Archive for History
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A New Month, A New Year
By Eloise Graham Editor-in-Chief January is a new beginning, right in the middle of the dead of winter. New Year’s resolutions and New Year traditions are big topics that first week of January. In fact, there are a couple of articles in this magazine featuring those topics. But what are ...
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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month….
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home At this time on this date in the year of 1918, the armistice or ceasefire of World War I was officially declared. Few living today could recall it. Few living then could possibly forget it. For the nearly one hundred years since, nations...
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Giving Thanks for Veterans, Freedoms, Voting and Feasting
By Eloise Graham Editor-in-Chief When hearing the word “November” most of us immediately think of Thanksgiving. Giving thanks for turkey, pumpkin pie, and family feasts. But we also need to remember to give thanks to: Our Veterans – November 11th is the federal holiday to honor all vete...
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The Year 1965 at a glance
The Great Arch in St. Louis is completed; it commemorates the Lousiana Purchase I 1808. Race riots in Watts section of Los Angeles leave 34 dead The Voting Rights Act becomes law. Medicare program for senior citizens medical assistance becomes law. The Beatles take the music world by st...
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My Alma Mater
By Mary Schricker Gemberling It can’t be! Say it isn’t so! Those were my thoughts when I opened the mail one day last month and found an invitation to my 50 year high school reunion. Unfortunately I will be over 6,000 miles away in Japan when the event is held next month, but I admit the in...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones Heroes – Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, John Wayne and me Back in my day, kids had heroes. Thanks in part to the spectacular work of mustachioed story teller and dream builder Walt Disney, kids got a double dose of American Heroes each and every week. Sometimes the heroes were dogs...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Eloise Graham See You in September Ah, that song always made me think of school beginning. To me, and probably many of you readers, September was the beginning of school. Let’s take a little trip down memory lane. “See You in September” was first released in 1959 by a group called The ...
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Labor Day – a day set aside to not labor!
By Eloise Graham Editor-in-Chief Labor Day What is Labor Day? Why do we have it? Who started it? Labor Day is a national holiday, the first Monday of September. It is known by many as the last three-day-weekend of the summer. Many families load up the car or camper with camping gear and ...
