By Anne Gilbert To the computer generation the typewriter is an all but forgotten object. Not so for its many collectors, mostly over 40 years of age. For them, and me, typewriter history is fascinating, even though names like Sholes and Glidden and Oliver are no longer remembered. Actor Tom Hanks recently appeared on TV displaying his collection of over […]

Native American Heritage Month November 1 Commemoration of the 251st anniversary of the first land battle of the American Revolution in the South, the Battle of Ninety Six. November 1  1800: John Adams becomes the first President to live in the White House. November 3 Election Day November 9 The draft age for the U.S. military is lowered to 18 and […]

By Peggy DeStefano Sure, the theme is death, but the I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles Will Never Fade and Die. I remember my father singing numerous little ditties and great old songs. That, plus the fact that we owned a player piano, helped make my brothers and sisters and I knowledgeable of all of the classic honkey tonk songs. There was […]

By Peggy DeStefano In researching our family history, my sister Mary discovered that on our Knowles side we are descended from one bereft woman who was hanged as a witch in 1651. This happened before the Salem Witch Trials. She was the second woman executed as a witch in the colonies. Though she was called a witch by her puritan […]