May 8 V-E Day; Victory in Europe (1945) Mother’s Day May 10 225th Anniversary of the first ship of the United States Navy, the frigate USS United States, being commissioned (1797) May 19 Nineteenth Amendment, to give women the right to vote, proposed (1919) May 20 Abraham Lincoln signs Homestead Act (1862) May 21 Armed Forces Day May 30 100th […]

By Peggy DeStefano    Is it “odd” to want to help other people when they are in need? Or, was it “odd” to pursue projects for the betterment of mankind? People in 1730 in London, England thought so. So, when the original group was called “odd” they decided they were proud to be odd and hence they officially took the […]

 Memorial Day 2022 formally known as Decoration Day, is a federal holiday observed yearly on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day 2022 is a day that commemorates all men and women who have died while serving in the military for the United States of America.  The history of Memorial Day 2022 dates back to the American Civil War. It […]

By Mary Oliver Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety— best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the […]

By Henry J. Pratt  Almost 75 years ago, skiers schussed down the slopes of the Concord Resort in New York’s Catskill Mountains on artificially-made snow.  It was the first time that the popular sport of skiing had been regularly offered anywhere on man-made surfaces. Skiers and resort owners considered it a miracle—someone had finally found a recipe for making snow. […]