March 20, 1998 – Walnut Creek, California: John and Aileen Crowley were on top of the world. Thirty-year-old John had graduated from Georgetown University then received a Juris Doctor degree from Notre Dame Law School before earning an MBA from Harvard Business...
October 1811 – Boston, Massachusetts: After applying to the American Board for Foreign Missions to become a missionary in India, Adoniram Judson discovered that single men were not accepted into the program. The twenty-three-year-old Brown University valedictorian and...
It was a snowy February afternoon in 1956 in New Holland, Pennsylvania, the location of the largest horse auction east of the Mississippi every Monday for more than fifty years. Almost 400 horses were sold that afternoon. No horse was left unsold. The last bidder had...
July 1918: Harry Peter Henry “Pee Wee” Reese was born in Ekron, Kentucky. He was so small that he did not start on his high school baseball team. In 1938 he was playing in a church league where the local minor league baseball team, the Louisville Colonels, discovered...
On Labor Day, September 1, 1986, Laura Schroff, a thirty-five year old ad executive with USA Today in New York City, had planned to take clients to see the U.S. Tennis Open. Heavy rain that morning canceled the Open and she found herself with nothing to do so she left...
It is 3:00 AM and the Robsham Theater Arts Center on the Boston College campus is quiet and deserted. Fred, the graveyard shift janitor, pushes his yellow cart from room to room carrying his mop, broom, and cleaning supplies. His job is monotonous and not real...
