All The Dirt All the Grit – Official Hoover Song 1922
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History
Flag of the Day – Star-Spangled Banner
Remembering Eddie Wolfe
Time Travelers
Shot Heard Round the World
“I immediately ordered our Militia to disperse, and not to fire: Immediately said Troops made their appearance and rushed furiously, fired upon, and killed eight of our Party without receiving any Provocation therefor from us.” – Captain Parker
Today is the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Akron Postcards
Aboard the W. G. Mather
Sailing into History
“You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck…I have no time for such nonsense.”
~ Napoleon
At the mention of steam power, we often envision roaring freight trains winding through the countryside. In the early twentieth-century, the power of steam was also moving massive freighters across the Great Lakes.
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Museum of Western Reserve Farms & Equipment
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. ~ Will Durant
History is Alive In Richfield, Oh
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Atlantic & Great Western
Making Tracks
Not far from my childhood home is a rail bed that once belonged to the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad. Many of my summer afternoons were spent patiently waiting along the rails for a glimpse of the local shortline freight train to pass. Those lazy afternoons gave me time to imagine what it would have been like to see a mighty A&GW train rumble pass.
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