What She Cannot Live Without

Doris Travis’s talent brought her to Broadway twice.  The first time she was 14.  Doris did something no other 14-year-old  had ever done.  She danced her way into one of the most popular shows in New York City.  It took her more than twenty...

Dancing into Memory

 In Radio City Music Hall, the years do not flow back into the past.  They gather invisibly around you.  Each Christmas the Rockettes dance into our memories.  Doris Carie was a Rockette at 17, the youngest girl in the line.  They lived in the...

TV’s Birthplace

Television did not begin in New York or Los Angeles.  It was the brainchild of a fourteen-year-old farm boy, the vision of a fellow with a funny name:  Philo T. Farnsworth.  Philo was plowing a field on the family farm near Rigby, Idaho, day dreaming...

Clown Clergy

The new methodist minister in Sparta, Georgia, was a guy with a red nose. No, not from drinking or sunburn. Folks thought they were hiring the Reverend Bill Matthews.  What they got was Bags the clown.  Share...

The REAL Johnny Appleseed

Paul Rokich grew up in the old American Smelter camp in Tooerle, Utah.   Copper lay under the Oquirrh Mountains.  To get it, workers nearly killed the soil.  The Oquirrh’s were so polluted, experts told Rokich they could not be saved.  One...