1956 – St. Louis, Missouri: Calvin Peete was in terrible pain. The 12-year-old had fallen out of a tree at his grandmother’s house and landed on his arm. The x-ray showed his left elbow was fractured in three places. The physician recommended surgery, but there was no...
2009, The New York Times – 400 Most Influential New Yorkers List: Pete Hamill, the distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, made “The 400 Most Influential New Yorkers in the Past 400 Years” list. When an...
Robben Island was said to be Hell, a place of isolation and desolation, where many died. The small island, just three square miles, located just a few miles off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa had been a prison for political dissidents since the 17th century. The...
Each New Year we have the opportunity to write a new chapter in our lives. What we do with our life matters. What is it that you know in your heart you’ve been putting off but need to tackle this year? God created each of us with special talents and a unique destiny....
On October 28, 1953, at St. Bernard Hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas, a baby boy was stillborn. The nurse wrapped his cold, blue body in a blanket and placed it on a table in the corner of the delivery room as she went about cleaning up. Busy with her tasks, she passed...
Ramona Pierson’s father died of a heart attack when she was 12 years old and afterwards she was mostly on her own, essentially abandoned by her alcoholic mother. At age 16, with the assistance of a school guidance counselor and the aid of a full Marine Corps...
