Archive for History
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Veterans Day at Ridgecrest Village is something to talk about!
By Karen McCoy Marketing Director Ridgecrest Village We celebrate Veterans Day every year, but how many of us actually know where the holiday came from? Most people know that Veterans Day is a day to honor Americans who have sacrificed their lives for our country, but there is more to the sto...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Eloise Graham Election Day My first presidential election in which I was eligible to vote was 1968. I lived in Michigan at the time. To become registered, my husband and I went to this little farmhouse out in the country and showed our drivers licenses. We then voted. That was sure different t...
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Voting, Veterans and Vittles
By Eloise Graham Voting… The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” It was ratified on February 3, 1870 and a...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones A Haunting Challenge for October... Since it’s October and Halloween is fast approaching, spook stuff is in order. But first here is a little background on the whole Halloween phenomenon. What do I mean by “phenomenon”? All Saints or All Hallow Eve sprang up as a religious holi...
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Pumpkin Pie
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain — amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Could there be, or should there be an overwhelming bunch of thinking about why we collect things or just one thing and keep it around for all time to come. The big answer is that we choose to collect, and sometimes display the line of things we treasure building or buying a case ...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones On this day in history - QC Style Back when I was a kid, my dad had every radio in the house tuned to the local small town radio station. We listened to shows like the swap shop; where folks would come on the air and announce they were selling three good sized boxes of used Mason j...
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History Repeats Itself!
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Change comes fast; it’s acceptance that’s slow.” -Will Rogers Americans are disenchanted with both presidential candidates. Racial tension is widespread. The second amendment is being threatened by gun control advocates. Technology is mindboggling. And we...
