by David Krell | Nov 4, 2013 | David Krell
In 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) evolved from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA’s mission consisted of beating the Russians in the Space Race. No easy task, this. The year prior to NASA’s...
by David Krell | Sep 22, 2013 | David Krell
Fifty years ago this week, America’s love affair with trains began a weekly trek of climbing aboard the Hooterville Cannonball train and rolling down the tracks to the junction. Petticoat Junction. Paul Henning created Petticoat Junction along with The Beverly...
by David Krell | Aug 4, 2013 | David Krell
Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson changed baseball when the former signed the latter to a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. They broke organized baseball’s color line that was never codified but seemingly understood Earlier this year, the movie...
by David Krell | Jul 4, 2013 | David Krell
The Lone Ranger represents the American ideals of justice, strength, and courage. His ruggedness, a staple of the hero prototype in American westerns, parallels John Wayne’s film characters, James Arness’ Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke, and the Cartwright boys...
by David Krell | Jul 2, 2013 | David Krell
As dawn anticipated breaking over southern California on the morning of August 30, 1979, a man two weeks shy of his sixty-fifth birthday covered his thinning hair with a cowboy hat. Besides the hairline, age was not a serious opponent. He was still fit and trim with...
