Christmas 2003 – Henderson, Tennessee: After raising three children of their own, David and Laurie Novak raised ten foster children before seventeen-month-old Lexi and her two-month-old brother, Robby, came to live with them the week before Christmas 2003. To the...
The French luxury steamship SS Ville du Havre sailed from New York for Paris on November 15, 1873 with 313 passengers and crew. At 2:00 am on November 22nd, while in the mid-Atlantic, the ship was almost broken in half when rammed broadside by the Scottish ironclad...
One hundred years before Elvis was the King of Rock & Roll, Aunt Fanny was the Queen of American Hymn Writers. She is arguably the most prolific songwriter of all time, having written over 8,000 hymns during her lifetime. Today, one hundred years after her death,...
Laura Story grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She loved to play the piano and in high school learned to play guitar and bass fiddle. Her talents earned her a musical scholarship at the University of South Carolina. After one year, she transferred across town to...
After only one semester at the University of Massachusetts, Roxanne Quimby told her father she was dropping out of school to follow her boyfriend, George, to the San Francisco Art Institute to pursue oil painting. Her father had expected her to get an MBA from the...
