by B.L. Unkel | Oct 5, 2024 | History
Talk about stars that can do it all. Woodward Maurice Ritter certainly fits the bill. And if the name doesn’t sound familiar, that’s because you know him by his nickname, “Tex” Ritter. Early Life Tex Ritter was born on January 12, 1905, in Murvaul, Texas, the...
by B.L. Unkel | Aug 31, 2024 | Everything Else
Many things we consider staples in today’s world were discovered or invented by happy accidents. This toy is one of them. The Beginning In the early 1940s, Richard James, a naval engineer at a navy shipyard in Philadelphia, was trying to solve the problem of...
by B.L. Unkel | Aug 10, 2024 | Everything Else
Have you ever bought secondhand items? The old saying about one man’s trash being another’s treasure is true. The Beginning In the U.S. during the nineteenth century, people faced uncertainty and conflict. The country was in trouble, and so were her citizens....
by B.L. Unkel | Aug 3, 2024 | Travel
How often do you get off the main highways and take smaller country backroads? If you’re like me, not often enough. All those years driving between Tennessee and Texas—and making the trip in one day—meant I never had the time to deviate off my route, no matter how...
by B.L. Unkel | Jul 13, 2024 | Travel
Have you ever attended a World’s Fair? Do you even know what it is? The Fair In the U.S., it’s called a “World’s Fair.” Continental Europe and Asia know it as an International or Universal “Exposition”—Expo for short—while the United Kingdom refers to it as an...
