by Dollan Ellis | Feb 15, 2019 | Departments, What History Has Taught Me
As a kid, we lived on a small farm in eastern Kansas, where I literally had no playmates. My play consisted of doing little farm chores (gathering eggs, feeding chickens, etc.) and adventuring with my dog along a small creek in a dense woods on the backside of our...
by Alan Rockman | Feb 4, 2019 | Departments, What History Has Taught Me
Like many American children of the late 1950s, Alan Rockman spent his childhood in the not-exactly-Old West-town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with the obligatory cowboy suit, a Davy Crockett coonskin cap and a love for TV and movie Western heroes. Rockman’s family moved...
by Alan Rockman | Feb 4, 2019 | Departments, What History Has Taught Me
Like many American children of the late 1950s, Alan Rockman spent his childhood in the not-exactly-Old West-town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with the obligatory cowboy suit, a Davy Crockett coonskin cap and a love for TV and movie Western heroes. Rockman’s family moved...
by John Farkis | Dec 28, 2018 | Departments, What History Has Taught Me
John Farkis was born in Allen Park, Michigan, downriver from Detroit. After earning a business degree at Eastern Michigan University in 1972, he took a position as an accounting trainee in the automotive industry. Thirty-five years later, he retired as a general...
by John Boessenecker | Nov 22, 2018 | Departments, What History Has Taught Me
A native of San Francisco, California, John Boessenecker graduated from San Francisco State University with a history degree in 1975. After serving as a police officer in Mill Valley and San Mateo, he graduated from Hastings College of the Law and became a probate...