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I never knew my Finnish grandfather, who immigrated to the upper Michigan peninsula in search of a better life. Like so many Finns at the time, he found work in a Michigan copper mine, but the work dried up. He died long before I was born. At least that was what my mother always told me. ...more
July 27, 2008
Sixty years ago this month, the top story in campaign year 1948 was not the big poll lead of Republican nominee Thomas Dewey or the plight of President Harry Truman. It was the Berlin Airlift. ...more
July 23, 2008
"Skeletons at the Feast," by Chris Bohjalian (Shaye Areheart, $25) ...more
July 13, 2008
Randy Ludacer's letter to Highlands Today, Aug. 25, gives good coverage on the failures and follies that cost us 58,000 men in Vietnam. ...more
September 6, 2007
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