Martha’s Musings
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Thank you—you’re entered! And I know Tina is grateful for your help clearing out her office! I’ll announce the winner my next newsletter. — Martha
Ray Daves, the Sailor Who Shut Down a Post Office in Arkansas
image by zapomicron, deposit photos Summary Ray Daves lied about his age to join the Navy in 1938 and was stationed at Pearl Harbor by December 1941. His firsthand account of the attack combines the gravity of that day with glimpses of the humor and grace that defined...
Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt: How Their Violent Pasts Led to Springfield
Wild Bill Hickok’s legend is often traced to one gunfight in Springfield, Missouri, on July 21, 1865. Davis Tutt is mainly remembered for dying in that moment. Neither man, though, came from anything like a peaceful beginning. Photograph by Martha Hutchens. Image on...
Travel Stop for the Kid in All of Us
Dinosaur Tracks, Clayton Lake New Mexico Who's that getting footy prints all over my desert?--Yosemite Sam Among the more than 500 hundred prints are the tracks of at least two different carnivores, and two herbivores, including...
What happens when a family of female French farmers meet a Nazi invasion force?
“Not enough time . . .Evil lurked on the horizon, prowling like a hungry lion. Tonight Gabrielle would prepare for the unthinkable.” The unthinkable being a Nazi force overrunning her vineyard and stealing the champagne her family has been producing for the last two...
Book Review for Bridge of Gold by Kimberly Woodhouse
"Certain moments in life define a person." Margo Hunley, a nanny living in 1933 could not know how prophetic those words were, as she stood by the bridge that her soon-to-be fiancé, Luke Moreau, would be helping to build. During his diving to build the support of the...
