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July 3, 2020 (Friday)

February 17, 2020 (Monday) Today is Presidents Day. How we got the third Monday in February to be designated as Presidents Day

September 24, 2019 (Tuesday) Charles T. Studd wrote a poem that begins with the words, “Only one life.”  My dear mother-in-law, Berta Holiday Sadler, heard it one day and never forgot it.  Before her death in 1985, she chose a monument large enough to include the name of her husband, Louie J. Sadler, alongside hers, […]

September 9, 2019 (Monday) I’ve written about a few of of our presidents. Today I want to write about the house they lived in, in Washington, D.C.  The District of Columbia was established and the city of Washington became a planned city from the ground up. The White House was part of the plans. George […]

October 2, 2019 (Wednesday) This blog is copied from “America’s Story,” a web site published by the Library of Congress. Jame Monroe, our 5th president (1817-1825), was born on April 28, 1758, in Westmoreland County, Virginiam and died on July 4, 1831, in New York, New York Monroe is perhaps best known for establishing the […]