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    Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing

    In my opinion, the best crime movie ever made is "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." It's a little bizarre, frankly, and not really as satisfying to sit and watch as a Sam Spade movie, a couple which are a little hard to follow, or even an old Charlie Chan movie, which don't take as much...
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    Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing

    I don't think the History Channel's target audience reads books, so why should they? I rather enjoyed such episodes of "In Search Of," although I didn't watch that many and I didn't watch them religiously. I thought "Unsolved Mysteries" with Robert Stack was just as good, though. In all cases...
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    Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing

    Oh, I think Clive Cussler is the one to settle the mystery. If her airplane is on the bottom of the ocean, he'll find it if he's interested. Of course, it's a big ocean and Cussler is 85 and those things might hurt his chances.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    We visited Trier when my daughter was living in Germany. Nice town. She was living in a little village not far to the south. My own name is an Anglicized form of the word Questenberg, a village in Saxony-Anhalt. Supposedly an ancestor went to England (becoming, I suppose, Anglo-Saxon) sometime...
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    Trucker-shorts! (shorter than Bermudas)

    When I was in southern Germany for a couple of years in the late 60s, it was nothing to see men wearing leather shorts. But it was usually like on a Saturday morning at home. They always looked ancient--the shorts, that is.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Most of my own ancestors came directly to Virginia from England, some of them having only lived there a generation or two since having emigrated there from Northern Germany. We shouldn't imagine there was only emigration to the Americas during the almost 300 years of colonial history in North...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    By the way, those of us who don't drink are free to use "Scotch" for other purposes, including anything connected to Scotland. And some of us are descended from Scotch-Irish settlers, although none will admit it. All those that I know who are deeply believe they are the original Americans and...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Two foreigners who invaded the United States sometime in the 1940s were Emilieu and Dolores Labonville, who established a business in New Hampshire, which is still going strong. They retail forestry and work equipment and manufacture some of it there in New Hampshire.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    So did they?
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Whitest state in the union? Well, I think it depends on who gets to say who's white (or white enough) and who isn't. In a related way of seeing things, my wife attended the high school (T.C. Williams) that a movie was made about when the schools in the city were integrated. The movie was...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    When the local liquor store is replaced by a Mexican restaurant, that would be something, not that I've ever known it to happen. It might be that we were never as homogeneous as we like to believe. Even when everyone is the same, we're still just a little different. In the working class...
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    The Best Yet....1950's

    Somehow, it almost feels like I skipped over a few decades, going straight from the 1960s to the present. But only when I'm on this forum. No doubt there are other forums dedicated to the 1970s or 1980s.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    You mean like in Hof Braus Haus? I've got a drawing of it on my bulletin board here at work, next to a photo of Huntz Hall and another of his son Rev. Gary Hall, plus one of Max Raabe. I need a bigger bulletin board.
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    The Best Yet....1950's

    I never knew anyone when I was growing up who ever expressed any sentimentality about the past in any way. In fact, one expression I heard more than once was "coming up the hard way." Incredibly enough, I've even heard it applied to Buck Owens.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    When we were in London (U.K.) a few years ago, we saw several policemen very heavily armed, even with submachine guns, something one rarely sees here (in person, that is).
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    Ask a question, get an answer

    How does one go about determining the size of a hat that is only available on-line? I have one idea how to do it but I'm still reluctant to take the plunge. I'm also afraid that the same size hat from different manufacturers will not fit the same.
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    Lost Cities!

    One of the early Tarzan movies, made as a serial, was about a lost city. It was titled Tarzan and the Green Goddess and also as The New Adventures of Tarzan. One of the titles was used for a regular length movie edited from the serial. One unusual feature was that it was directed by Edgar Rice...
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    Bush Jackets

    I'm about 6'1" and weight just at 180 on the scale at the loading dock at work, which I hope is accurate. I often notice that comments about surplus clothing on places like the Sportsman's Guide invariably say that shirts run small. Some do, to be sure, but mostly I think it's because military...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I suppose we all have different ideas of what fun is and isn't.
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    Bush Jackets

    When I was in college, I had a couple of ex-USAF bush jackets that I did wear but I always felt a little self-conscious wearing them among the bell-bottom, tie-dyed crowd. Still, I keep looking at them where I find them (never in person) but never make the leap of faith to actually buy one. But...

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