by B.L. Unkel | Oct 17, 2020 | History
As I said last week in Did You Know You Can Be Alive and Still Be Pronounced Dead? people in years past had a genuine fear of being buried alive. The fear of that happening, called taphophobia, hit its peak in the Victorian era (apx. 1820-1914). Prior to embalming...
by B.L. Unkel | Oct 10, 2020 | History
Literally, the night after I wrote Did You Know You Don’t Have to Die to Be Buried? I read an article about a Detroit funeral home whose morticians found the corpse recently delivered to them wasn’t a corpse at all. She was breathing. EMS arrived—questioning the call,...
by B.L. Unkel | Oct 3, 2020 | History
We’ve all heard: “Kids say the darndest things.” Well, here’s a story from my family. Years ago, when two of my sisters and two of my young nieces were visiting me in Tennessee, I was playing tour guide, showing them all things family-related—old homeplaces,...
by B.L. Unkel | Sep 11, 2020 | History
More than half a century ago, a Texan was appointed governor of the U.S. Territory of Guam. The island faced a number of problems, one being how to deal with crop-destroying snails. The man the governor had appointed as his Agricultural Secretary, a friend and fellow...
