Boston is the city to visit during Labor Day weekend if you want plenty of options. The city goes all out on the holiday, saluting the end of summer with fireworks over the harbor, which you can enjoy close up on a Boston Harbor Cruise. Head to Fenway Park for a concert, or head up...
Did you know you probably have a Jersey Guy to thank for the long holiday weekend? Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. It also recognizes the deplorable working conditions many endured. It seems difficult today to comprehend the working conditions of ...
A proposal to celebrate Mildred Harnack day in the public schools was killed when a University of Wisconsin alumnus, an editor of an Oklahoma newspaper, argued that it was a damned shame his daughter would observe a holiday from school in honor of a damned Communist when she couldn’t even ...
In 2012, Tammy Baldwin was elected to the US Senate from Wisconsin Senator Baldwin is the first woman Wisconsin sent to the Senate and the first openly LGBTQ+ Senator in history. I’m thinking, this woman is gay and you never hear her name. Did anybody ever go to her and ask, “Senat...
Pete regularly took Alex to the Santa Monica Pier for a few rides at the amusement park. One weekend in Santa Monica they went to the pier only to find that the Democratic National Convention had rented the pier for the day in the run up to the 2000 presidential election. Alex was 5 ...