As Harry Golden, the famous Southern writer, author of the bestseller, “Only in America,” would have put it, what happened to me, could have happened, indeed, only in America. I was notified recently by my editor that Sen. Montgomery Mason, representing the 1st District in the Virginia ...
John Brown barn - The barn on the John Brown farm is being moved to the back of the house. For some time, this barn has been the most conspicuous thing on the elevation occupied by the buildings, flagpole and monument. It was not there, or perhaps anywhere, in the days of John Brown, and ...
The Champlain Valley was and has remained a vital thoroughfare for people seeking a better life. Leading up to the Civil War, it was a principal route for runaway slaves seeking freedom in Canada. Recently, until COVID-19 slammed shut the U.S.-Canada border, the valley was a major route ...
By MARTHA ALLEN As we all know, in fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Ever since, we have been forbidden to wear white shoes or linen clothing or straw hats after the second Monday in October, simply because Christopher Columbus stepped ashore in the Bahamas on ...
Polio epidemic - One Essex County school has not reopened this fall and two others have closed due to an outbreak of poliomyelitis. John Carr of Elizabethtown, chairman of the Essex County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said there are at least 30 cases of ...
Chance encounters can make a profound difference in someone’s life. For Russian-born guitarist Grisha Goryachev, it was hearing flamenco music for the first time. With the opening of Russia to new experiences from the west under glasnost, Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of openness following ...