A Town On The Bay
Betterton is a small town of under 400 on the Chesapeake Bay. Looking at it today one would not know that during the 1st half of the 20th Century it was a summer resort with arcades and amusements for people to escape the heat of the cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia. There were daily scheduled [...]
Screen’s First Sex Symbol
Nearly 100 years ago Theda Bara was one of the biggest Silent Screen Stars, now other than those who are fans of Silent Movies she is almost completely unknown. She made more than 40 feature films between 1914 and 1926 however most of these films are considered ‘Lost films’ since complete prints of only six [...]
A Sea Venture
It was the summer of 1609 when the Sea Venture lead a fleet of nine vessels loaded with provisions and settlers for the Virginia Colony in Jamestown. When the fleet encounter a storm, probably a hurricane on July 24th the Sea Venture became separated from the fleet. After fighting the storm for three days the [...]
Happy Birthday Gracie
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen, of the comic team Burns and Allen was born on July 26 in San Francisco. Her death record shows 1902 as does her grave marker. This date was given by her husband George Burns, who had said he was never sure in what year she was born. All public records [...]
Top Movies 1975
Peter Sellers returns for the third time in the role of Blake Edwards’ blumbling Inspector Clouseau in Return of the Pink Panther. This was the first of the sequels to have Pink Panther in the title since it did have the famous Pink Panther Diamond that was featured in the original. Dog Day Afternoon was [...]
It Was Perfect
Mark Buehrle probably breathed a sigh of relief when the long fly ball off of the bat of Gabe Kapler was caught by DeWayne Wise. Not only did Wise bring what would have been a Home Run back into the ballpark for an out, it kept his perfect game intact. Two batter later when Jason [...]
Ice Cream and the Waffle
By some accounts the very first ice cream cone was sold at the St. Louis World’s Fair on July 23, 1904. There may have been as many as 50 ice cream vendors and more than a dozen waffle stands at the fair. One of many accounts has it that waffle vendor Ernest Hamwi made a [...]
The Summer of ’69
When thinking back 40 years to the Summer of ’69, a year also made famous in the Bryan Adams songs, one will see that there are many things to look back on during this summer besides the Moon Landings. In baseball 1969 was the first year that the leagues expanded to 12 ball clubs each [...]
Social Networks
The biggest craze today seem to be online social networks. A few years ago it was MySpace, then Face Book and now we are all in a Twitter. Social Networks are not new and in the future they will still be here, only in ways that some high school teen developer is only now imagining. [...]
Or Did They?
It seemed to be an incredible accomplishment. Man not only flew to the Moon, but they walked upon it before the end of the decade of the 1960s, just as ordered by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. But it didn’t take long before there were those who not only said that reaching the moon [...]
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