When I started to write about Fort McIntosh last week, it really was just about how to spend a pleasant hour on the banks of the Ohio River in a very pretty town while learning something from reading all of the signage. It is an…
Just a week ago I led off my column with a remark that I was tired of writing about America’s War of Independence with Great Britain. Easy for me to say. I did get swept up in some history programming about it, but in general…
About three weeks ago I mentioned that I spent the Independence Day Holiday watching several inspiring offerings on television. One of those happened to be the movie “Gettysburg.” I have watched the movie at least six or seven times in my life. As well I…
I am getting a little tired of playing who was who in the Revolutionary War, and what was named after them. If you have been reading this you probably are tired of it too. On the other hand there is, or was, a Thaddeus Kosciuszko…
Okay Mr. Kiefer, master digresser let’s get back on topic. We started off with how did some of our local places not named “Washington, Jefferson, Franklin or Adams” get their names, in the sense that they may have been derived from Revolutionary War leaders? In…
Over the Independence Day Holiday weekend I took the opportunity to sample a number of the shows dealing with the history of the United States. A personal high light was watching the entire 1993 production of Gettysburg, an ambitious project as a result of the…
As I write this, I look forward to the Independence Day holiday. Most of us just refer to it as the 4th of July and more or less think of it as a mid-point to the Summer season started with Memorial Day and concluding with…
Being born in Pittsburgh and attending local schools there, followed up by four years at Bethany College, a return to Pittsburgh for law school, then 47 years of practicing law in Hancock, Brooke and Ohio Counties, qualifies me to say that I am familiar with…
Perhaps it is the time of year. In the very recent past I dedicated my column to the meaning behind, and the history of, Memorial Day as we commemorate it. On the heels of that meaningful Holiday came the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings…