When someone is described as a firecracker, it means that they are a little package full of energy that is ready to burst and light up the world...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: James D. O’Neil (1873-1951)James Demonet O’Neil, known by everyone as “Mr. Jim,” was born in Port Lavaca on September 14, 1873,...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: “DUBY’ JECKER (1922-2018) When people ask me, “What made you, a young college graduate from Ohio in 1980, choose Port Lavaca,...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Joseph Paul Petrisky was born Yozeph Petricska on December 5, 1913, in Nagy Luchka, a village then located in the northeastern...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: David John Willmann (1956-2017)I have always loved this time of year. The two holidays of the year when the chaos, stress, and...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (VETERAN’S DAY) Fernley Hilmer Damstrom (1923 – 1945)Fernley H. Damstrom was born on August 19, 1923 to parents Conrad J. and...

There are many wonderful things about living in small town versus a big city. People know one another, they are neighbors, friends, schoolmates,...

Inspiration often comes from unexpected places, in unexpected times, and often when we do not even know that we needed it. There are many people...

When researching someone from our past to introduce to you on Tuesdays, it is easy to fall into a rabbit hole finding others in the same family who...

Fortitude. In today’s world, the word fortitude, and its definition, seem lost in the pages of Webster’s dictionary. It is a word that most of us...

When you live and grow old in the same place you grew up, memories of things long gone can still be seen in your minds eye. Highway 87 is one of...

Louis John Foester was born on July 23, 1828 in Germany. He was orphaned at just nine years old and at 13 he began to learn and master the saddlery...

There are people throughout history whose names are known because of the changes they have made by making the world around them a better place to...

One of the beautiful things about history is the ability to put oneself in another time for a little while. Imagining what life was like both...