Florence Reborn: 50th Anniversary after the Flood
It’s been 50 years since the Arno River’s banks overflowed, bringing a raging torrent of water, mud, abandoned vehicles, and dead animals rushing through the narrow streets of Florence’s […]
Category Archives: Anniversaries
National Park Service: Happy 100th Birthday
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service (NPS) in legislation signed in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson. Happy birthday to the NPS and to our parks! […]
Chernobyl at 30
Today is Chernobyl ‘s 30th anniversary– and the impacts of the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster (yes, they say, worse than Fukushima in 2011) are still being felt in […]
Earth Day at 45: April 22 2015
Forty five years ago today– it was 1970, the Viet Nam War, civil rights and social unrest were front and center – a 25-year-old named Denis Hayes launched the first […]
D Day at 70: June 6 2014
Most of us have lost our living links to D Day 70 years ago– our (grand) dads, uncles, cousins and family friends. Today I am time traveling to Normandy, still […]
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