_By Tiffany Amber Stockton Before the Coast Guard, and before life insurance, there was the Church. Folklore and Belief Mixed Togethe...

 by Martha Hutchens image by @everett225, deposit photos One of my favorite movies is Sergeant York. I always knew it was based on a true st...

Bessie Lee Efner Fell Rehwinkle (1873-1962) was a remarkable woman. Not only was she a homesteader, she was a physician when women doctors w...

  “In the face of authoritarian rule, what is a citizen to do? Some will join the oppressors, while others, such as the diarist of the Nazi ...

  By Mary Dodge Allen "I believe God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."  - Er...

By Donna Wichelman Readers of my blogs over the last year and a half know I've written on topics related to my Gilded Age historical rom...

Trees. Life-giving, majestic, sentinels of time. We line driveways, create memorials, use as privacy buffers, climb on, hang from, and depen...