Wife of Union General Ulysses S. Grant Born at White Haven Plantation west of St. Louis. Missouri, Julia Dent was the daughter of Colonel Frederick Dent, a slaveholding planter and merchant. She grew up there in a typically Southern atmosphere. Julia, the fifth of seven children and the first girl, ...

Our God is an Awesome God! By Jen Crager Growing up and even now, I would describe myself as a “nature” girl. My parents have a cabin along the “Mighty” Muskingum River in Southeastern Ohio. When I was young, we spent many a day enjoying the nature that surrounded us. We love...

Filed under: Arts and Culture, Hiking, Learning, Skiing, Festivals and Events, Stories, Ecotourism, Budget Travel, Travel Deals When I think of Maine, I think of leaping off barnacle covered rocks into the ocean and eating clams dipped in butter in Ogunquit like I did one summer when I went there to...

Here is a glimpse of some of my mother's family (quoted sections are from the Banta Genealogy): Henry D. Banta was born January 20, 1785 to Daniel “Captain Dan� Banta and Anna Shuck Durie, famous widow of Peter Durie. Peter was killed during an Indian attack in Kentucky, along with Anna’s ...

Sometime in the last two months, Glasslands got a face lift. What was for years a ramshackle space that smelled of stale Colt 45 and tempura paint has become a legit venue. Wood paneling and trim now covers the loft area. The grimy old couches underneath have been replaced by what looks like church ...

As part of our ongoing NOLA Changemakers interview series we talked to Jon Guidroz, Director of Project Development at Free Flow Power, about his clean energy project and the unique spirit of NOLA. Can you tell us a little about what Free Flow Power does? Free Flow Power Corporation was founded to p...

Zen Tricksters Acoustic Cafe Bridgeport, CT 6-27-07 w/ special guests David Gans "Acoustic Show" SBD>pro tools (record/track)>wav>CD>EAC>wav>FLAC16 "Thank you Cotter for making me the CDS" Set 1 1. Been All Around This World 2. Race Is On 3. Smoke, Smoke, Smoke ...

The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future by Catherine Tumber Boston Review (March / April 2009) Growing up in a small town, I regularly took bus trips with my mom and little sister into "the city": Syracuse. Like most middle-class families in the 1960s, we had only one car, which my dad ...

As I’ve noted before, there’s a good reason WHY I don’t read the Stinky, a/k/a the floundering Philadelphia Inquirer: since taking over as publisher, Brian Tierney has presided over what Daniel U-A rightly identifies as “the Right-Wing Hackifying of the Inquirer Op-Ed Pages&#...

[This was shared with the people of Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Logan, Ohio during worship this morning.] Mark 1:9-15 One of the factory jobs I worked as a young man was on the DMS 350 production line at Lennox Industries in Columbus. We made the largest whole building air conditioning and heat...