Celebrity homes are always a hot ticket. However, I will not be contacting my real estate broker, since the prices are a little out of my price range! I just found a few for sale in Palm Springs, California. I have been to Palm Springs, and if you like the desert, it […]

Bob Hope, who passed away in 2003 at the age of 100, will long be remembered for his wit, humor and service to the USO. He will also be remembered for the Bob Hope Classic, a golf tournament named for him since 1965. The Bob Hope Classic is held each January in Palm […]

You will probably not recognize the name H.H. Holmes, I didn’t either, but he is sometimes also known as American’s first serial killer. He was born in 1860 in New Hampshire as Herman Webster Mudgett. After graduating from medical school he took on the alias H.H. Holmes. He bought a pharmacy in […]

Following on my Disney theme, here are the Disneyland Rides and Places that I miss.

The Carnation Ice Cream Parlor on Main Street. We always used to have lunch here with ice cream sundaes to follow.
Main Street Electrical Parade. I still have the tune in my head. What a great parade after […]

As I was contemplating an Orlando Vacation, I thought back to when I grew up in California and we use to go to Disneyland at least once a year. Back then, you paid an admission fee and you also had to buy a book of tickets. The tickets were letter coded. We […]

Blackbeard the Pirate was born as Edward Teach in 1680. He was an English pirate that terrorized the seas from 1716 to about 1718. Not much is known about his early years, but he was a privateer before he became a pirate. As a pirate, on his ship Queen Anne’s Revenge, he […]

Samuel Fenton Cary was born February 18, 1814 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He became a lawyer in 1837, but stopped working as a lawyer to become a farmer in 1845. He devoted himself to work on temperance (the avoidance of alcoholic beverages) and anti-slavery projects. He wrote books and gave lectures […]

I always keep a book in my car. When I am waiting for kids to get out of school or for them to be through with their games or practices I get a few minutes of reading in. This time the “car book” is 1776 by David McCullogh.
The book starts out […]