My grandfather, who passed away in 2009, was attached to an infantry unit that served in a support role during the Second World War. He was a combat engineer who would have taken part in the Normandy Invasion (and most …
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One late summer day, when I was 19 and home from college, I picked up the first volume of Carl Sandburg’s sweeping biography of Abraham Lincoln. Day became evening, and, dismissing dinner, I continued to read into the night. Upon …
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We just lived through the numerically ominous date 12/12/12 unscathed, but what will happen on the day of the Winter Solstice, 12/21/12? December 21, 2012 is a day of reckoning, according to the Mayan Long Count calendar, and some predict …
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Like all members of Generation X, I was, in one way or another, affected by the grunge movement. When “Smells Like Teen Spirit” took to the air-waves in the autumn of 1991 (unbelievably, 21 years ago), one had to have …
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“Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest” by Wade Davis often reads as though sliced into two or even three books. Jumping among distinctly different worlds — the before, during and after of the mechanized …
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Much of what we know about the tumultuous years of the 1960s and early 1970s came from the mainstream press outlets and especially the newspapers at the time. Coverage of protests and especially the cultural aspects of the “Movement” (art, music, …
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