SYLVIA ZIMMERMAN In keeping with the campaign declaration, “You didn’t build that!” I offer the story of James J. Hill, a name on the lips or in the memory of almost no one, a true “forgotten man.” He was born in a log cabin in Ontario, Canada, in 1838. His father died when Hill was young […]
John D. Rockefeller wished for two things: to live to be 100 and to earn $100,000; he failed on both accounts.
President Calvin Coolidge helped put the nation back on its feet after the grueling indebtedness of World War I and the enervating scandals of President Harding’s administration
Andrew Mellon has been vilified in American history books as the secretary of treasury under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who wanted to reduce taxes only on the rich and increase taxes on
I am not an expert, a researcher or a specialist, but rather a generalist, a universalist and a reader always deducing the good where I find it and calling out ironies where I see them.
Our dog ate a five-pound box of John Eagle chocolates one Christmas Eve leaving Christmas morn a mess for my mother to clean up. He had used the wingback chair as a ladder next to the cupboard to access the box, then nudged the top off and consumed every delicious morsel and then went to the basement steps and threw it all up on each step, leaving a final hurray just below the final step! It was horrible in all directions.
Many years ago on a grey, drizzly early December day, I drove somewhere in Knox County to buy a horse. Thinking a horse might lift my dreary spirits, I answered an ad, knocked on the door of a small frame house in the midst of a decidedly unkempt farmstead, one I had concluded could not house a horse I would want!
Romney’s dog, Seimus, might have ridden on the top of his vacationing van, but my two kittens rode to Columbus in the hub of the wheel cap under my truck! My son helped get them out and they rode back to our Delaware County farm safely in a box in the bed of the truck.