Brady.Well ... it’s only peripherally about a man named Brady, which you will see.Back when I used to be a reporter for this newspaper, I thought it would be cool to write a feature story about a man named Brady. And my clever “lead” (first sentence) would ...
A dozen years separated me and my sister, Pat. Despite the age gap, we developed an unspoken bond. I had two brothers and there were only three bedrooms in our small house, so I bunked with Pat – slept on a rollaway bed stuck in the corner. Some nights Pat would let me crawl into bed with ...
Like so many of us, I watched “The Fugitive” on TV in the sixties. I bought the plot lock, stock and barrel. But I’m here today to tell you that there is no way the One Armed Man could have killed Dr. Richard Kimball’s wife.I had this revelation three days into having gout in my right ...
It’s mid-May. You’ve been trapped inside for six weeks – surely you’ve spent that time keeping up with current events. So there’s no excuse for you to miss even one answer in our very first Quarantine News Quiz. No Googling!1.) On May 4, unofficially known as “Star Wars Day,” the ...
1755: Long before he is to be elected the nation’s first president, George Washington becomes violently ill after contracting dysentery while traveling through Western Pennsylvania with British Gen. Edward Braddock. Acting on the suggestion of an Indian scout, soldiers cover Washington in ...
