When our alarm rang at 6:30am on Sunday October 10, 2021, my photographer hopped out of bed and immediately went to the window to see if the sky was clear. But the sun wasn’t scheduled to rise for another half-hour,…
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151: THE FACE OF HISTORY CHANGED WITH GRACE
Fifteen days after I had visited The Henry Ford Museum with my photographer and Bob Moldenhauer, I was on the road once again – but this time Vicki was with us instead of Mongo. And that meant only one thing:…
150: R-E-S-P-E-C-T FOR ROSA AND ARETHA
I was standing on the kitchen shelf waiting for our short trip to Dearborn, Michigan to begin when I envisioned a certain blonde from the 1950s and 60s singing “Happy Birthday Mr. President”. But instead of Marilyn aiming her affection…
146: A MORNING AT IKE’S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Throughout the night, as I stood sentinel in our Comfort Inn room that overlooked Gettysburg’s Evergreen Cemetery, I watched for wayward spirits roaming aimlessly around the historic burial ground. I saw none, which was okay with me because I’m not…
144: RINGIN’ THE BELL OF FREEDOM IN PHILADELPHIA
For most normal people, Sunday is usually a day of rest and relaxation. Those words don’t exist when my photographer and Mongo are on the road together visiting historic sites, which was the case on Sunday May 23, 2021. As…
142: IN THE FATUOUS FOOTSTEPS OF FORTY-FIVE
For some strange reason, my photographer didn’t set his alarm clock for the morning of Friday May 21, 2021. And because of that, Tom got an extra nine minutes of sleep before we headed out on our final day in…
124: “FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO”
Thirty-three days had passed since my trip with my photographer and Mongo to Canton and Kent, Ohio. While the COVID-19 pandemic had seemed to slow a bit in the past month, it was definitely not over. Luckily for us, hotels…
121: TIPPECANOE AND LINCOLN, TOO
The Sun had already risen over the Mississippi in Louisiana, Missouri on Sunday morning July 28, 2019. My photographer’s grand scheme of shooting images of a beautiful sunrise over the river went awry; he couldn’t get his butt out of…
102: ENTOMBED, YET ALIVE, IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL
When the alarm clock went off at exactly 6:00am on Thursday May 16, 2019, my first thought of the new day was I was happy to be alive. Although my head was still kinked slightly to the right and both…
97: THE LEGACY OF LINCOLN WAS ALIVE IN RICHMOND
By 3:00pm on May 12, 2019, we had completed the 16-mile drive from Tuckahoe Plantation to Hollywood Cemetery. The first thing that popped into my resin-filled head when I heard we were in Hollywood was whether or not I would…