May 19, 2009
It’s natural that in school my favorite subject was History — after all, you can’t have “history” without “story.” While I didn’t enjoy learning dates (for that smacked of my most detested subject: math), I enjoyed reading about the early explorers who “discovered” this continent. Recently I learned the name of one Spanish explorer who [...]
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October 10, 2008
A group of curious citizenry crowded around the speaker’s platform on a warm spring day in the early 1900′s. Miners and their families, factory workers, farm laborers, university students, and others were waiting to hear the words of the grandmotherly looking woman on the stage. She was only five feet tall, and slightly plump, wearing [...]
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