The ponies make the annual swim from Assateague Island, Va., to Chincoteague Island, Va., during the 90th Pony Swim on Virginia’s Eastern Shore
Category: History in Photos
When America was attacked, America went to war
History in Photos: There was a Democrat politician, a camel herder and a camel who walked in a bar…
We put beer on ice in garbage cans, booze and paper cups on boards, and the customers helped themselves. “Rue’s Roost” never closed! All our help pitched in on the move. Fran Harris came with us on the Friday morning of the opening.
There are nearly 83,000 service member who died in wars overseas who are still listed as missing.
Financial difficulties resulting from the Great Depression reportedly caused the closing of Cardinal Gibbons in 1933. Cardinal Gibbons was reopened by Father Horace B. McKenna in 1936.
At lunch in Trader Vic’s in Washington DC in 1995, hosted by Bradlee for the purpose of giving his view on government to two newly elected Republican St. Mary’s County Commissioners, Larry Jarboe and Chris Brugman, Bradlee had a lot to say about the GOP takeover of Congress in the previous year’s election.
One thing that he said that stood out in my mind was that with so many Republicans elected to Congress and the dramatic shift of GOP being in charge of Congress for the first time in forty years, that there would be plenty for reporters to write about.
“They will be able to come to work and fill their lunch buckets every day,” Bradlee said.
History— The Sequoia was the scene of some of America’s most historic events: It was used during the Harding administration to enforce Prohibition; Herbert Hoover …
Penny used to get a piano and sing,
“I made my mind up
I’m going to wind up
Down-in DORSEY LAND
I’m going to wind my way
Down along the Ches-apeake Bay etc.”
His father Israel Millison, known everywhere as “Jake,” came to America shortly before the turn of the century from Lithuania.