At the start of summer 1931, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad (shortened to just The Santa Fe in brochures by then) ran five daily trains between Chicago, through Kansas City, and into...
In the spring of 1919, news out of the Marconi Company—the folks who invented radio, or “wireless telegraph” in the previous decades—was that they were working on a new type of wireless telephone that...
One of the biggest legends told in the Santa Fe area is that of the “miraculous spiral staircase” ascending to the choir loft at the Loretto Chapel. The legend that began in the early...
I have long been a fan of Futurology, a term that to me encompasses the collection and examination of writings, mixed-media, and other works of art that depict how life will be in the...
In reading this day’s Santa Fe New Mexican from 100 years ago (25 May 1920), I came across this horrible sounding story in which two young boys, ages 8 and 6, were sent from...
History / Postcard Story / Travel
by David · Published February 23, 2020 · Last modified March 13, 2022
In September of 1945, Mrs. Bernice S. (née Shonely) Howard (b. 30 Aug 1906, Hiawatha, KS; d. 2 Mar 1999, Racine, WI) was traveling through Kansas City, Missouri, where she stayed at the Hotel...
One day in late spring of 1928, fourteen-year-old high school sophomore Boyd Manson Jones decided he was going to ride his horse from his home outside Gallup, New Mexico, all the way to Washington,...
Genealogy / History / Postcard Story
by David · Published May 12, 2019 · Last modified March 13, 2022
It has been quite some time since I published one of my Postcard Stories. The reason is that I came across a postcard whose author is connected to a convoluted web of interesting characters....
I have always liked Graham Nash’s song, Cathedral, and it is hard not to hum it when strolling through the Santa Fe national cemetery while taking gravestone photos for people. I’m always scanning others...
With Sears now in decline and fading fast it is interesting to look back at how this mighty giant was once a major threat to established brick and mortar stores at its founding. Richard...
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