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Today’s History Lesson

In elementary school and high school, my favorite subject was History. So it should come as no surprise that when I am on vacation I am on the lookout for things I learned about in school as well as new things. In this post from 2014 I saw firsthand something that I had learned about […]

Politics Then Is Politics Now

A flashback for you today – one of my early posts from September 2014. One of the fun things about a vacation, for me anyway, is traveling to locations that can bring history alive in a new way. That was Dunwich, a village in Suffolk County on England’s North Sea Coast. I had never heard […]

Something Rotten in Parliament

One of the fun things about a vacation, for me anyway, is traveling to locations that can bring history alive in a new way, places like Dunwich, a village in Suffolk County on England’s North Sea Coast. I had never heard of the town before our English hosts, Peter and Charlotte, suggested we drive there, […]