The Wild West represented adventure, hard work, and new beginnings for its settlers, and none more than the Irish. Fleeing famine, poverty...

By Susan G Mathis  Lighthouse keepers had many duties including maintaining the lighthouse, ensuring the light was operational, and assistin...

National Museum of American History From accounts I’ve read the art of scrimshaw began on whaling vessels. Fishermen would spend months at s...

  I’m continuing my hymn history posts today. You’ll find my January post here and February post here, as well as Naomi Musche’s January p...

 By Catherine Ulrich Brakefield Foreign Correspondent Joe Galloway says the Vietnam War shaped his life as it did for many men of his gene...

by Cynthia Roemer Weddings. What a joy. I was excited to help my oldest son and daughter-in-law plan their wedding as they prepared to take ...

Quick Bio Born ~ August 8, 1896 in Washington, D.C. Parents ~ Ida May (née Traphagen) and Arthur Frank Kinnan Married ~ Charles Rawlings (m....