On Christmas Eve 1967, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a Christmas sermon at his home congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King had been asked by the Canadian Broadcasting Company to deliver a series of five lectures for their Massey Lecture Series and the sermon was broadcast as the... Continue Reading →
In December 1965, NASA Mission Control experienced a few tense moments when Gemini astronauts Wally Schirra Jr and Tom Stafford called in a report of an unidentified flying object: “We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, up in a polar orbit. He’s in a very low trajectory traveling from... Continue Reading →
Last year at Christmas, I wrote a blog post entitled, “Christmas 1944” about Corrie Ten Boom. Corrie’s story remains one of my favorites and I have a collection of five books written by or about Corrie Ten Boom. I wrote my post last year about the experience Corrie had in the Ravensbruck infirmary at Christmas... Continue Reading →
Hello! Welcome to the Twelve Days of Blogmas 2021!! For the next 12 days, I will be posting a Christmas-themed blog post daily leading up to Christmas Day. I have been researching little known or inspirational stories about the holiday season and I am excited to be able to share some of the stories I’ve... Continue Reading →
This past weekend, my husband and I had the opportunity to attend a screening of To Kill A Mockingbird at our community theater, and afterward there was a Q&A with Mary Badham who played Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout, in the movie. Leading up to this exciting opportunity, I decided to re-read To... Continue Reading →
Back in 1994, TLC told us to not go chasing waterfalls and to “stick to the rivers and the lakes” that we’re used to. And this past weekend, my husband and I tried to do like they said and just stick to a lake that we are “used to” and have fished numerous times, but... Continue Reading →
This past weekend I went on a ranger led hike at one of my local Tennessee State Parks. And as I usually do when in the presence of someone who has studied extensively more about the natural world than I have, I learned several new things that I haven’t managed to pick up yet in... Continue Reading →
As my Iris blooms fade, we have some gorgeous Stargazer Lilies beginning to bloom. These lilies have been in my flower beds the last few years despite my best efforts to kill them. I originally had the lilies in a couple of pots and that first fall after their foliage died, I just left the... Continue Reading →
Last fall, I tried to venture out to my local state park more often and I have continued to regularly visit this year for hikes. But I have tweaked my hiking necessities a bit since those earlier adventures last fall. I broke down and bought myself a hiking stick. You see, when my husband and... Continue Reading →
Happy Derby Day! After the strangeness of last year, the race being run in September and all the triple crown races being run out of order, it is nice that the Derby has returned where it belongs to the first Saturday in May. There is just something about springtime that goes hand in hand with... Continue Reading →
Rachel F. Jean 