Hanging with Lefty Bryant and the Black Panthers
I was a Panther in high school because that was our school’s mascot. But that’s not what this is about. In early 1960s the nightly news brought reports of freedom rides, sit ins, boycotts, marches, civil rights demonstrations, and voter registration. In high aschool I thought if I had been a year or two older,…
The Life of John Hennessy (1883-1962)
Beginnings In the Book of Hebrews it’s mentioned that we are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses. Who are these witnesses and what do they do? I imagine them as angels and ancestors. The angels are mostly God’s messengers. As for ancestors, I think they belong to us and are in the cloud of witnesses…
Luck of the Irish
Spring was always time to plant the garden in the home of my parents. My father said that having food from garden was necessary during the Great Depression of the 1930s. His father was cut to only occational work at the steel mill in Canton, Ohio, and they needed the garden to have enough to…