MemoriesandMiscellany

At the Wisconsin State Fair in 1938, Clifford Marshall Thompson who recently had quit a job with the Cole Brothers Circus, strolled throug...

In the past this blog has featured vintage glass paperweights that depict products from an earlier age but today are found mainly in museu...

A few months ago I came across the photograph, shown here, of a crossroads store, bar and gas station in a hamlet called Melrose, located ...

During the summer of 1973, the Watergate scandal broke open as the Senate Judiciary Committee conducted an investigation into the events s...

When I was a kid during World War II,  we spent part of our summer months on the farm of my aunt and uncle.  In those days of food rat...