Tag: history
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January 15, 2006 09:50 PM EST --
John Fawcett's journey began on a freezing night in February 1936, riding the blinds of a crack passenger train. It was to change the 16-year-old's life forever. The son of a prosperous ophthalmologist . . .
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January 29, 2006 06:14 PM EST --
Arvel "Sunshine" Pearson's grandfather had living quarters behind the railroad station at Spadra, an Ozarks village five miles from Clarksville, Arkansas. Arvel's father died before . . .
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June 10, 2008 03:16 PM EDT --
Living in the city for more than ten years, we've been to the Chicago Cultural Center (CCC) on a number of occasions, and we've never really thought of the building as an architectural landmark. . . .
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December 07, 2007 11:10 AM EST --
I've always been fascinated with botanical illustrations, so when the Field Museum announced it was featuring a show on plant portraits, I decided it was time for a visit. The day after Thanksgiving, . . .
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January 22, 2007 09:48 AM EST --
I've never liked counting sheep. When insomnia hits, I mentally trace my steps from Boston's Public Garden to the harbor. It's a complicated, zigzagging route, but one that remains familiar . . .
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November 08, 2007 03:05 PM EST --
“I made this work with the greatest diligence and the greatest love.” – Lorenzo Ghiberti (1381-1455)
Three panels of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance masterpiece The Gates . . .
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December 07, 2006 05:03 PM EST --
The underdog St. Louis Cardinals scored a grand slam in the hearts of its fans when the team knocked out the Detroit Tigers in six games to win the 2006 World Series. But there's much more to be seen . . .
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February 23, 2007 02:07 PM EST --
In my quest to discover America, I left Seattle and headed east. On my way, I discovered one of those roadside oddities that I get such pleasure from. In . . .
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January 17, 2007 09:11 PM EST --
Riding the Rails during the Great Depression
Berkeley Hackett made his first trip in 1929 at 13, riding with his stepfather from Flint, Michigan to Kalamazoo to get a summer job working in . . .
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December 29, 2006 10:36 AM EST --
Many of might be wondering why I'm writing this article after I've written about other more sensitive & shocking issues. Well, the main reason is that, I want to tell everybody about West . . .
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May 25, 2007 05:54 PM EDT --
Greenfield Village is a historical treasure that not a lot of people may know about. In my opinion it's better than Williamsburg, but I'm probably a bit partial since I live close . . .
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April 24, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
Whenever somebody asks me about touring Washington, D.C., my stock response is: “Do it! Everything’s free!”
That’s a bit of an overstatement, of course, but not by a lot. . . .
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November 16, 2007 12:26 PM EST --
The visitors approach the steps, climbing them one by one until they reach the thirteenth. They turn and smile for the camera. Click! As the sign on the stairs says, they are exactly one . . .
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April 25, 2007 05:57 PM EDT --
Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone Az.
Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone, Az.
There are Boothill Cemeteries all over the United States from . . .
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March 20, 2008 11:10 PM EDT --
Planes, cars, and buses are machines. A train, on the other hand, has a soul. Steve Goodman didn't waffle between "United flight 604 to Shreveport" and the "City of New Orleans" . . .
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October 11, 2007 09:06 AM EDT --
I share a kind of kinship with celebrity chef Walter Staib, though I am no kitchen witch. Like most Americans of German descent, my knowledge of the German culinary arts is limited to sausages, sauerkraut, . . .
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May 07, 2007 02:05 PM EDT --
Monday morning dawned damp and gloomy. The skies were clad in appropriate Confederate gray for the day we planned to visit Manassas, Virginia. I had an ulterior motive to heading to Manassas – my . . .
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June 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
When his father lost his job in 1931, Jim Mitchell saw his family slide to rock bottom in . . .
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May 25, 2007 08:24 PM EDT --
DearbornMichiganis the hometown of Henry Ford and is also home to the Ford Motor Company. There are a lot of auto-related sites in Dearborn and throughout the Detroit area and one I finally went to was . . .
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July 03, 2007 07:27 PM EDT --
The spike sits on a shelf opposite my desk, four inches of mottled iron with a square shank and L-shaped head tapering to a wedge. I picked it up on the Devil's Railroad in the heart of the Amazon . . .
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