THE INVENTION OF BASKETBALL             In 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts at a YMCA school a young physical education teacher named James Naismith found himself frustrated during the winter months because there was no game to play with his students indoors. He spent a lot of time speculating about how to overcome this deficiency but all…

THE “NEW DEAL” FROM FDR      From the family point of view FDR was the “Cat’s Pajamas”. I was born in 1933 and so Roosevelt’s New Deal and I sort of came in together :O). My Grand Dad was elected City Tresure of our town (Bellingham, WA.) in 1932 and was re-elected three times. We…