Monthly Archives: August 2023

Friends

August 3, 2023 | by CJ Woods III

This column first appeared in May 2022. “You have good friends,” my mother said to me, shortly before she died. She was in a hospice in Maryland, and I had traveled from St Louis Missouri to visit her. On that day, our reminiscences were specifically about one of my friends … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 4-10

August 3, 2023 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Times, Saturday, August 4, 1923: Thirteen guns at Ft. Benjamin Harrison boomed at sunrise today in honor of President Warren G. Harding who died two days ago. Throughout the day a gun fired at half hour intervals in salute to the dead President and at sunset tonight … Read More