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Cross the Delaware River with General George Washington
Editor's note: I have visited both Mount Vernon, George Washington's beloved estate in Virginia, and Abraham Lincoln's home and Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois....
Locomotives and Autos Fueled 20th Century Growth
Editor's note: In 2013, I toured and wrote a story about Henry Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit where, in 1907, Ford designed and...
Pearl Harbor National Memorial
Editor's note: I visited Pearl Harbor in 2019. At the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, I learned of Cornelia Fort (1919-1943), the first woman pilot...
WWI History Still Relevant Today
Editor's Note: In 2009, I interviewed Frank Buckles, the sole surviving WWI veteran at the time until his death in 2011, at his home...
April 14, 1865: President Lincoln assassinated
Editor's Note: From 2012 through 2015 as I prepared to cover various Civil War sesquicentennial events, the magnitude of the tragedy of President Lincoln's...
Sgt. Harold R. Smith, WWII Home Front Aircraft Mechanic
Editor's Note: On March 9, 2020, in Lebanon, Ohio, near Cincinnati, I had the pleasure of meeting Rachel, Carol and Judy, Harold Smith's daughters....
Ordinary Citizens Can Have Extraordinary Impact
Editor's Note: In 2014, I visited a small museum in Danville, Iowa dedicated to telling the story of two Iowa sisters/students who were pen...
Raoul Wallenberg’s Fate Remains a Mystery
Editor's Note: As a University of Michigan alum, I was particularly interested in learning about Raoul Wallenberg, Class of 1935, through Irene Hasenberg Butter,...
Pere Marquette 1225 transports magic
Editor's note: In 2014, I learned about a steam locomotive still operating in Owosso, Michigan. After reading more about the Pere Marquette (PM) 1225,...
D-Day Meteorologist Had Pressure Everywhere
Editor’s note: One of my favorites stories that I have written about people who served during World War II is my 2020 story about...