We’ve been busy since Fall 2023 getting ready for today. Together, last fall, Mom and I established a small business called Hope Wins Boutique to offer a variety of curated fashion finds online through poshmark and Hope Wins and transplant related designs on Etsy, created by yours truly. I...
The common is National Trust owned and the ponds (Little and Great, respectively) were originally created in the 13th century to provide Farnham Castle with fish. It is rather pretty. We go off trail for the first time here as a particularly steep hill holds appeal for those of us in ...
1927: Girl Scouts publish first s’mores recipe While the idea for a graham cracker sandwich with roasted marshmallow and chocolate had been around for some time, the first s’mores recipe didn’t make its debut until 1927 in “Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts.” The guidebook, wh...
“What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated.” You don’t have to the the one with the original vision to do something great for God. Leadership is about the...
Adams' reach doesn't stop there. The Patriots are famous for compartmentalizing: The scouts can't watch practice, the game planners don't know who they are going to draft, and so on. But Adams is into everything. During the draft, according to Michael Holley's "Patriot Reign," he's...
created stability and survival for the family. And although he adjusted, he never gave up that vision of his future. After his funeral, my uncle told me that “Pop” said once that if Grandma died first, he’d sell this house and be out of here in a flash, once again somewhere on ...
A preliminary glance at Glen Baxter’s artworks, and you’ll likely be drawn to the soft hues and fine lines of his somewhat traditional scenes. Boy scouts and school boys getting up to various antics, flat cap-wearing gardeners wrestling with fuchsias, bewildered policemen and musing cowboys...
Who founded the Boy Scouts movement? Who led the Mexican army in the Mexican War of Independence? Who invented the first sunglasses? Who established the United Monarchy? Who funded John Brown? Who created the New Model Army? Who invented the grenade? Who started the Freedom Riders movement?
Over the next four decades of her life until her death in 1973, Marjorie became one of America’s leading philanthropists who supported institutions such as the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts of America, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the future Kennedy Center for ...
Jim Justice II is governor of West Virginia, but he didn't make his fortune in politics. Justice inherited a coal business from his father and is a major owner of coal mines across the country. Justice is also a charitable man and has given millions to theBoy Scouts of America, the Cl...