Remember the fallen, celebrate their lives Though you realize that Monday, the 27th of May will be a solemn day of remembrance, the three-day break from work offers two days before Memorial Day when you can rest, organize your thoughts, or put them aside for a time. You can have a picnic or barbecue with family or friends and celebrate […]
May 5 Cinco de Mayo May 10 227th Anniversary of the first ship of the United States Navy, the frigate USS United States, being commissioned (1797) May 12 Mother’s Day May 18 Armed Forces Day May 19 Nineteenth Amendment, to give women the right to vote, proposed (1919) Abraham Lincoln signs Homestead Act (1862) May 27 Memorial Day May 30 […]
By Robert Reed Many years ago author Lester Margon described a pine and walnut cradle that had been made in Pennsylvania around 1750. “Its design is a consummate delight,” Margon wrote in Masterpieces of American Furniture. “‘What a joy it must have been to sit beside this cradle and rock the baby to sleep, sending the little one off to […]
By Robert Reed Ever since baseball began there has been bit-by-bit collecting of it, and as the great American pastime has grown so have the bits and the numbers of collectors. Fans seek out everything from key chains to bleacher seats, from buttons to Wheaties cereal boxes, from ticket stubs to Jim Bouton’s book, Ball Four. In 1988, for the […]
We had several correct guesses for our April What Is It. William McLaren of Anchorage, Alaska; Jerome McLaren of Conifer, Colorado; and Robert Smith of Plainview, Nebraska all correctly identified the items pictured as keys. As William McLaren pointed out, “It is a group of ancient keys with rings, usually made of iron or bronze and most likely of Roman […]
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