November 1996 – Ann Arbor, Michigan: Tom called his mother in California. He was ready to quit the University of Michigan football team. He had been seventh on the quarterback depth chart as a freshman and received a red-shirt. Now his sophomore season had been a big...
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...
June 1, 1965 – Falmouth, Massachusetts: The 13-foot sailboat, Tinkerbelle, quietly set sail for its destination 3,200 miles away in Falmouth, England. If successful, it would be the smallest sailboat to cross the Atlantic Ocean. At the helm was Robert Manry, a copy...
1956 – St. Louis, Missouri: Calvin Peete was in terrible pain. The 12-year-old had fallen out of a tree at his grandmother’s house and landed on his arm. The x-ray showed his left elbow was fractured in three places. The physician recommended surgery, but there was no...
1926 – Masonic Home and School, Ft. Worth, Texas: The Masonic Home Orphanage, which sat on 200 acres in east Ft. Worth, was started in 1900 for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of Free Masons. The facility, a lonely depressing place, was home for...
Pea Island, North Carolina, June 1878: Station No. 17, the Pea Island Life Saving Station, was created as one of 18 stations on the outer banks of North Carolina. Congress established the stations to help rescue passengers and cargo in the event of a shipwreck – a...
