Category: A moment in time

Beginning on page 52 of Harry Hurt III’s Lost Tycoon we are told of an “afternoon in late October” of 1989 when Donald Trump (of whom you may have heard) was taken via limousine to 45 East Eighty-fifth Street in New York City [1], then “the address of the Reed Center for plastic surgery”, to…

President Gerald R. Ford, on the bicentennial of the United States’ founding, terminated Executive Order 9066 originally signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 establishing ten “relocation centers” for Nikkei living in America, calling upon the American people to promise “we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to…

The year, 2021. The week, exactly one year after the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as President of the United States of America. The week before he was inaugurated comprises, by the published record, the largest mass death event (from a single cause) in United States history thus far, with approximately 4,170 – 4,406…

There is a certain look one can catch in the eyes of those performing scientific experiments. If one is lucky enough to see it, I submit that moment is a high drama comprising at least five distinct acts: preparation, anticipation, (un)expectation, revelation, and understanding. Having had the opportunity to teach my fair share of youngsters…

Thirty-five thousand sixty-four days after The Rev. Cartwright opened the proceedings at Rhea County Court House one Friday morning with a prayer (“Oh, God, our divine Father, we recognize Thee as the Supreme Ruler of the universe, in whose hands are the lives and destinies of all men”), I began reading “A WORD-FOR-WORD REPORT” of the State…

About three dozen people walked from the steps of Hatcher Graduate Library through downtown Ann Arbor and back to the Diag on March 13 to call attention to systemic racism in policing and the mattering of black lives. The march began at about 2:45 p.m. local time. The participants walked through E. William St. up…