s I spent two hours with the Post and Times this morning, and still have sections [including the magazines] to read. I saved the NYT's Kid's monthly special for a grandchild, but admittedly did not read it. We subscribe to…
The Hampton Roads Civil War Roundtable couldn't have been any more gracious in inviting me to speak Sept. 22 at their meeting in Virginia Beach and attentive as an audience with topical questions on the "Scientist at War," Matthew Fontaine…
Since the plague began Lillian and I have not been actually by the ocean -- until Thursday when I had a speaking engagement in Virginia Beach. Sure, it doesn't "measure up" to really traveling to exotic places that some…
Lillian took these images today in the bright sunlight of a beautiful mid-September day. Fittingly beautiful for our anniversary tomorrow.
Sean Heuvel, John Rodgaard (eds.), From Across the Sea: North Americans in Nelson’s Navy (Warwick, United Kingdom: Helion & Company, 2020), maps, illustrations, index, footnotes, references, 283 pp. From the big picture, North America and “the Great War” and Impressment,…
So now it’s the Postal Service shutting down its operation at the historic Montpelier train station, a museum today, over its dual race entrance. One door was for “whites” and the other was for “colored.” Being a museum, there were…
I received this engraved tag yesterday from a former student of mine at the Shenango Valley Campus of Penn State where I began teaching a half century ago. In a letter that accompanied the tag, which I attached to the…
I usually go to a nearby farmer’s market around 9:30 Sunday mornings. I am not there for the crafts or prepared food from the vendors, but to buy produce from farms about 100 miles from where we live in the…
Today's Washington Post And for ye of "little faith," here's the online version of where this story is coming from The Washington Post Many young Democrats are furious at Democrats. But they’re pushing through. Danielle Paquette - Yesterday 6:39 PM…
So in the early afternoon, two hungry fawns made their way from the treeline to the backyard to check on our grass crop [and presumably other edibles}. I saw them on the slope outside the basement office, pulled out the…