Robert Schornstheimer climbed into the pilot seat of a Boeing 737 on April 28, 1988, unaware that his routine flight between the Hilo International Airport in Hawaii and Honolulu would end up being the No. 1 news story in the world by the end of the day. The Marietta native and 1963 ...
The Ohio State Penitentiary fire of 1930 took more than 300 lives after it swept through the locked cells of the Columbus facility. Two of those killed were from Washington County. The large facility had been an imposing presence in downtown Columbus since 1834. If you have had fun ...
The United States Constitution opens with the famous words, “We the People,” which gives power to the voices of American citizens. In a Representative Democracy the people have the right to vote to let their elected officials know if they approve or disapprove of the job they have done over the past two, four or six years, or to vote for a new person to represent them. Now, is the season for “We the People” to vote! It is primary election time in Ohio. That means you must ask for a certain ballot when you go to vote, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or Issues Only. A voter can ...
When I was a child, my dad planted a sweetgum tree in our Florida backyard. The tree quickly grew in the sandy soil and became a great tree to climb. The many branches provided easy-to-reach “rungs” on which I could climb higher than the house. Decades later I had my own house in western ...
I've often read stories about the "last person killed" in a conflict. If only they hadn't been present at that time and place, their families must have thought. So it was with two early settlers, both named Sherman. One warm, humid June day in 1794, Abel Sherman went out to find his missing ...
When the great ocean liner Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic on April 15, 1912, it set off a media frenzy and a public obsession that still rings true today. The lack of reliable communications proved to be not only a factor that hindered recovery efforts, but also led ...
