A New England Mother’s Thoughts on Memorial Day: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their … half-gaiters?” What?!
The air was thick with gunpowder and fear as I crouched behind the rough earthen walls we’d scrambled to build atop Breed’s Hill in these last hours of June 17, 1775, and the British were coming — red coats glinting like blood in the summer sun. General Israel Putnam...
I was in Rome the day the 2025 Papal Conclave convened. It raised thoughts of the “body of Christ.” Where Catholics are one piece of a global faith puzzle, who and what does God truly care about? These questions are not about individual grace or redemption. God says He will gather all His faithful children to Himself. I'm certain that He cares in that way, but ... what else does He care about?
Over my left shoulder is where Cardinal Robert Prevost showed himself to the world as the new pope, Leo XIV, less than 24 hours after this image was taken. I was just a dot in the midst of the gathered crowds and frenetic media scrum. There I was, just a dot amongst...
100 Years on the Road There is no more iconic or romantic section of cross country travel in the USA than the Mother Road, Route 66. Next year, 2026, marks 100 years since the establishment of that first interstate route.
Pontiac, Illinois, motoring along the Route 66 trail in his RAM 1500, Peter Rancie, Co-Founder of Veritas Chronicles has driven hundreds of thousands of miles across, and up and down, and around the USA since his first visit in 1985. Many of the highways, especially...
Route 66: The Long Road Out of Depression Into a Century of Optimism Established in 1926, the ensuing Great Depression meant the story of Route 66 became a road from and to despair for some, and a quirky, nostalgic trip for others, depending on era and circumstance.
Route 66 was a major highway of hope and despair, agony and ecstasy, during the Great Depression era. This is the US highway system as proclaimed in 1926 In later years, the quirky side of Route 66 became more evident. Route 66, established in 1926, played a crucial...
Route 66: An Unusual “Hero” of WW2 This famous US highway played a direct role in the domestic war effort by facilitating logistics, troop movements, and economic shifts from the US's industrial eastern hubs to the west and south-west.
B24’s in production. Many defense industries relocated westward, particularly aircraft manufacturing in California. Companies like Lockheed and Douglas relied on the paved Route 66 (paving was completed in 1938) to receive necessary components for airplane production....
