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Month: February 2021

The Grasshopper Cross

February 21, 2021
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Suddenly, Theo was in Dakota Territory, the southeastern corner of today’s South Dakota. The train had no sooner crossed over […]

My Mom, the Writer

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Posted by Patrick Simpson, Dec. 29, 2014.My Mom, Alma Ready, LOVED Arizona! In fact, she loved everything West. And she […]

Tara! Home!

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Wednesday, 12 October 1994: Remembering Scarlett’s “Tara” from Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, we planned to visit a place […]

American Indian Heritage Celebration 2013: We’re Still Here

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I was inspired to make this video after my visit to the 18th annual American Indian Heritage Celebration at the […]

Emma Lazarus

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Not long ago, I watched a PBS documentary about the Statue of Liberty. To PBS’s credit, the plaque at its base […]

Triangle Run/Walk for Autism 2013

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I volunteered over four years at the Frankie Lemmon School for special needs children. Why? I was inspired by my […]

Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Each of these “disabled celebrities”, along with countless others, were once thought of as “caged” by their disability. But they […]

Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes

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Saturday, 20 August 1994, Japan: Shortly after 1994’s Peace Day commemorations in Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, we happened upon a […]

The Paiute Princess

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09 March 2005, Wednesday: I was there when Sarah Winnemucca’s life-sized bronze statue was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol’s Rotunda. The only other Indian […]

Time Capsule found – and opened

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On Nov. 19, 1914, a handful of Nogales firefighters sent a small lead box full of letters, postcards and other […]

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