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George Washington probably never chose to celebrate his birthday in Laredo, Texas. Nor was he even alive by the time Laredo threw him his first birthday part

April 6, 2021 Rufus William Joseph of Lewes passed away Tuesday, March 30, 2021, at Cadia Renaissance in Millsboro.   Rufus was born Aug. 4, 1939, in Lewes. He was the son of the late Moulten and Blanche Joseph.  He graduated from Lewes High School in 1957. In his younger years he worked in construction, operating heavy equipment. In the 1980s he started working in the mobile home industry and started his own business, B & R Transporters Inc. He also worked quite a few summers at the Holly Lake Campground. He never really retired as he always wanted to keep busy.  In his spare ti...

Moswetuset Hummock, 2020. [Mark Jarzombek] My wife and I, as relative newcomers to Massachusetts, decided to immerse ourselves more firmly in local history, and an internet search brought us to a website about Moswetuset Hummock. The next day, we drove to the South Boston shore, parked in a small lot, and walked up the hill. Heavily wooded, the hummock faces the Atlantic, backing into a tidal flat at the mouth of the Neponset River. It is not particularly tall, but despite ongoing efforts to drain the surrounding marsh, it dominates the landscape. Beside the trail stands a stone marker statin...

a- When Sarah Palin told Tea Partiers not to party like it's 1773, numerous clueless people on the left responded "You mean 1776!" As I am by far not the first to point out, the Boston Tea Party took place in 1773, when a group calling themselves the Sons Of Liberty, dressed up as Indians for the sake of anonymity, and threw chests of tea in the harbor. I say dressed as Indians, but the Sons of Liberty have been "retconned" into dressing as "native Americans" in many modern histories. Which is odd, because to them "Native American" would have meant something different—a person born in Am...