1984 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Night after night Max sat at his desk working on his book. While he wrote, his wife, Denalyn, sat on the sofa doing cross-stitch. Writing a book had been a dream for Max. As a young pastor in Miami for two years, he had gotten plenty of...
November 7, 1939 – New Britain, Connecticut: Korczak Ziolkowski received a letter from Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota Indian Chief in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It began, “My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes,...
January 21, 1912 – Key West, Florida: At 10:34 a.m. the train from Miami arrived at the new Key West depot. Joined by dignitaries from North and South America, eighty-two-year-old Henry Flagler, with tears in his eyes, sat on the front seat of the first passenger car....
More than 30 years later, Bob Brenly still gets letters from pastors. They want him to know that they used what happened to him in September 1986 as a teaching moment in a sermon. Mike Krukow, a San Francisco Giants pitcher, would agree. After that bizarre major...
September 7, 1892, 9:00 p.m. – New Orleans, Louisiana: On a hot, sultry night in New Orleans more than 10,000 men, and a few women, crowded into the recently electrically illuminated Olympic Club to watch the Heavy Weight Boxing Championship. Tickets to the match...
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...
