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One of my favorite episodes of the Andy Griffith Show, Three Wishes for Opie, came in the 5th season when Barney and Goober went to an auction. Barney came back from the auction holding a gypsy’s box that contained a … Continue reading →

Henry Brooks Adams February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918 —- Marian “Clover” Hooper Adams September 13, 1843 – December 6, 1885 Henry Adams, the scion of the great and influential Adams family was a journalist, an historian and a … Continue reading →

ANNE SIMON “A SOUL WHOSE EYES WERE KEENER THAN THE SUN A SOUL WHOSE WINGS WERE WIDER THAN THE WORLD” “There is no Death” The souring angel in the Rock Creek Cemetery at Washington, D.C., that marks the grave of … Continue reading →

Lorado Zadoc Taft (April 29, 1860 – October 30, 1936) one of the great American sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th Century, was born at Elmwood, Illinois. His parents, a homemaker and a professor of geology, homeschooled young … Continue reading →

Nellie Verne Walker (December 8, 1874 Red Oak, Iowa – July 10, 1973 Colorado Springs, Colorado) stood a whopping 4 foot 8 inches tall. The diminutive woman was not the image one thinks of when conjuring up a sculptor creating … Continue reading →

This dramatic gray granite monument erected in the Mount Carmel Cemetery at Hillsdale, Illinois, is a depiction of a line from the iconic hymn “Rock of Ages” written by Reverend Augustus Montague Toplady in 1763 and first published in 1775.  … Continue reading →

On top of one of the rolling hills in Unionville Township in Monroe County, Indiana, there was a tiny rural church, the Pleasant View Baptist Church, long since abandoned by the congregation and torn down. But, next to where the … Continue reading →

NATHAN HINKLE BORN JUNE 7, 1749 DIED DEC. 25, 1848 — NATHAN HINKLE REVOLUTINARY SOLDIER ENLISTED IN LANCASTER CO. PENN APR. 1776 AND SERVED 2YS 9MS UNDER CAPT. HENRY CRISP — COL. MILES REG AS A PRI- VATE PARTICIPATED IN THE … Continue reading →

The Gray During the Civil War Americans were fighting against Americans. Brothers against brothers—cousins against cousins, every casualty and every fatality was an American. The war tore the country apart and threatened the very existence of the Republic itself.  The … Continue reading →