Gettysburg. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 1963. The Centennial Anniversary of the battle of gettysburg. I remember being a child, standing there, not fully understanding with the civil war was about. What the gettysburg address was about. What had really happened gettysburg. But knowing, in my heart, as i stood there, feeling the summer stones if you have been there, they are unforgettable i knew something extraordinary had happened. This was a sacred place. I took home from the visit in 1963 a small wooden revolver, a souvenir, with the dates of the bowel stamped on the barrel battle stamped on the barrel. I keep it as a reminder of what history really means. Morei set out to write than 25 years ago, hard to believe, but when i set out, i wanted to maintain a sense of childlike wonder about history. I could not understand people saying, history is so dull. So boring. All these days and battles and speeches. History is anything but that. It is the story of real people and
It is with saddened heart we share with you the passing of our beloved Bill Dauenhauer on January 26, 2024, at Everett Providence Hospital with his wife Sharon by his side. Born to Joseph and …
Frances Gomez Quintana, who just died at 102, was my babysitter when I was a toddler in wartime Los Alamos. My mother, Frances Hawkins, hired Frances right after founding the