by admin | Nov 14, 2015 | History
I’m live blogging from the food court in Strawberry Square in Harrisburg PA. There are some people adding a bit of color to a fairly ordinary food court with a Subway, Arbies and Taco Bell among others. They are wearing civil war uniforms with the ladies in...
by admin | Nov 13, 2015 | History
So here I am at the Hilton in Harrisburg PA for my absolutely, positively final Civil War Sesquicentennial event – The 2015 USCT Grand Review. I started late doing Antietam on my own. My covivant came with me to Chancellorsville. We did special hike with the...
by admin | Oct 28, 2015 | History, Tax
This post was originally published on Forbes Oct 28, 2015 Unless, like a sensible person, you have been shielding yourself from learning about developments in the interminable, never-ending IRS scandal, now on Day 902 by Tax Prof count, you are aware that impeachment...
by admin | Oct 27, 2015 | History
I thought I was done with Civil War Sesquicentennial events after the Grand Review in May. It turns out that there is one more event, I just have to attend. Another Grand Review – this one in Harrisburg. The original Grand Review (although not its...
by admin | Oct 14, 2015 | Books, History
I really like memoirs and biographies. There are three that I just finished. I would recommend two of them as really good reads. The Yeoman Wake of The Wahoo by Forest J. Serling is a submarine memoir, something that I am a real sucker for. It differs from most...
by admin | Aug 6, 2015 | Guest Post, History
Back in June I had a guest post from Georg Snatzke about his experience of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Georg is from Bavaria, He dedicated his vacatons from 2011 till 2015 to Sesquicentennial real time events (Being at the exact spot exactly 150 years after key...
