Tag: history
The horses of war
The War Horses: The Tragic Fate of a Million Horses in the First World War by Simon Butler details the use, abuse, pain and suffering of horses used in World War I.
Truck transportation came a long way
A look back at the development of the Packard truck in the early 1900s.
Fishing for sport in the early days
Old Niagara Fort is highly recommended as a must-see addition for fishermen traveling to western Lake Ontario for salmon and trout fishing.
Looking back gives readers glance of past
Sam Moore shares a few humorous poems from his collection of old farm literature.
Museum gives public look at flying history
The Air Heritage Musuem has a room that’s filled with flying memorabilia, photos and paintings, models, uniforms and equipment, bomb sights, instrument panels and other aircraft parts.
Air museum preserves the legacy of pilot, teacher Ernie Hall
Ernie Hall was a leader and teacher of early flight, and this northeast Ohio museum preserves his legacy.
Advice to pioneers: Don’t take on too much
I have a bound volume of The Cultivator, a monthly agricultural paper published in Albany, New York, for the year 1841, almost 175 years...
Museum welcomes home Korean and Vietnam veterans
MAPS Air Museum welcomes home veterans from 1950-1975.
What was making news in America in 1939
October 1939: Poland was desperately fighting the German Wehrmacht in the west and the Red Army in the east, vestiges of the Great Depression lingered in this country, FDR was well into his 2nd term as President and your author was in his second month of 1st grade at Court School, a one-roomed frame building in western Pennsylvania.
New Coke, typesetting and tractors
The year I started at Farm and Dairy — 1985 — Coca-Cola attempted to change its 99-year-old formula to attract younger drinkers.
Anyone remember “New”...
