Among the books on the new non-fiction shelves at the central library, I found a few gems, including Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Warriors: The True Story of the Improbable 1982 Alaska State Basketball Championship. It is probably the only book on Palin I will ever possibly read. Another one I grabbed was Lincoln, Inc., [...]
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Sarah Barracuda, Clark Gable, Lincoln & Two Politicos
Posted: May 26, 2012 in Abraham Lincoln, Books, Germany, Pop Culture, United States0
Today, while browsing through the books on Germany in the Suzzallo Library, I discovered an important book to help me understand why my ancestors ventured so far from home. The book primarily covers the years 1887 and 1888, and events leading up to what the author describes as an imperial succession crisis. The subtitle provides [...]
Today I met a cousin of mine. We met at the Seattle Public Library. Although we had originally planned to meet on the University of Washington campus, I happened to be downtown for a morning meeting, so we met up on the ninth floor of the spacious central library. The main genealogy collection is on [...]
In discussing the plight of a current organization in New Jersey that helps immigrants, a writer with the journal Nonprofit Quarterly has provided some key details on the immigration experience in earlier times. The institute is located in Jersey City, the second largest city in the state. . . . Jersey City . . . in fact, all of Hudson [...]
DNA test results show that four mountain lions seen in Missouri last year had traveled east from the West. One was from central Montana, two from the Black Hills of South Dakota, and another from Colorado. Fourteen reports of mountain lions were made in 2011, a sharp increase. There were only 12 documented cougar encounters during the previous 16 years. There have been [...]
A 25-inch baseball bat from a bygone era is for sale. It is engraved with the name R. Huff of Fulton, Missouri, the year 1936, Ku Klux Klan, and KKK. No one knows much about the item nor its original owner, Mr. Huff, presumably a racist. The bat is considered to be in excellent condition. ajh
A forgery? Doctored? A mistake by the writer? Deliberate fabrication? Or actual fact?1 The story of President Obama’s birthplace refuses to die, for a myriad of reasons. What lends credence to Hawaii rather than Kenya is the newspaper announcement, and vice versa for this short bio. I suspect that he was born in Hawaii. Regardless of his [...]
Oops. It’s been described as “a remarkable case of family history.” Golfer Caroline Inglis, a student at Churchill High School in Eugene, Oregon, “was en route to a fourth consecutive state 5A golf title, something no boy or girl has done in Oregon, when she was disqualified . . . ” Inglis signed an inaccurate scorecard. Her father, Bill [...]
Before today I’d never heard of James Abdnor. He passed away today at the age of 89. From South Dakota, he knocked off George McGovern in 1980. Tom Daschle then ousted him, and John Thune, once a member of Abdnor’s staff, did the same to Daschle. Abdnor’s biography on Wikipedia might be indicative of a [...]
May 16, 1918 Congress expands the Espionage Act of 1917 with the Sedition Act of 1918. Offenses include the use of “disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive language” about the federal government, the American flag or the armed forces or speech “that cause[s] others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt.” Such Senate stalwarts as Republicans [...]
