Honoring the Veterans and Those Who Tell Their Stories
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Why is election day on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November?
Originally everything was back-timed so that the voting would be completed by the time the Electoral College was to meet on the first Wednesday in December; in 1792 it was
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Drunk Driving Laws Date to 1910
New York led the way in passing the first laws against drunk driving. The year was 1910. At first, the methods used by a police officer to check for drunkenness
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Rock ‘N’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip–New Book Presents Iconic Billboards
In the early days of rock ‘n’ roll, before MTV and the Internet, iTunes and Spotify, record companies began to gravitate to advertising their musical groups on billboards along Los
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Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzáles (1928-2005): Poet and Activist
- Professional Boxer
- Poet
- Leader in the movement for justice and equality for Mexican-Americans in the Southwest
Rodolfo Gonzáles was born in Denver, Colorado, the youngest of eight children. His mother died when he was two so the children grew up in a household with only their father. The family lived in a tough section of town, Denver’s “Eastside Barrio.”
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Gus Arriola and The Comic Strip Character of Gordo
Gordo, the comic strip character featured in newspapers for 44 years, was created by artist Gus Arriola (1917-2008). In the cartoon, Gordo started out as a bean farmer in Mexico,
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