as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.
as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.
Skip drinks because it’s: The Speed Limit You there, do you know how fast you were going? Ask it about: Can it drive 55? Most of us like to think that history is a parade of accomplishments, but when you get down to it somebody has to invent the everyday stuff, too – and as…
Have a drink with: Halloween hooligans Trick or treat, smell my feet… Ask them about: Mayhem, outhouses, peanut scramble. It was 1933, and Charles J. Dalthorp had had it. Writing in the Journal of Education in 1937, the superintendent of schools in Aberdeen, South Dakota, bemoaned the Halloween holiday and its attendant juvenile warfare. Describing…
Have a drink at: The White House Egg Roll Mr. President, can we play in your yard? Ask Rutherford B. Hayes about: Inviting 600 kids over for Easter It was 1876. Congress was debating expenditures, and they were in a pickle over the Capitol grounds – every year at Easter, the place was swamped with…
