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  At the end of the year, we will ring in 2023 hoping for more peace, happiness and success than we’ve had in 2022. Toward this end we make ...

  Market Street, 1905      On April 18, 1906, most residents of the San Francisco Bay area were still asleep. Those who were awake were al...

          In a few days, doorbells across America will ring incessantly for one evening. Adults inside the dwelling will answer the call, op...

  Samuel Wilson via Wikimedia      Samuel Wilson had no idea he’d go down in history and not in a way he ever would have imagined.       S...

  The temperance movement in the United States began nearly as soon as the country was founded. Many citizens considered drinking beer, wine...

       What comes to mind as the oldest European settlement in the United States? Jamestown, Virginia? Plymouth (as in: Rock), Massachusetts...

       Setting is as integral to a story as the characters and plot. It can also be important to backstory. When I was developing the backst...