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By Brad Reynolds Clyde Thomas Jr. was never interested in Facebook. He’s the kind of guy that prefers books to the internet. He likes his conversations face-to-face, not through words on a [...]

By Brad Reynolds In the Sixties, the average American household had one TV, the standard screen was 21 inches, and only three channels were available (CBS, NBC, and ABC). Much of the programming [...]

The 1960s were a decade of scientific ambition. Some of those ambitions—like computer development and the space program—led to enormous scientific achievements. Others decidedly did not. One [...]

You might be surprised to find that the earliest form of the sleigh bell dates back to the Roman Empire. In these days, a single bell (usually gold or silver) would be fixed to a warhorse as a [...]

An Acoma Legend) Blue Corn Maiden was the prettiest of the corn maiden sisters. The Pueblo People loved her very much, and loved the delicious blue corn that she gave them all year long. Not only [...]

Author Unknown Bobby was getting cold sitting out in his back yard in the snow. Bobby didn’t wear boots; he didn’t like them and anyway he didn’t own any. The thin sneakers he wore had a few [...]

By Marlene Affeld There is fresh snow on the high mountain ridges, a bone chilling wind from the west rattles the tamarack, scattering golden needles across the forest floor. Tendrils of silver [...]

(A Narragansett Legend) Long in the way time past time, rabbits had very short ears. They had very long tails. They had long, straight arms and long, straight legs. Very different than the way [...]

By Marlene Affeld People who have spent some time in Montana tell eerie tales of the warm winter winds. Have you ever experienced a chinook? If so, you surely remember the sudden change in the [...]

Author Unknown It was before Christmas, and the tree was all trimmed with popcorn and silver nuts and pretty glass balls and little wooden toys, and stood safely out of sight in a room where the [...]