On the 25th of June, 1950, I was spending the weekend with my grandparents in Granby, Connecticut. My grandfather was out of the house on an errand and my grandmother was sitting in her usual chair in the living room reading a detective novel. I was watching television in an adjacent room. Since it was…
Most serious baseball fans I know were about 90% certain the Kansas City Royals were going to win the World Series. And most of us were glad for them and for their fans. It had been 30 years since the Royals last won it all and most of their teams in that long dismal interim…
A lot of people ride trains just to get somewhere. For the rest of us, the experience is quite different and it affects each of us in different ways. In 1948, Harry Truman won re-election as president in an upset victory over New York governor, Thomas Dewey. Credit is usually given to Truman’s “whistle-stop tour”…
“When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.” Harry Truman, to reporters after the death of Franklin RooseveltApril, 1945 —————————————————————————– “I’m ready.” Sarah Palin, to ABC’s Charles GibsonSeptember, 2008