Remembering Dick Butkus
The passing of Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus on Oct. 5 left me deeply
history
Sept. 2, 1838
Sept. 2, 1838. A black coachman, a freeman named Isaac Rolls, stashes a duffel bag in the rear of a train at the Baltimore station. Under a cloak of impending darkness, a twenty-year-old in a black sailor’s uniform waits in the weeds. He looks down and pulls a weed, pinching off a piece of the pale root…
“De white man, dey won’t harm you if you carry dis root.”
3 Days in a Ghost Town
The year is 1891. Under the watchful eyes of emigrants from French Canada and England
The Ute Prayer Trees
We all are born from the earthWe live our lives walking on the earthWe die
Camping with Ghosts of America’s Past
The desert can be an inhospitable place. Moab, Utah, is like that. It can be
Lovers of Words Unite
I watched a movie tonight that I selected from the many worthy titles on Kanopy,
The Summer White House
Colorado has earned the reputation as the land of big mountains, big wilderness, big rivers