Red Pants, That’s France!
It doesn’t matter which Barbara Tuchman book you start with. You wind up reading them all and you wind up knowing a lot more about world history. Her career took off when John F. Kennedy was spotted reading “The Guns …
de Graff, de Grasse and the Siege at Yorktown
Back when I worked for the Senate president in New Hampshire, whenever I had to go down to the governor’s office, which was pretty often, I went down a stairwell with an imposing portrait of Johannes de Graff, the governor …
Consider the St. Lawrence Seaway
I’ve been reading about Ike for the last six months and have been wondering how to introduce him to my blog. We have a personal connection, Ike and I, because I participated in an Easter Egg hunt on the White …
The Emperor and the Transient Preacher
I just got started on Ernie Pyle in my last entry, and I’m getting set to write about Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Mauldin and Vinegar Joe Stilwell, but tonight I’d like to write about ancient Rome, that wonderful cesspool …
A Tennis Racket on Omaha Beach
A couple of years ago I went over to the Senior Center in Greenfield to hear my friend Harold play the piano and I got to chatting with a guy there who was in the Merchant Marine in World War …
Journeys Through History and Literature
This is the first entry in my blog, ArmchairTravel. The purpose of this blog is to chronicle my journeys through history and literature in books from yard sales and flea markets so that others may enjoy these books as …