The word ‘History’ is defined at Dictionary.com as: A continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account: chronicle.” It is the account of past events that unveil what has transpired up until now, ‘now’ being defined as “at the present time […]
42nd Year Anniversary of The White Rock Riot
The year was 1977. Jimmy Carter was the sitting president of the United States. It was the year the original Star Wars movie opened in theaters, a film that was soon to change the landscape of celluloid entertainment forever. The first Apple II computers went on sale to the public, the harbingers of a technical […]
Paradise Lost
Civilization has its inherent problems. With the responsibility of providing food, water, lodging, electricity, and social services for hundreds of thousands of individuals who inhabit any large metropolis, come the liabilities of controlling and maintaining such a delicate infrastructure. With all those moving parts, something somewhere at some point is going to break. This last […]
New Year, New Fear
First of all, I’d like to take a moment to wish everyone a belated happy new year. Yes, it’s a little lack-lustered and trite sounding after so many exciting points of reference that have already eclipsed the news headlines since Ryan Seacrest brought in 2018 a scant 8 days ago. From the latest political atrocity […]
Countdown To Halloween 2017
So, as a bit of an update, I’ve been living for the past year in the middle of the M Streets on Lower Greeville Avenue in a building called The Bella Villa Apartments located at 5506 Miller Avenue. Apparently, the building was built in 1927 and is believed to be one of if not the […]