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There’s a very special place in Boston I had never heard of untll Kevin Moore told me about it last winter and …
There’s a very special place in Boston I had never heard of untll Kevin Moore told me about it last winter and …
After two long years away from the Washington area, Steve and I returned in June to visit longtime friends–friends who are not …
Our family is celebrating four special days this month: one wedding anniversary, two birthdays, and one Father’s Day with three honorees. Thirty years …
Proud Shoes is the first book I’ve read that presents the Civil War and its aftermath from the viewpoint of a free Black …
St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States, is a place Steve and I love to visit. We first went there …
Dr. Dorothy Height was a woman who knew how to get things done. The headquarters building of the National Council of Negro …
Today, March 18, 2021, marks 100 years since the birth of my mother-in-law, Marie Barnard Smith Lilly, in Pampa TX. She died …
Wallace Stegner’s novel, Angle of Repose, is a powerful portrait of pioneers in the Western United States in the years 1876-90, during …
Florence Price was the first Black woman composer to have a work performed by a major symphony orchestra. The Chicago Symphony played her …
After the appalling assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, I was worried about what might happen two weeks later at …