The auction of my presidential memorabilia collection on Everything But the House has begun. Nearly 200 lots, almost all with multiple items of Presidents, First Ladies, First Families representing those from George and Martha Washington to Barack and Michelle Obama,… Read More ›
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The Ignored Men Who Gave Women Their First Vote
Too often, the struggle for any form of legal equality is reduced to a shorthand of dramatic conflict between those seeking and opposing a change. Of course, it is the demographic forced to exist at a disadvantage (be it based… Read More ›
Songs Summarizing Summertime: Vote Your Favorite
We’re almost in the thick of it. For three weeks after Memorial Day Weekend, you could still technically claim it wasn’t summer until the vernal equinox of June twenty-first. Two weeks out since Independence Day, however, it is high season,… Read More ›
The Father of the Jellybean’s 1912 Black Peep Scandal: A Bittersweet Gem from the Archives
They are ubiquitous at this time of year, produced at a rate of over five and half million a day, a billion and a half being consumed, selling at a rate of 57 times more than an iPhone. Yes, the… Read More ›
The Scruffy Dudes Who Got Wyoming Women the First Vote & Got Forgot
It isn’t a federal holiday and probably never will be declared one, considering how close it it to Labor Day, Still, every year, starting in the middle of August until the month’s end, from Macomb, Illinois to Redmond, Washington to… Read More ›
The Black Peep Scandal: An Easter Candy Mystery & The Father of the Jellybean
Fruitcake at Christmas, hot dogs on July Fourth, beer for St. Patrick’s, turkey on Thanksgiving. And, the quintessential American food favorite for Easter? Surpassing the hard-boiled matter once those decorated eggs are cracked, not to mention asparagus, jellybeans, lamb or ham, and… Read More ›
Thanks to Presidents Giving Us Turkey Day & Pictures of First Family Thanksgivings
It’s often posited that how a President and his family live in the White House not only reflects contemporary Pop Culture but that news about otherwise mundane details of their choices can often lead the nation’s people towards or away… Read More ›
Felix Baumgartner Left Earth Today to Free-Fall Thru the Sound Barrier…And History
Not as much of the world may, right now, be watching television as it did a half-century ago when, in 1961, U.S. astronaut John Glenn flew in the first space capsule to orbit the globe, or waiting by a radio… Read More ›
A Reagan Country Song & California Classic by ABBA: His 1980 & 1984 Campaign Music
The presidential campaign year of 1980 marked the beginning of what might be termed “theme music” being adopted by presidential candidates, rather than the traditional campaign song. 1976, the year Ronald Reagan lost his challenge to incumbent President Gerald Ford… Read More ›
Mae West Nude, Getting Naked, Fighting Father Time…and Living
In her later years, Mae West spoke out against nudity in feature films – not on a moral basis but because she felt it didn’t allow the imagination to wander. “Never drop the seventh veil,” she once said about actors… Read More ›
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