Author Archives
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California Oktoberfest: Authentically German, Utterly American
It’s that time of year again. Cincinnati makes sense. Upper Midwestern cities certainly. East Coast bastions of ethnic immigrant history absolutely. But Oktoberfest in Torrance, California? That small city in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County that’s home… Read More ›
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Millard Fillmore, the First Cat President? (Cats in the White House, Part 1)
For those who love and share their lives with Cats, this is the first in an anticipated series about those Presidential Families who did likewise. We know next to nothing about the plurality of cats that lived in the White… Read More ›
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Peace of Green: Woodstock, New York
Most people hold in their mind the particulars of certain places where they’ve experienced that intuitive sense of not merely of belonging there but feeling entirely integrated into the environment about it. Its those places where one has a sense… Read More ›
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Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: LBJ (Part 5)
Lyndon B. Johnson and The Vietnam War It was under Truman in the early 50s that the U.S. sent its first military advisers into what had been known primarily as Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) when under French colonial rule, in… Read More ›
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Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: FDR (Part 4)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, World War II Even before he was permanently paralyzed by polio in 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt had been inscrutable. He was sly in manipulating those around him with an infectious charm and wily in foreseeing long-range… Read More ›
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Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: Wilson (Part 3)
Woodrow Wilson and World War I (this separate article appeared yesterday as part of one which considered William McKinley) A childhood dominated by the strict inculcation of pre-destiny by his father, a Presbyterian minister, and the deprivation of war which… Read More ›
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Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: McKinley (Part 2)
This is the second part of a three-part series looking at five U.S. Presidents whose own lives were forever altered, for the worse, as a result of engaging the U.S. military in combat missions, whether it was a matter of… Read More ›
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Ari and Jackie Onassis: The U.S. First Lady as Greek Wife & Paris Resident (Part 4)
The 40th birthday of Jackie Kennedy Onassis on July 28, 1969 was celebrated at a raucous all-night bash in an Athens nightclub, hosted by her husband. It lasted until seven the next morning. Emerging into the daylight not only with… Read More ›
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