There was a time in the good ol’ USA when manufacturing was booming, factories were humming and workers were making things on assembly lines. “Things”…
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Once upon a time, there was America, and it was great, or at least that's what my teachers taught. Then I grew up, and one…
I grew up with restaurants and in restaurants and luxuriated in the romance of restaurants in New York, London, Mexico City and elsewhere. My lawyer…
Willie Mays. Was there ever a better name for a ball player? Willie Mays. Just the mention of his name brings a smile to all,…
“Are you going to watch the debate?” Yes, I replied, I feel I have to. It’s probably going to be a big deal. But I…
To begin, let me report that after submitting the previous Rainbow story to the Advertiser, it occurred to me that I had not asked the…
At the end of WWII, it was generally recognized that the Soviet Union and saved Europe. Russians killed 80% of all German soldiers. The Nazi…
This high school wood shop, built in 1954, will not qualify for modernization funding until the district brings an outside entranceway added in the 1970s…
No work of music has a greater lock on a single ritual than Edward Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March no. 1 does on American graduations.…