By Lois Requist As I look at a photo I have in my hand, I turn it over and on the back is written Christmas, December 25, 1900, followed by a list of some the nine people standing outside in front of a building with two pillars forming a porch. In black and white, of […]
William S. Emes: In tribute to Lieutenant Col. Joseph Bruggman, a Benicia resident
By William S. Emes, Jr. Special to the Herald As we know, on Aug. 6, 1945 at 8:15 – 43 seconds a.m. local time, an atomic bomb was detonated in the atmosphere as a weapon. Hiroshima, a city in the Imperial Nation of Japan, was destroyed at the command of an American president. In truth, […]
Think, Dream, Play: Oddball goes mainstream?
OK. I’M AN ANOMALY. It probably goes back to seventh grade. I was the only girl in my gym class with a green romper. Oh yes, I’m in the romper set. Back in the Pleistocene Era, junior high school was comprised of seventh, eighth and ninth grades. And seventh grade constituted a giant step out […]