by B.L. Unkel | Jul 27, 2024 | Travel
Today we travel across the country with ease. The first settlers weren’t so fortunate. Discoveries Recently, I took Mom to see the Tennessee State Archives and Library in Nashville. (I wrote about the TSAL in December’s DYK Tomorrow Never Comes?) To our...
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...
by B.L. Unkel | Jun 29, 2024 | History
This is the story behind the story of Arlington National Cemetery. The Beginning A couple of years after he married, John Parke Custis (Martha Washington’s son and George Washington’s stepson), purchased two plantations in northern Virginia to be closer to his...
by B.L. Unkel | Jun 22, 2024 | History
The federal government officially established Arlington National Cemetery on June 15, 1864. Though now our most honored military burial ground, that’s not how it began. National Cemeteries The Civil War claimed so many lives, the U.S. had to create the...
by B.L. Unkel | Jun 8, 2024 | Baking
What do you get when you combine and boil variations of two basic ingredients: sugar and butter? Answer: A sweet treat and sweeter memories. The Beginning Invented in the U.S., this boiled candy’s first confirmed written reference as “taffy” is found in the...
