Incredible! I’m so impressed with Paul Emerson DeStefano. This is so well written and timely. That’s why Thoreau and Emerson are great, their thinking endures. Jon from Denver Beautifully written! Definitely see him as a professional writer in the future. Aka, he’ll be a published doctor!!! Christy from Denver Thanks to Paul, I now have a whole new appreciation for […]
By Sandy Dale We all can’t wait for things to get “back” to normal, right? By now, some of us can’t remember what “normal” was and some of us are pretty sure we aren’t going “back” (and maybe shouldn’t). Whatever happens, there are a few things we have learned from this tumultuous time. We’ve heard all we need to hear […]
By Robert Reed In the wide world of sports tennis has been relatively under collected in the past, but it has a winner’s potential in the future. Today tennis “meets all the criteria” of a popular sporting collectible according to author Robert Everitt. Writing in the very comprehensive volume, Racket Sports Collectibles, Everitt notes tennis has the heritage, the players, […]
We had several guesses for our June What Is It. Jerry Michals of Aurora and Byron Roderick of Broomfield, Colorado correctly identified the object as a Muffin Bell, so called for two brass dome bells with an interior clapper. Mr. Michals tells us the muffin bell (ca early 1800s) was originally used by volunteer fire companies in the Eastern USA […]
The nation’s first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in the state of Washington. However, it was not until 1972—58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official—that the day honoring fathers became a nationwide holiday in the United States. Father’s Day 2020 occurs on Sunday, June 21. Father’s Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the […]
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