1904, Strasbourg, France: Albert Schweitzer, a 30-year-old Lutheran minister and theology professor at the University of Strasbourg, was paging through a Paris Missionary Society publication when he read an article by a doctor about the dire medical needs of people in...
1860, Greenwich, New York: Anna Mary Robertson was born on a farm along with five brothers and four sisters. She did her share of the chores around the farm. At age twelve with money scarce, she began hiring out to work on more affluent neighboring farms. She pursued...
May 10, 1508 – Rome, Italy: Michelangelo Buonarroti reluctantly signed the contract. Two year earlier, when he had first been approached by Pope Julius II to tackle the project, he fled Rome rather than commit to the Pope’s request. He was overwhelmed by the magnitude...
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...
In 1986 fifty-seven-year old Sharon Elliott was flabbergasted to learn from her 86-year-old mother, Faith Morrow, that she had been adopted. Faith had promised herself that she would never tell Sharon her secret, but dying from cancer changes your plans. Sharon had...
In 2000, the World War II veterans group to which Ernie Andrus belonged decided to tackle the restoration of a WWII LST ship. Andrus’ interest in the project was piqued by the fact that for 18 months he had served as a medic aboard such a vessel in the South Pacific....
