by B.L. Unkel | Feb 2, 2021 | Holidays
When someone names a holiday, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it food? If it isn’t, I’ll bet food is a close second. EXAMPLES OF HOLIDAY FOOD: Thanksgiving = Turkey & Dressing New Year’s = Cabbage & Black-Eyed Peas Easter = Ham...
by B.L. Unkel | Jan 30, 2021 | History
According to www.dictionary.com, Pronunciation “is the act or result of producing the sounds of speech, including articulation, stress, and intonation, often with reference to some standard of correctness or acceptability.” But who decides what is correct? In one...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 12, 2020 | Baking
You never know when a great idea will hit you. For me, that happened five years ago when a friend and neighbor told me about an incident with her five-year-old middle son. She said she found him in the kitchen, staring into the empty tin that had held the cookies I’d...
by B.L. Unkel | Oct 31, 2020 | History
Have you ever visited a cemetery and just walked around reading the headstones? If you know what to look for, they can tell you a story. First—and most obvious—what is written on the headstone? Is there more than just the person’s name, birth, and death dates? Next,...
by B.L. Unkel | Oct 24, 2020 | History
One of my favorite cemeteries in the Nashville area is the Nashville City Cemetery. It’s the “oldest continuously operated public cemetery in Nashville.”1 It opened on January 1, 1822, and by 1850 contained over 11,000 graves of people from every race, religion, and...
