Trade ya a Mantle for a Kaline
In the summer of 1957, my cousin, John Liblong, and I went to Weaver’s dime store in Almont and each bought...
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The other Charters of Freedom
I recently wrote about the Declaration of Independence being on display in the rotunda of the National Archives here in Washington. I hope you will be able to visit and...
“We hold these truths to be self-evident”
Historian and author, Walter Isaacson, calls it the greatest sentence ever written. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson wrote...
Perspective on America’s 250th birthday
As we all remember from history class, on July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration...