Sitting at home, hearing all the fireworks around me blasting off like thunder and gunshots echoing over the hollow, I can't help but remember the Revolutionary War. This is not the first 4th of July I've sat and listened to this echo around me, and thought about how scared the people in the East must have been during the Revolutionary War. Battles could be heard in the woods and the towns surrounding their homes, and they never knew what could be around the corner that might

Want to hear a funny? I started watching one of the best classical movies (Turner Classic Movies: TCM CLASSIC MOVIES), I Know Where I'm Going. It is a fantastic movie set during WWII about a young woman who "knows where" she is going. She is determined to have the best things in life, even if it means marrying a man close to her father's age. Unfortunately, something unforeseen stops her from reaching the last point of her goal, the weather! During an action-packed scene wher

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” John Wayne BatJac Productions 1960 The Alamo Something triggered last night, where I decided to watch John Wayne's The Alamo. I heard that John Wayne spent 14 years planning, writing, and preparing for this movie, and how he would actually construct it. He was not the headliner star but directed and produced it under BatJac Productions, his own company. According to the internet, John Wayne was fascinated by the st