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November 22, 2009 10:30 AM EST --
Was King Saul suffering a major depression? Was he psychotic? Everyone knew that he had dark moods, but no one predicted that he would throw spears at the "entertainment".
Did he have . . .
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November 18, 2009 09:00 AM EST --
Who is going to heaven? How can you know you are on the right path?
Track your progress to blessedness, on-line!
In the last Sunday School For the Infidels of Gather, I noted that . . .
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November 15, 2009 08:38 AM EST --
This is the fourth Sunday School lesson from the packet of materials I found at the Flea Market.
The lessons were developed for the Methodist Church in 1943.
I believe that the series presents a "snapshot" . . .
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November 14, 2009 08:30 AM EST --
The villagers walk behind the old-fashioned windowed hearse heaped with wreaths. The procession passes through the town.
Among the assorted memorabilia in the "old paper" bin at . . .
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November 13, 2009 10:14 AM EST --
Tomorrow is the long-awaited Anti-Amnesty Day, when the most stupid and ill-educated Americans take to the streets to display their dislike of people who are not like them.
This custom has a long history . . .
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November 13, 2009 08:47 AM EST --
Americans were on the move throughout the early decades of the twentieth century.
As automobiles became increasingly accessible ( and affordable, thanks to Henry Ford), there was enormous interest . . .
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November 10, 2009 09:23 AM EST --
One of the things that bothers me about looking at vintage photographs for sale in antique shops is the absence of identifying information. It is both sad and frustrating.
Sometimes one picture . . .
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November 09, 2009 05:00 AM EST --
Settled by German immigrant families in 1799, this small town in north-central Pennsylvania became a city during the coal era - and a center of Molly McGuire labor activism.
The town is about 12 . . .
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November 08, 2009 06:48 AM EST --
Two weeks ago, I began publishing a series of Sunday School Lessons on Gather.
Sunday School For the Infidels of Gather - Lesson I: "A Happy Family"
Sunday School for the Infidels of Gather . . .
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November 07, 2009 08:12 AM EST --
Two of my Gather friends, Dave Sandborg and Kris M., commented on the recent documentary about the National Parks by Director, Ken Burns.
The documentary notes the role of the railroad companies and, . . .
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November 06, 2009 08:34 AM EST --
Birdie Sharp was working in Tionesta, Pa, a borough in Forest County.
Although Tionesta was the county seat, it was a small community on the edge of the large Allegheny National Forest. . . .
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November 05, 2009 06:07 AM EST --
Milford Logan lived in Royal Center, Indiana, a small town in north central Indiana.
Royal Center, Indiana
In July of 1914, he received a postcard from Rachel, who encouraged him to take his medicine . . .
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November 04, 2009 06:23 AM EST --
At the antique flea market in New York several weeks ago, I was offered a packet of postcards and a souvenir folder related to servicemen in World War I.
The postcards were crudely made, stock images . . .
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November 03, 2009 05:47 AM EST --
Daniel Boone is one of the early American heros about whom there seems to be a lot of confusion. I have heard his name, and that of Davy Crockett, used inter-changeably.
An unscientific sample . . .
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November 02, 2009 08:07 AM EST --
Most of my postcard stories have related to specific persons and places.
Some postcard companies offered stock images of lovely scenes that were not identified.
I have a number of beautiful . . .
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November 01, 2009 06:12 AM EST --
Last Sunday, I published my first Sunday School Lesson on Gather.
Sunday School For the Infidels of Gather - Lesson I: "A Happy Family"
This is how I introduced the series (regular readers, unless . . .
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October 31, 2009 01:04 PM EDT --
When will the birthers take their meds?
No one of normal intelligence or sanity expected a different outcome, but the birthers present a strange stew of paranoid delusions.
Persons with . . .
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October 30, 2009 11:22 PM EDT --
This is an exciting postcard; we met Bess Ruden in the past under a different name. The early postcards were mailed to her after her marriage to William.
This is a card she received the year . . .
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October 30, 2009 06:41 AM EDT --
Ruth Dent lived in Galloway, a small town is southwest Missouri (now, within Springfield, Missouri), and she loved to hear about exciting things elsewhere in the world.
In November of 1908, her . . .
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October 29, 2009 07:23 AM EDT --
I have a vintage photograph, albeit somewhat dirty and damaged, from the First World War.
There are two men in uniforms, which include shorts.
One man bears a patch with a cross, which (if it is not . . .
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