By Judith Present The Great Depression 1929-1939 was the worst economic downturn in modern history. The preceding decade known as the...

by Judith Present It is very clear the 50s and 60s differed from each other; the 1950s were more conservative and the 1960s were more...

By Judith Present There are lots of things people can steal — tech equipment, famous paintings, antiques, even money, but why...

By Judith Present The eyewitness accounts of the Titanic disaster disagreed as to what the band was playing as the ship went under....

By Judith Present We tend to be living in despair about what’s going to happen to our country. But despair is really a state of mind...

By Judith Present In 1959 a doll named "Barbie" sprang onto the American scene, wearing a black-and-white striped bathing suit, with...

By Judith Present The one thing we all bring to the world is our face; we tell others who we are with our facial expressions....

By Judith Present American settlers started dry good stores where one would stand on a line waiting their turn to tell the proprietor...

By Judith Present Turkeys are native to North and Central America and have been around for approximately ten million years. They even...

By Judith Present Over the years so much has been written about local character Fanny Read. Was this a Hancock scandal, was it simply...

By Judith Present In the mid-19th century in Macon, Georgia, a man and woman fell in love and got married and, as many young couples...

By Judith Present It appears that men, after going out west, established their own rules for women. They felt women were not as smart...

By Judith Present I have stopped watching the news and reading the news (except for the Hancock Herald). I can hardly relate to it,...

By Judith Present What makes some people do miraculous things while others become ne’er-do-wells? They might both have the same...

By Judith Present We have all heard stories of murders that could have been stopped if only the police listened to the victim, which...

By Judith Present Sometimes you meet a person you become enamored with. The things they do impress you, their morality impresses you...

By Judith Present The story of Dreamland begins in the summer of 1903, just a few months after Luna Park opened along Surf Avenue in...

By Judith Present Everyone has a prank joker in their family. I know I have one in mine, my husband. He has been playing practical...

By Judith Present January 29 is the birthday of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), the fiery advocate of America’s revolution whose importance...

By Judith Present When I was a little girl we had a party-line phone, which we shared with another family. Of course now that most...

By Judith Present The other day, one of my cats crept up to my pillow and laid beside me; his purr was so loud I couldn’t sleep…But...

By Judith Present When I was a little girl, a new school was just being built and it was taking four year olds for kindergarten, and...

By Judith Present Yes, there is a real Transylvania. It was once part of Hungary, but became part of Romania in 1918. And Bram...

By Judith Present The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the...

By Judith Present Even though most women couldn’t vote in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries they still were responsible...

By Judith Present After the revolutionary war those who had humbly and dutifully stood watch at Bunker Hill and Valley Forge found...

By Judith Present "Today the locomotive has overcome mountain steeps and walked over the tops of forest trees." U.S. Senator Daniel...

By Judith Present No TV show had more influence on the state of American Science Fiction than the “Twilight Zone,” and each episode...

By Judith Present Tom Quick was the first white child born in the Delaware Valley, where the present town of Milford PA are. His...