Hillary Clinton Wins Iowa Caucus

In celebration of the official announcement yesterday of Hillary Clinton's (albeit slim) victory in the Iowa Caucus, I am posting my Bill Clinton page.  Click the photo below to discover the significance of this window where Hillary and I are posing:

Iowa Caucus Day 2016

I haven't updated this blog in a while, but this crazy presidential election season has put me in the mood again.  In celebration of today's Iowa caucuses, I have added new photos to the page of the only president who was born in Iowa.  Click the photo below to visit that page and find out who he was...

Presidential Libraries

I just completed a swing through Arkansas and Texas with my sister and her family (like me, my nephew is also a presidential history buff).  During this trip I visited three presidential libraries that I had not been to before - and I have now visited all thirteen.  Click the photo below to see my photos from the presidential libraries through the years...

My First Presidential Site Selfie

After 40+ years of visiting presidential sites with friends and family, I visited this site alone, and thus, took my first presidential site selfie.  Click the selfie below to find out which president lived here (and to discover the presidential first that this building represents):

 

 

(and it's 2015, why does spell-check want to change selfie to sulfide?!)

William McKinley - 25th President

Note the patriotic shirt I'm wearing!  This photo is from our second trip to the McKinley Memorial in 1977.  Click the photo to go to my blog post for today and see other McKinley sites - and to see how much I grew from my first trip to his Memorial :-)

Happy Presidents Day!

For those who are wondering about my interest in the presidents, click the photo to read the story...

 

 

A cherished memory of a visit to... Indiana?

It was Labor Day weekend of 1975.  The summer that was coming to an end had been a busy one for us - we had made several short trips visiting presidential sites all over the neighboring state of Ohio.  

My parents and I were sitting at the kitchen counter eating pancakes, as was our normal Saturday morning ritual (cereal was only for weekdays).  As we were finishing our breakfast...

(click the photo to read the rest of the story)