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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Flag of the United States
It was on June 14, 1777 that The Continental Congress passed The Flag Resolution. It reads; “Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation [...]
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 [...]
Frances Ethel Gumm – The Early Years
On June 10, 1922, the youngest child of former vaudevillians Frank Gumm and Ethel Milne was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Frances Ethel Gumm, also called Baby, had her first stage performance at the age of two and a half when she appeared with her sisters Mary Jane and Dorothy Virginia singing Jiggle Bells [...]
Woodrow Wilson – President of Princeton University
On June 9, 1902, Woodrow Wilson became the President of Princeton University. He would hold the post until 1910 when he decided to run for the post of Governor of New York. At the time he was a professor at the University having joined the faculty in 1890.
Wilson is the only President to hold [...]
Accidential Celebrity
Frank Purdue
Frank Purdue was a chicken farmer from the eastern shore of Maryland town of Salisbury. In 1971 in an effort to spread word of his chicken into the New York area he was convinced by his advertising company to be the spoke person for his company.
Orville Redenbacher
Redenbacher spent his early life developing [...]
The Not Usual Places to See in Delmarva
Here are six places to visit in Delmarva that may not be on the usual Must-See lists.
New Castle Court House; New Castle, Delaware:
The Court House was built in 1732 over the remains of the prior Court House that had been destroyed by fire. It served as Delaware’s first state capitol. It is from the [...]
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