Alabama State Capitol Now a Ghost Town
I often tell a story about my daughter that goes back to a time when she was only three years […]
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The Lunch Box Museum
It was a blustery, sunny, Fall day. The boys and I were headed to Columbus, Georgia where their grandmother had
The Airplane Crash that Spelled Success!
The morning of December 17, 1903 was dark and windy on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Despite the windy
A Visit from Ol’ St. Nick
On December 23rd, 1823, a newspaper in Troy, New York, published an anonymous poem that has become our vision of
Tell me it ain’t so!
Many of you reading this are going to be very disappointed to learn this little kept secret about the iconic
Where Is Two Egg, Florida? The sad tale of how Two Egg got it’s name.
Times were hard and families were doing all they could do just to survive. Families, children, and animals were daily fighting off hunger. Part of the daily routine was for mothers to send their children up to the store to barter for goods. Fresh eggs were acceptable currency at most general stores. They’d barter for “Two Eggs” of sugar, “Two Eggs” of flour, or “Two Eggs” of snuff, tobacca, or candy. Some of the traveling Drummers (traveling salesmen) observed so many people bartering at the ol’ Lawrence Grocery that they hung the moniker of “Two Egg” on the town. Well the drummers spread the name “Two Egg” all over that part of the country. And Lo’ n B’hold the moniker stuck and the little cross roads became famously known among those parts as Two Egg. In 1940, the name Two Egg appeared on an official State of Florida road map and has been there ever since.
The Boston Molasses Tsunami
It was no laughing matter when a 90-foot wide cast iron tank holding more than 2.5 million gallons of molasses
Where is London Bridge? Well, it ain’t in London.
London Bridge is a bridge that has spanned the River Thames in London, England since 1831. But, it ain’t there no more. This
Walking Across the Golden Gate Bridge
If you have ever been in San Francisco with a little time on your hands, you’ve prob’ly thought about walking
Gunfight On Vine Street
It happened long before the ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Corral’ in the former State Capitol of Alabama, Old Cahaba. In
The Truth is — Independence Day Ain’t July 4th
We American’s enjoy a good time. And, one of our most fun filled days every year is the celebration of
Atomic Bomb Explodes in South Carolina
No doubt, many people reading this will think it a hoax. But, this really did happen. An Atomic Bomb was dropped on South Carolina.
This 1899 $5 Bill Pictures A Famous Indian Chief – Who Was He?
The 1899 Bank Note portrait is of Chief Takoka-Inyanka or Running Antelope of the Oncpapa or Hunkpapa Sioux tribe. Running Antelope was