The first blogs were written before the American Revolution. Although you would think from all the attention this form of communications is getting that the blog is a recent phenomenon. To the contrary, the advent of the Internet and its popularity is what fostered the blog-o-sphere, but the concept flourished hundreds of years [...]
Marketers consider us the sandwich or bridge generation and don’t pay much attention to those born between 1930 and 1945, even though there’s an estimated 40 million pre-boomers scattered across this country.
Our parents told us how fortunate we were not to have suffered through the Great Depression and World War II. Those younger than we [...]
Before they changed the Pledge of Allegiance to include “under God” we had a prayer at the start of each school day. If I remember correctly, the teacher read from the scriptures, too. Then, in the early ‘60s a successful battle was waged to no longer allow prayer in public schools, which prompted [...]
Do you remember the first ten years of rock and roll? Was it the music you liked when you moved on from your teen years? If so, chances are the pop music of those years is still your favorite.
It was in Wildwood New Jersey on Memorial Day weekend in 1954 that Bill Haley [...]
If our ancestors wanted to live like Europeans then why did they come here? There are many reasons: freedom of religion, freedom from tyranny, freedom to pursue a new life. There were other motivations too, but the notion of freedom was the driving force behind much of the migration from Europe.
Today, people come [...]
