Indulge me a moment as I engage in some idle sports idolatry: In 1957, Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox slugger, batted an American League-best .388.Can you guess his batting average for the second half of the 鈥�57 season 鈥� from the first game after the all-star break to the last pitch in ...
The attack on the foreign flags at the George C. Marshall Memorial Plaza at Uniontown鈥檚 Five Corners 鈥� the suspect in the case told police the national emblems had no business flying in the good old U.S. of A. 鈥� brings to mind this fact: General-of-the Army Marshall was a nationalist in ...
鈥淗appy Fourth of July,鈥� we tell one another. We may not always mean it.This year鈥檚 celebration of national independence is not shaping up as an especially joyous one. Things are so unsettled.Let me count some of the ways.First. We Americans seem to be at one another鈥檚 throats, still, ...
If you鈥檙e in the neighborhood this week, you might want to stop at the mountainous Route 40 Summit hotel 鈥� officially the Historic Summit Inn Resort. It鈥檚 an anniversary, of sorts. Ninety-nine years ago on July 2, the president of the United States stayed the night, along with his wife ...
A. James Manchin, whose nephew, the senior lawmaker from West Virginia, is all over the news as the key Senate vote on a variety of topics (from infrastructure to voting rights), never shied away from the spotlight and, as a lifetime Democrat, worked for a Republican governor in the Mountain ...
Life-lessons come in many forms: some from experience, some from parents, relatives, friends, some from osmosis 鈥� it鈥檚 in the air, baby! Some lessons are drawn from books. These are book-lessons drawn from real life.To begin:Sometime toward the end of the madcap decade of the 1920s, the ...