"Now I forgot the safe words again. SAY 'EM!" - Carol, "Saturday Night Live"
Our nation’s 29th President Warren G. Harding is generally ranked as one of the worst of the American Presidents. Although he was immensely popular while serving in the White House for just under two and a half years (at which time he died in office while traveling through San Francisco) from 1921-23, many scandals reverberated from […]
Bob and I had strategically chosen the motel nearest to St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when we stopped the night before. Located in there was the grave of Pop-artist Andy Warhol and that was our first stop the morning of Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Bob had hoped to stop at […]
Bob and I didn’t have to get up too ungodly early on the morning of Tuesday, July 29, 2008. We were staying at the Red Roof Inn in Canton, Ohio and they didn’t serve a continental breakfast, so we were up and on our way by about quarter of nine. Mom would have been disappointed that […]
If I were Edwin Starr, I might answer that with “absolutely nothin’” - but since Bob and I spent the better part of Monday, July 28, 2008 in this town, it must have been good for somethin’. The day started off with a nice breakfast in our Comfort Inn motel. They had a nice array […]
President James A. Garfield is a name virtually lost among the United States Presidents. Having served just six months and fifteen days of office - the second shortest term of any President - he was shot on July 2, 1881 by a disgruntled Federal office seeker named Charles Guiteau. For the last two and a half […]