Sunday, January 6, 1850 – Colchester, England: It was the worst snowstorm in years. John Egglen thought about skipping church, but he put on his coat and boots and trudged six miles to the small Primitive Methodist Church on Artillery Street. He arrived to an almost...
May 24, 1883 – Brooklyn Bridge, New York City: With tears in his eyes, Washington Roebling watched through his telescope from his house as his wife Emily rode in a carriage across the newly completed Brooklyn Bridge.In her lap was a rooster, a symbol of victory. In...
1930 – San Francisco: He weighed eleven pounds at birth, and the hospital nurses nicknamed him Samson. His father was a migrant steelworker and the family frequently moved up and down the West Coast as his father chased jobs during the depression. The family...
He knew the pain of being labeled inept, incompetent, too old, and too unconventional. He was considered to be a B-rated cowboy movie yahoo who might have done okay as governor, but wasn’t smart enough to handle U.S foreign policy and certainly not capable of being...
1902 – Portland, Oregon: Bobbie LeTourneau’s father told him, “OK, you’re determined to amount to nothing, so I’m going to let you quit school.” He found his 14-year-old seventh grader a job as an iron molder apprentice at the East Portland Iron Works hoping that...
Summer 1997 – Los Angeles, California: Too disappointed to speak, fifteen-year-old Misty Copeland sat on the sofa in the living room of her ballet teacher, Cindy Bradley. Misty held the rejection letter from a top American ballet academy. It read, “Thank you for...
