Every year when the calendar flips to August and the first mention of hurricanes comes across the airwaves, my mind flashes back to August 1969 and the week before my husband and I were married. Sunday, August 17, 1969, 3:30 pm. “This storm looks bad. My boss said there’s going to be a lot of […]
Carry on, Independence Day
We’re stretching out the Fourth of July celebration this year and maybe that’s a good thing. Flooding in parts of Iowa changed our travel plans for the holiday, so we stayed home for the Fourth. I was curious to see “Horizon,” Kevin Costner’s just released western, especially after spending the better part of three years […]
Remembering the Civil War on Memorial Day
“Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.” General John A. Logan 1868 Memorial Day, the day we honor fallen service members, traces its roots back to the Civil War. Southern […]