10 Million Millionaires
I was just reading that there are now over 10 million millionaires in the world. A millionaire is defined as a person who has a net worth of over million dollars, not including the equity of that person’s principal residence. One in three of these millionaires live in America with India, China and Brazil having [...]
Chesapeake City and Canal Day
If the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal had not been built during the early part of the 19th Century, more than likely the town of Chesapeake City may not exist. It was at a location originally called Bohemia Village, that two locks were established to allow vessels to pass through the different water levels. As the [...]
West Virginia
June 20th is celebrated as West Virginia Day in West Virginia. It was on that day in 1863 that the State of West Virginia, during the Civil War, broke away from Virginia and was admitted in the the Union becoming the 35th United State. Soon Virginia voted to secede from the union on April 17, [...]
Maryland’s Eastern Shore
A little more than a third of Maryland’s land area is located in the nine counties that makes up the Maryland portion of Delmarva. In the 2004 census the population of the area was nearly 491 thousand. This is only about 8% of Maryland total population. Maryland was named in the honor of Henriette Maria, [...]
Louise Fazenda
One of the many silent film stars who appeared in films made by Mack Sennett and Keystone Pictures was Louise Fazenda. Fazenda was born in Lafayette Indiana on June 17, 1895 to a merchant broker named Joseph Fazenda. He moved his family to Los Angeles when she was a young girl. Louise Fazenda got her [...]
The Musical – In The Heights
It stems back to my senior year in High School. I needed to select one final class in my schedule. I decided to take a Drama Class and from there I’ve always had a fondness for the theater and like many others Broadway. I watched, along with many other theater lovers the Tony Award. But [...]
Broadway’s Tony Awards
The American Theatre Wing established an award to celebrate excellence in the theatre. The award was named for Antoinette Perry, an actress, director producer and the wartime leader of the American Theatre Wing who had passed away. The first awards were held on Easter Sunday April 6, 1947. Eleven awards were presented in seven categories. [...]
Top Songs of 1975
While I was watching my son’s high school graduation I thought back on mine many years ago in 1976. Since graduation is at mid year, many of the songs of my prom and graduation were songs of 1975. The 6th biggest Billboard song of 1975 was Glen Campbell and the Rhinestone Cowboy. At number 5 [...]
Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers
Forty-Five years ago on June 12, 1963, civil rights activist and NAACP leader Medgar Evers was on his way to his home in Jackson Mississippi when he was struck down by an assassin’s bullet. Earlier in the day, President John F. Kennedy had delivered a speech supporting civil rights on national television. Evers was born [...]
Lewes Delaware
Lewes is located on the Atlantic Ocean and is pronounced ‘Lewis’. The Dutch settlement of Hoerekil was founded in 1631, near Lewes and was one of the first settlements of Delaware. In fact it’s because of this settlement that Delaware is not part of Maryland. When Cæcilius Calvert was given the grant for Maryland in [...]
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