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A YOUNG child's battle with cancer has inspired a council chairman to donate £1,000 to charity. Cllr Nigel Taylor, who is more used to doing battle with councillors at Somerset County Council, was moved by the touching story of Emilia-Mae's successful fight against the disease. He learned about the toddler's bravery at the age of just eighteen months during a chance chat with her dad, County Hall communications office Michael Wallis. Cllr Taylor immediately pledged £1,000 from the Chairman's Charitable Fund to Musgrove Leukaemic Group, to benefit local children undergoing treatment ...

Every editorial product is independently selected, though we may be compensated or receive an affiliate commission if you buy something through our links. Get your kicks on America's original road trip—this 2,448-mile journey from Chicago to Santa Monica is a trip down memory lane of our nation's history. Emma Kumer/rd.com The Mother Road. America’s Highway. The Main Street of America. The Will Rogers Highway. Route 66 goes by many names, but no matter how travelers refer to it, there’s one constant everyone can agree on: “Historic Route 66 is the quintessential American experience,�...

True West Magazine Johnny D. Boggs, the 2020 Owen Wister Award recipient for lifetime contributions to Western literature and inductee into Western Writers Hall of Fame, has won a record eight Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. A former newspaper journalist, he has been writing fiction and nonfiction full time since 1998. His books include A Thousand Texas Longhorns; Hard Winter; Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me; and Billy the Kid on Film, 1911-2012. His website is JohnnyDBoggs.com.   My mother and father… Songwriter Rodney Crowell wrote my life story in “Long Hard Road (The Sharecro...

4 endurance athletes are setting out to trek the route of the Donner Party from the 19th century Business Insider India 16-12-2020 Inyoung Choi © Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images 4 endurance athletes are setting out to trek the route of the Donner Party from the 19th century Four endurance running athletes are setting out to trek part of the route that the Donner Party traveled in the 1840s on a five-day trip with "modern equipment and wildness gear," The Associated Press reported. The Donner Party was a group who got stuck in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in their travel f...

this is a little under an hour. >> the topic today is remembering the alamo. i don't know about you, but as i get older it's tougher and tougher to remember anything. but the alamo certainly is one of those things that keeps coming to mind, and perhaps today we can find out just why. what is this obsession all about, and why have these men devoted so much of their lives coming years they will never get back -- [laughter] to the story of the alamo? some of them because of their way work habits have less time to waste than others. james donovan, speaking of that -- i do know these peop...