"Okay, we'll play football." - Chris Tangeman
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 […]
William McKinley, our nation’s 25th United States President, was the first commander-in-chief to enter the 20th century…and our third President to be assassinated. Unlike James Garfield, the other Ohio President who was killed in office, McKinley actually served an entire term and was re-elected to a second. He served in office from 1897-1901, at which time he was […]
For the first full day of the Sons of the Desert convention, Thursday, July 10, we basically spent the entire day in Amsterdam again. Not that touring the city wasn’t enjoyable, but it certainly didn’t feel much like a real convention, given that we were away from the hotel for almost the entire day. 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 […]