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December 07, 2009 03:50 PM EST -- The Impossible Railroad From the time the United States acquired California from Mexico in 1846, the driving forces of San Diego longed to have a direct railroad line to the east. But that . . . more
November 09, 2009 01:38 PM EST -- Armistice Day – Remembering those who died in World War I There are probably a very few veterans of WWI left alive now, and the memories of it have faded. It is appropriate to focus on . . . more
November 19, 2009 07:56 PM EST -- For the last year PBS has interrupted its regular schedule about once a month on weekends for pledge breaks, and they would continue that for several weekends in a row. They would substitute . . . more
December 03, 2009 06:46 AM EST -- Here I am again, wide-awake at 1:30 in the morning after having four solid hours of sound sleep. It was the very vivid and happy dream that I was having that woke me up, but it was probably just . . . more
October 12, 2007 04:24 PM EDT -- Blowing in the Wind at the Horse Camp! My new computer is set up so that the first page clues me in to what month and day it is, and the local weather conditions. The trouble is it gives me the weather . . . more
April 22, 2007 09:27 AM EDT -- Eighth Grade Final Exam, Salina, Kansas, 1895 – Reposted as a Prelude Remember when grandparents said that they only had an eighth grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed . . . more
July 12, 2008 12:31 PM EDT -- Every once in a while in conversation about the government someone will correct me when I call the USA a democracy. "No", they say, "this country is not a democracy, it is a republic!" . . . more
December 06, 2006 08:39 PM EST -- Flaggie’s Letter to His Mother After the Great Chicago Fire Oct. 8, 1871 (edited and reposted)   While rummaging in boxes for pictures, I ran across a copy of a letter written in 1871 by . . . more
April 01, 2007 02:08 AM EDT -- Dead Man’s Hole   You can unearth some strange stories from the early years in the mountainous backcountry of San Diego County, but this is one of the strangest. If you travel up into the . . . more
November 02, 2008 11:42 AM EST -- When you first registered to vote, what caused you to declare yourself a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independent or some other party? I'll bet that, like me, a lot of people chose the party . . . more
December 09, 2006 01:41 PM EST -- Seven Nuns From Carondelet   The country where I now live on the foothills of the Laguna Mountains is still rugged, but back in 1870 it was barely accessible. The trails were steep with many miles . . . more
December 09, 2006 04:33 PM EST -- Progress Has Been Made in the Last Three Hundred Years.   After fooling around on this keyboard since 5AM this morning, at 11 AM I developed a headache, and thought I would just lie down for a . . . more
February 27, 2008 11:35 AM EST -- Decisions, Decisions! I'm off to a good start this morning. I took my pills, fed Chatterbox, my sick old female cat, cleaned the cat boxes, filled my 7-day pill boxes - one for morning pills and . . . more
February 04, 2007 07:28 PM EST -- Charley Hook Took Over the Ranch This story is a sequel of 'Rebecca Hook and her Family', written recently by this author.    Nine-year-old Charley Hook was sitting on the corral . . . more
February 20, 2007 08:46 AM EST -- Hatfield the Rainmaker Did It In Campo   It happened 91 years and about a month ago before this ano domini 2007. There were a series of rainstorms during January, 1916 in San Diego County that . . . more
November 28, 2006 07:29 AM EST -- Not Rootless After All   My father bought a farm in southern Connecticut in 1928 when I was six years old. and he sold it in 1941. My childhood was spent on that farm and in retrospect it seems . . . more
December 20, 2006 03:27 AM EST -- My Grandmother Emily   Today, I ran across some big words that needed research to get the full meaning of the article. My thrift shop dictionary, a Thorndike Barnhart, failed the test. There were . . . more
October 04, 2009 03:51 PM EDT -- What makes Cajuns so special in America and the bayous southwest of New Orleans is their unique French culture that they brought with them when they were exiled from what is now New Brunswick, . . . more
May 16, 2009 03:07 PM EDT -- It was arrowheads turned up by spring plowing back in the 1930s on my father's farm in southern Connecticut that lit the first spark of interest in history for me. I wondered about people who had . . . more
May 04, 2008 10:56 AM EDT -- What Does 'Going Back to Basics' Mean to You? A friend told me he looks upon going back to basics as living within one's means - no charging. That's right of course, but it is only . . . more
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