THE LITTLE BOOK WITH A BIG LEGEND
MRS. FIELDS MUST HAVE SERVED A FEW COOKIES

John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Annie Fields I recently acquired a biography of James T. Fields, the Boston publisher who printed the works of most of America’s great writers of the 19th Century. The fly-leaf of the book states that his second wife, Annie Adams Fields, was Boston’s greatest hostess…
“OLD IRONSIDES” A REBEL SHIP? – May 8, 1861
BIRTH OF GAS TURBINE INVENTOR – April 20, 1860

Charles Gordon Curtis (1860-1953) Charles Curtis crosses our path again, but this is not the Native American Vice President I wrote about last month. This time, it’s Charles Gordon Curtis, who must have been camera-shy, for I find only a couple of photographs of him available online. Charles Gordon Curtis…
Charlie Grant (1923-2012), WWII Veteran, Musician
US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEEERS ESTABLISHED (2nd Time) – March 16, 1802
NATIVE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT INAUGURATED – March 4, 1929

Charles Curtis (1860-1939) On March 4, 1929, a Native American was inaugurated as Vice President of the United States. Charles Curtis served one term with President Herbert Hoover. Curtis was born on January 25, 1860, in North Topeka, in what was then the Kansas Territory. His mother was three-quarters Native…
ANOTHER DELAY
I’m back again, finally, after a promise of more regular posts. I actually have something of an excuse this time, though, which might qualify as valid. (If it doesn’t, well, that’s too bad. It’s the only one I have.) I was hired to do five months of at-home work, but…