Why Do We Wander Cemeteries?
I’ve done a lot of interviews since my book The Family Tree Cemetery Field Guide came out late last autumn, and the one question everyone asks is, “Why a book…
100 Years Ago – The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
The autumn of 1918 brought with it the prospect that The Great War would end in a few of months. Soldiers and citizens were beginning to feel uplifted again,…
Waverly Disaster
On a chilly Friday afternoon, just days after a train derailment in Waverly, Tennessee, a tanker car loaded with an unstable gas exploded during cleanup attempts. Sixteen people died in…
Did Opening King Tut’s Tomb Dig Up a Curse?
Valley of the Kings It was February 16, 1923, in the Valley of the Kings when the tomb of King Tutankhamen was officially opened. English Egyptologist Howard Carter had searched…
Remembering George Burns
George Burns Nathan Birnbaum was born on January 20, 1896 in New York City. He began his career singing harmony with other 6 and 7 year olds while making candy…
A Look Back at the 1971 Thiokol Chemical Plant Explosion
Location of Woodbine, Georgia Woodbine, Georgia was selected as the place to build the Thiokol Chemical Corporation in the mid-sixties, thanks to its close proximity to Cape Canaveral where the…