York Fair time again—where did the year go? Time again to have a Bury’s hamburger at one of the two or more stands that claim they make the real thing. I think they are all run by relatives of the original Bury brothers, so I am guessing that they can
There is a quote that goes something like “Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while,” meaning that if you keep rooting around you might come up with something. Every chance I get the past few years, I have been hitching a ride to the National Archives
Walter Ziegler was captured by the Germans when his B-17 was shot down near Vienna on February 13, 1945. He was a prisoner of war for two and a half months. That might seem like a relatively short time as we go about our daily lives, but it must be
In the early part of the 20th century, school children usually gathered outside so that a photographer could get a good group photo. I think of individual photos of each student coming later, but my cousin, Nancy Hedrick, shared this photo made up of individual portraits of Brogue students in
I returned home to York a few days ago from a two-week vacation to find that someone I admired very much had passed away.