"Inspector Smoky Bates, private eye for the public schools." - Norman Lamb, "It's Your Move"
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 […]
I was up and rarin’ to go on the morning of Saturday, July 26, 1986. The Valley Forge Sons of the Convention was officially underway and we had a day ahead of us packed with fun events. The first item on the agenda was the Pee-Wee Contest at 9am. At this juncture in Sons history, […]
I have no real memory of my family’s trip to the Cumberland region of Kentucky - but if I did, this is what I would remember: throwing rocks into the water (as seen at right). Because that’s basically all anyone else seems to remember about this trip! My Dad had just started at Miami Litho […]
Since we were in Europe, it was assumed that most of the convention-goers would probably prefer to get out and see the local sites rather than stay around the hotel. But since I was in Europe for a full fifteen days, and was at this point just about to complete my first week, I was […]