by Kevin Banet | Jul 4, 2025 | History, Holidays
Old age didn’t stop Benjamin Franklin. (AI image) In the movie National Treasure, treasure-seeker Nicholas Cage discovers a pair of antique spectacles with multiple lenses—clearly designed, we’re told, by Benjamin Franklin. When used to peer at the back of the...
by Associate Editor | Jul 2, 2025 | History, Holidays, Home Care, Senior stories
This article was written by a guest contributor, John Trompeter, the owner/operator of ComForCare of Wheaton, IL. One of the perks of my work in home care is to get a close-up view of our clients’ lives, which are oftentimes very interesting. I experienced one man’s...
by Kevin Banet | Oct 5, 2023 | 60's Boy, History, nursing homes
Shrapnel in his chest The large man lay in his nursing home bed while I moved him about. As an orderly, I was hired because the home needed a man to work with the heavier patients. “I fought in the Battle of the Marne,” the man said. “I’ve still got shrapnel in my...
by Kevin Banet | Apr 27, 2023 | History
Today we tend to think of our lives as something static, unrelated to the past or to the future. But years ago, the great orator Cicero quoted the poet Statius, “He plants his trees to serve a race to come.” Cicero goes on to say that a farmer, however old, if he were...
by Kevin Banet | Apr 18, 2023 | History
Is it true that as a person gets older, they get interested in older things? Old buildings, old photographs, and old books? On my bookshelf is an 1899 copy of Brumbaugh’s Standard Reader. The book’s pages are yellow and the front pages are filled with the...
