A short Uber ride in Birmingham provided both the means to the National Civil Rights Monument and the meaning such places exist. “Do you know where we could take a civil rights walking tour?” my mom asked William, our driver. “You’d have to go to Montgomery for that,” he said while he zipped us along [...]
Tag: history
Root vegetables
The pungent package arrived without a return address, but I knew exactly where it came from. Nick Asashon has been sending me miner's garlic every year since 2016, when he mailed me the first batch and connected me to Colver, Pennsylvania, a little mining town I used to love to visit, but haven't seen since [...]
You’re a Grand old Canyon
Conveniently located right between me and my oldest daughter, the Grand Canyon stands as both a perfect meeting point for two people who really, really needed to see each other and an age-old monument to Mother Nature's majesty. I mean, really! We drove up on a brisk morning a few weeks ago and initially had [...]
An Excellent Aircraft Adventure
That confounding Wisconsin Spring spilled dense fog all over the runways Saturday morning and torpedoed our plans for a Young Eagle Flight, but we still had an excellent adventure. That's how cool EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, is. First, we accidentally poked our heads into the maintenance hangar and, instead of being sternly rebuked for [...]
My grandfather’s store
My grandfather, Bob Fey, spent his entire professional career working at the same place -- the sweet and eponymous Fey's Supermarket. Located on the corner of Powers and Borden street in Cincinnati (until a state highway rolled through, the government claimed imminent domain and the store moved across the street) Fey's Supermarket served as a [...]