President Roosevelt’s Favorite Dish
Miss Daisy Bonner, the President's cook while he was at the Little White House in Warm Springs, GA called this his favorite dish....
07
May
28
Apr
Glenn Miller and the Bedford Corn Exchange
The Bedford Corn Exchange was constructed in 1874 and was designed to be a concert venue. The most famous American musician to play at The Corn Exchange during the war was Glenn Miller, but he wasn’t the only celebrity to perform there. Bob Hope, Bing...
11
Mar
Memphis Belle
Last weekend the B-17 Memphis Belle came to town! This is not the original Memphis Belle, the B-17 piloted by Robert K. Morgan that was celebrated so highly in 1943 for finishing 25 missions. That plane is grounded and being lovingly restored in Dayton, Ohio....
09
Jan
GI Joe Comes Home
In May of 1945 a magazine titled “A Journal for Nurses” featured a story about the sick and injured soldiers who were being flown in ambulance planes back to the states. The name of the article was "GI Joe Comes Home."...
08
Aug
The President Theatre
The center of all entertainment in early Manchester was the Picture Show. Legend has it that Franklin Roosevelt was attending a high school graduation here when he received a phone call from New York asking him to seek the Democratic nomination for President. He accepted....
11
Jul
Manchester Memories
A series of articles for the Manchester Star-Mercury by Monroe F. "Buddy Stamps" titled "Manchester Memories" included several accounts of the comings and goings of President Franklin D. Roosevelt....
25
Jun
Honor Air Atlanta 2012
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of the sales associates and employees of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Atlanta the Roswell Rotary Club will hold its fifth Honor Air day trip to Washington DC on October 10th, 2012....
23
May
IWM Duxford
One of our favorite stops was Duxford at the Imperial War Museum, housed on the grounds of the former First and Second World War airfield....
05
May
Churchill War Rooms
Most of Churchill's War Room is just as it was back then. A few rooms have been faithfully recreated and all give a sense of simplicity and sparseness. They only contained what was needed to make critical decisions...
16
Apr
Captain Walter Irving Lawson
Walter Irving Lawson already had his pilot’s license when he joined the 99th Flying Pursuit Squadron, better known to all of us as the Tuskegee Airmen....