Benjamin Franklin’s Resolutions

    New Year resolutions are nearly as old as recorded history, harkening back to the ancient Babylonians more than 4000 years ago.  What has changed is the date of the new year itself. In those earlier times, the spring planting season was considered the beginning of...

Dateline: December 23, 1783

    After nearly eight years of service as Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, General George Washington resigned his commission at a ceremony at the Maryland State House in Annapolis where the Continental Congress was meeting.     Following a farewell dinner...

Who Was America’s REAL First Founding Father?

      George Washington is often called the “Father of our country.” James Madison earned the title of “Father of the Constitution.” But is there such a person as the “First Founder?”  Is there someone who could actually deserve to be called the “First Founder”...

Do Eight-Hundred-Year-Old Documents Still Matter?

   One of our social media posts and 250 Seconds highlighted the incredible historic parallels between the Barons revolt against King John in 1215 which resulted in the Magna Carta and the rebellion against King George III in 1776 which culminated in the Declaration...

Coincidence or Divine Providence? You Decide

      If you were to type “probabilities of coincidences” in your search engine on your computer and sift through more than twenty pages of links to stories about “coincidences,” you won’t find a quick and clear definition.  The subject lines included titles such as...