(In honor of Veterans Day and the 100th anniversary the armistice ending the Great War I, I publish the WWI diary of Albert J. Ebert. The late Mr. Ebert was my husband’s grandfather and served in France in 1918 and 1919. He enlisted in the navy but found himself in the trenches pulling infantry duty. […]
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You may have wondered about the interesting giant steel sculpture in front of the parking garage in central downtown Colorado Springs. It’s a clock! Since it’s only the hands, you may need to take a second look. The creator of that clock was one of the more interesting characters of Colorado Springs history. Starr Kempf,
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If you google the name Raymond Parks, you’ll find a lot of information about a daring Georgia hillbilly. He served prison time for running moonshine in the 1930s and helped found NASCAR in the 1940s. Unfortunately, Google reveals far less about a black man by the same name. His famous wife, Rosa Parks, became an
I think I am only slightly exaggerating when I say that being a redneck is sort of fashionable right now. Ever since the white working class proved decisive in the 2016 presidential election, both major parties are re-evaluating their relationship with an “embarrassing” voting bloc they believed they could ignore with impunity. However, over a
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How cool is it that one of my relatives helped save some of Europe’s most valuable art pieces from Adolf Hitler? But this individual isn’t the only human treasure in my family… Major Robert Kelley Posey, my third cousin three times removed, was one of the famous Monuments Men who helped discover priceless art objects
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