Category: History and Culture

Does it count?

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln Our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, was born on this day in 1809. He died from a gunshot wound on April 15, 1865, just days after Generals Lee and Grant met at Appomattox. No …

Continue reading

Happy 75th, Tom and Jerry!

I grew up with Tom and Jerry.  I loved watching them every chance I got.  I’m assuming it was just on Saturday morning, but somewhere in the back of my decades-old mind there’s a memory that there were cartoons on weekdays as well either before school or when I wasn’t in school. Frankly, that doesn’t …

Continue reading