Wishing all my friends and family a happy new year - been away too long - but hopefully I'll be back more often this year - hope you all are safe and doing well

Today's b-day - Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) - Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch genre and l...

TDIH 1864 - Nevada day

TDIH 1846 - Donner Party snowbound

TDIH 1941 - Work on the Mount Rushmore monument was completed. - interesting fact - took 14 years to complete and during that time - no deaths occurred (fact from my JGDS predecessor story Train of Clues)

Today's b-day - Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) - Propaganda Minister of the Nazi Party of...

TDIH 1966 - National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded

TDIH 1929 - First Oscar night (on the heels of the stock market crash? - that's some powerful acting to get through that)

TDIH 1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashed on Black Tuesday, precipitating the Great Depression. (and I always thought it was Black Monday)

Afghan raffle chances on sale until November 15 - 2/$1 - buy as many or as few as you would like - email me at [email protected] for more information