Last week I spent an afternoon visiting the USGA Museum and Library in Liberty Corner, New Jersey. If you like golf or sports of any kind, then you will enjoy the exhibits and the putting green out back. If it is a really nice sunshiny day (as it was the day I was there) and there are no other museum visitors, then they might let you go round the green twice (as they did me).
The 1977 comedy movie classic Smokey and the Bandit is leaving Netflix on August 1, so now is the time to watch one of my all-time favorite movies! Even if you have seen it before, it is worth watching at least one more time this summer. If you have not ever seen it, read on and then decide.
Jefferson is saying, in 1776, every American had the right to decide for themselves what will make their lives better and not be under the thumb of some old, rich, out-of-touch White guy living thousands of miles away. And, here, today, in the United States of America, this assertion is still a vitally important concept.
Or how Abraham Lincoln, acting in 1862, set a good example for all of us to follow forever more. This is something I learned about Abraham Lincoln by reading American Gospel (authored by Jon Meacham). I quote from the book: In December 1862, “General U.S. Grant, then headquartered in Mississippi, issued General Order 11, which expelled Jews from the states under his control. It had been decided that ‘Jews, as a class’ were responsible for smuggling. Lincoln had that order…
As I mentioned in my last post, I am reading a non-fiction booked called American Gospel, written by Jon Meacham. In that post, I mentioned Meacham had written about a prayer FDR shared with America on the evening of June 6, 1944 (D-Day). Meacham provides some interesting background about the prayer including this note, “The White House released the text to the afternoon newspapers with the request that the audience–estimated at 100 million Americans–read it along with the president. If that estimate…
I am reading, and very much enjoying, a non-fiction book called American Gospel, written by Jon Meacham. It is, as its title implies, a book about America’s attempts to keep Church and State separate. I thought I would share some points from the book in a few posts. Here, for example, is a prayer a minister recited at the 1944 church service to commemorate FDR’s first inauguration. Apparently FDR liked the prayer a great deal and was very happy to…