I’ve been reading about Ike for the last six months and have been wondering how to introduce him to my blog. We have a personal connection, Ike and I, because I participated in an Easter Egg hunt on the White House lawn during his presidency, when I was two years […]
I just got started on Ernie Pyle in my last entry, and I’m getting set to write about Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Mauldin and Vinegar Joe Stilwell, but tonight I’d like to write about ancient Rome, that wonderful cesspool of decadence and depravity. We in America like to think […]
A couple of years ago I went over to the Senior Center in Greenfield to hear my friend Harold play the piano and I got to chatting with a guy there who was in the Merchant Marine in World War II. I asked him where he served and he said […]
This is the first entry in my blog, ArmchairTravel. The purpose of this blog is to chronicle my journeys through history and literature in books from yard sales and flea markets so that others may enjoy these books as I have. I’m the kind of guy who has to go […]
