A Fire in Space Exploration
President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s was well on scheduled until January 27, 1967. On that day the project was put on hold. A fire in the command module sitting atop a Saturn IB rocket, just weeks before the first manned Apollo mission [...]
Items to Keep in Your Car – Winter
A first-aid kit Actually for this one the season doesn’t matter. You should always have a first-aid kit in your car. Accidents, (I’m not referring to an auto accident, but a cut finger or nose bleed) alway seem to happen when you least expect it. In the winter part of your first-aid kit should include [...]
The Mayflower set Sails
Many know the story of how the Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower from Southampton, England (the same port where the Titanic set sail for New York nearly 300 years later) to settle on the shores of the New World. It was on September 6, 1620 that the ship left England. The ship was bound for [...]
The Chestertown Tea Party
Many are talking about the Tea Party who are in protest of the taxes as well as the size and policies of some of the Governments and Politicians of the United States, this is about an annual non political Tea Party that is in memory of Revolutionary Times. During the 18th century the Maryland Eastern [...]
A Slow Race
The race had already been delayed, it was originally scheduled for November 2nd, and was rescheduled to be run on Thanksgiving day, November 28th. Of the 83 cars that had agreed to run the race only 6 made it to the starting line. Of these 6, two were powered by electric, the other four were [...]
National Park Service
It was on August 25, 1916 that President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill, National Park Service Organic Act, that created the National Park Service. The agency mission as defined in the bill was “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same [...]
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is thought to have been born between August and October 1451 in Genoa, Italy. Little is known about his youth, although it is thought that he had a brother, Bartolomeo who may have worked in a cartography workshop in Lisbon. He did claim that he began his life at sea at the age [...]
Mary Surratt – The Woman, The Town, The Conspiracy
On July 7, 1865, four persons who had been tried and convicted in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln were lead to the gallows to be hung. At a little before 2 PM the trap door was tripped and the four fell to their death. Those hung that afternoon were Lewis T. Powell, George [...]
The Chevy Corvette
In many ways June 30th is the birthday of what many men think as their Dream Car. It was in 1953 when the first Corvette rolled off of the assembly line at the Flint Michigan Chevrolet Plant 39. In this production year only 300 Corvettes were built. The first two Corvettes off of the line [...]
A Trip to Remember
It was on April 10, 1912 that the unsinkable Titanic left Southampton England on it’s maiden voyage in route to New York City. It crossed the English Channel to take on additional passengers at Cherbourg, France and again on the 11th at Queenstown (presently known as Cobh), Ireland. The night of April 14th was cold, [...]
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