THE LONE HERALD John Adams Lives His Medieval Art By Warren D. Jorgensen As the sun rises over the Chesapeake Bay, John Adams sits in his studio behind his house in Annapolis, Md. The air conditioner hums softly and the blues from his sound system fill the air as he bends over his bench over […]
Eagles Return to Nest in The Delaware Water Gap
EAGLES COME HOME TO NEST By Warren D. Jorgensen “Wow! Here comes the dance!” Dan Orey whispered, looking skyward. Thirteen heads turned skyward. Binoculars came up. “Do you see any white?” another voice asked. “No. Both brown.” A third answered. Twenty-five hundred feet above the Upper Delaware Wild […]
Harold Burnham Carries on The Essex Boat Building Tradition
HAROLD BURNHAM CARRIES ON A SHIP BUILDING TRADITION By Warren D. Jorgensen When Harold Burnham lays the keel for one of his hand-crafted wooden boats in the boatyard he has owned since 1995, He is carrying on a family tradition that dates back to 1819. His boatyard is on land where ancestor Oliver Burnham operated […]
The Cradle of Aviation Lives On
THE CRADLE OF AVIATION LIVES ON By Warren D. Jorgensen Emil “Ace” Feroldi and Hank Anholzer were infants when Charles Lindberg bought and flew is 1918 Curtiss JN4 “Jenny” in his short-lived barnstorming career. They were in elementary school when he went on to greater things in 1927. In 1973, they began restoring […]
AN ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN SOJOURN
AN ADIRONDACK SOJOURN Six Million Ares and only Two Wheels The Adirondack Mountains comprise six million square acres of nothingness, and this is as it should be. But in this nothingness is so much to see and do that you will wear out many sets of tires before you see it all. Susan and I took […]
The FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR ALL OVER AGAIN
RE-ENACTORS FIGHT THE FIRST WORLD WAR AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN. In 1755 Europe was engulfed in what many consider the real First World War, pitting Britain and France and their respective allies for world dominance extending from the Eastern European plains to the wilderness of the North American continent. New York would play a […]
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