Arbor Day Turns 150! – Podcast #171 Published on April 28, 2022 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Podcast Arbor Day is 150 years old! Learn the origins of the day, plus how one small upstate New York town continues the annual celebration.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1958: Christmases Have Merry Christmas Published on December 24, 2021 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits The Christmases got together in 1958 to celebrate Christmas. They had to deal with prank calls from people making fun of their last name.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1953: Absent-Minded Santa Claus Published on December 23, 2021 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits Sometimes Santa needs to be more focused on the job that he has chosen to do...Click to Read More...
How To Fill A Giant Christmas Stocking? Published on December 22, 2021 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits In 1965, radio station WDGY held a contest for the largest Christmas stocking. They were not prepared for what was submitted.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1949: Ontario Boy Given Snake by Museum Published on December 21, 2021 Posted in: Animals & Pets, Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits A couple from Ontario drove 125 miles so that their son could purchase a snake, only to find out that the museum had none for sale. Would his heart be broken for Christmas?Click to Read More...
Reindeer Nips Boy’s Finger Published on December 20, 2021 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits In 1954, 2-year-old Richard Ferris decided to let a reindeer take a lick from his lollipop. That was a mistake...Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1948: Early Greeting Might Be Said in Bad Taste Published on December 19, 2021 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits Imagine arriving home to find your bathtub filled with gelatin. That happened to Mr. & Mrs. Jack Halstead.Click to Read More...
A Very Unusual Christmas Tree Published on December 17, 2021 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits Back in 1900, students in the University of Pennsylvania’s biology department presented their professors with an unusually decorated Christmas tree.Click to Read More...
Retrocast #6 – Podcast #162 Published on December 15, 2021 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Podcast, Retrocasts A reindeer that bit a boy’s finger, a lawsuit over the world’s largest Christmas stocking, an absent-minded Santa Claus, a Santa caught with his pants down, the first Christmas film ever made, and much more!Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1937: Santa Claus Has Trouble Getting Down This Chimney Published on December 14, 2021 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits It was every child's fear: Santa Claus got stuck in a San Antonio, TX chimney. Would he be able to deliver his gifts?Click to Read More...
Tom McGee’s Back on the Chain Gang – Podcast #161 Published on November 30, 2021 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Holidays & Celebrations, Podcast Tom McGee wanted nothing more for Christmas than to be able to spend time caring for his hogs. The only catch was that he needed to commit a crime and hope that a judge would sentence him to time on one of Georgia’s infamous chain gangs.Click to Read More...
Kids Keep Santa From Getting a Ticket Published on December 28, 2020 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits Just what happens when Santa Claus is pulled over for speeding? This story from 1965 just may have the answer.Click to Read More...
Santa Stuck in Chimney Published on December 27, 2020 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits Everyone knows that Santa comes down the chimney to deliver his gifts. Sometimes he gets stuck...Click to Read More...
Gift of 4-Tons of Fertilizer Published on December 24, 2020 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Tidbits Back in 1945, Norval H. Milliken received a very unusual Christmas gift: 4-tons of manure. It took some detective work to figure out who sent it.Click to Read More...
A Grateful Mother – Podcast #143 Published on December 21, 2020 Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Money & Financial, Podcast The heartwarming true story from the 1950s of a secret Santa and the generous Christmas gifts that he gave to Helen Arnold's family in Akron, Ohio.Click to Read More...
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