December 31, 1967 – Abingdon, Virginia: Five-year-old Doug Blevins and his father watched on TV as the Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys in the inaugural NFL championship game, the coldest game in league history. On that cold Sunday in the foothills of the...
1964 – Ackerman, Mississippi: Seventeen-year-old Cheryl Prewitt told her father she was thinking about entering the Miss Choctaw County pageant. “No daughter of mine is going to parade herself around on stage in front of a bunch of strangers in a beauty contest. I...
August 6, 1996 – El Capitan – Yosemite National Park, California: For three days, Ed Weihenmayer had been following his 28-year-old son Erik’s climb up the 3,000-foot granite wall called El Capitan. Ed sat in a lawn chair with his telescope, craning his neck as Erik...
2005 – Fort Hays State University – Fort Hays, Kansas: Nola Ochs was cleaning out a closet when she discovered a brochure from Fort Hays State University. She sent them an email enquiring about her old transcript. Academic adviser, Joleen Briggs, finally found Och’s...
1965 – Blackheath, England: Richard couldn’t read until he was 8. He found school boring. A high school teacher once wrote on his report card, “Richard tries very hard but has great difficulty in understanding the simplest mathematical process or in retaining any new...
June 1872 – New Court Congregational Church, London: Dwight L. Moody was the guest preacher at the church on a Sunday morning. Afterward, a young woman hurried home and told her bedridden sister, “Mr. Moody from America preached at our church this morning.” Marianne...
