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Beaned in Bowie and other ballpark bits
Regular readers of my column over the years know that I love baseball. Our national pastime has been one of my faves since childhood.
Writer’s win, place and show
Let’s take another little stroll down memory lane. Do you remember the name “Our Native?” Me neither. Hint: racehorse. How about Scott McLaughlin? Hint: auto racing. Wang Shun? Hint: Olympics.
To Form a More Perfect Union
In a recent column celebrating America’s 250th birthday, I talked about the U.S. Constitution, our charter of freedom establishing the federal government.
Another Plethora of Ponderables
Sometimes I sit around and simply ponder. Do you? I wonder “how did that happen?” or “how did they do that?”
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...
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...