Archive September 2010
Hershel Woodrow WilliamsEarly yearsHershel Woodrow Williams was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, on October 2, 1923, He grew up on a dairy farm in nearby Quiet Dell. Hershel worked a series of odd jobs in the area, including as a truck driver for W. S. Harr Construction Company of Fairmont, ...
Hershel Woodrow WilliamsEarly yearsHershel Woodrow Williams was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, on October 2, 1923, He grew up on a dairy farm in nearby Quiet Dell. Hershel worked a series of odd jobs in the area, including as a truck driver for W. S. Harr Construction Company of Fairmont, ...
Donald LeRoy TruesdellDonald LeRoy Truesdell, son of Earl Trantham Truesdell and Maggie [Lee] Truesdell, was born on August 26, 1906, in Lugoff, South Carolina. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in November 1924.Donald Truesdell served as a Corporal in the United Stares Marine Corps during the 2nd Campaign ...
John BrownIn 1937, when I was 5 years old, my family moved to Akron, Ohio. We lived on Euclid Avenue. Our backyard bordered Perkin's Park, near the section with the tennis courts. It was like having a 76 acre playground. On one of my explorations of the wooded park, I ...
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Guest post about London by an expert on LondonThe last time I was in London was three or four years ago, just crossing by bus the city between two railroad stations. Everybody who knows me knows that I love to travel and to eat well (simple and ethnic, or fancy and ...
Pretend you're in a hotel lobby without leaving the airportWe've gotten used to pop-up retailing -- Halloween stores, Christmas stores, temporary leocations for clearance sales and the like -- but here's a new one on me. Courtyard by Marriott’s is updating its properties' lobbies and is inviting travelers to experience the redesign ...
Comfort? What comfort in Aviointeriors' proposed new design for a "semi-seat"Just when we thought that flying could not possibly get less comfortable, here's SkyRider, a doozy of a so-called seat that will probably be introduced this week to airline buyers (that's buyers for airlines, not buyers of airlines). There's a trade ...
Round-the-world cruise abruptly canceled as cruise line restructuresSome years back, our long-time friend Mike F. was briefly stranded in Tahiti when World Cruises (went bankrupt while he was in the middle of sailing around the world on a ship whose name I can't recall. He had fortunately purchased travel insurance, so ...
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