Archive for August, 2010

Laura Ingalls Wilder was born Laura Elizabeth Ingalls near Pepin Wisconsin on February 7, 1867, deep in the “Big Woods”. She is most known for her Little House on the Prairie books. Anyone who grew up in the 1970s spent untold hours on the frontier of her youth with the Ingalls family, living with “Half […]


James A Garfield was the 20th President of the United States of America. Born in Moreland Hills, Ohio in a small log cabin, Garfield enlisted in the army at the start of the civil war, rose to the rank of Major General, served as an Ohio State Senator, served in the House of Representatives, and […]