Steven | November 26, 2008
Here’s something you don’t run across every day. This is the clipped signature of John S Wise, who was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute during the Civil War, and fought as cadet at the Battle of New Market. Later in the war he became a Lieutenant in the Confederate Army. After the war, [...]
Steven | November 22, 2008
Thought I’d get back into the the habit of really updating the blog, instead of just posting “twitters” in the side column. Today’s look is at Mr. Durbin Ward of Ohio. Self-taught and a voracious reader as a youngster, as an adult he passed the bar and became law partners with fellow Whig Thomas Corwin, [...]
Steven | September 17, 2008
I was photographing this this morning, and something was bugging me about it. Then I realized what it was- the kids’ holsters are empty, and they’re hiding the fact with their hands. I guess political correctness is older than we think. (The magazine is in wonderful shape, though. You can find it listed tonight on [...]
Steven | September 15, 2008
Folks of a “certain age” can immediately finish the saying in the title of this post, and probably remember getting the comic book in school that told the story of the real-life Smokey Bear, a black bear cub found up a burned tree after a forest fire, his paws and hindquarters severely burned. This original [...]
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