The small city of Socorro, in the Rio Grande River basin of south- central New Mexico was first founded in the 16th century. The settlement
Mrs. J. E. McAllister lived in Glendale, a city of Maricopa County of central Arizona. Once a desert, Glendale was developed by entrepreneurial investors who
We may have forgotten that the blimp or zeppelin was once a contender as a mode of international travel, rivaling the airplane. The Empire State
Blue Bonnets of Texas -circa 1945 I made many business trips to Texas over the past 20 years, visiting Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Angelo
On Sunday, January 22, 1939, visitors (probably from Nogales, Arizona) mailed a postcard from Nogales, Mexico to celebrate their visit. (The reverse of the postcard
Wooden Shoes from Holland, Michigan – 1942 In the 1840’s, a number of Dutch immigrants settled in western Michigan and the settlers became the dominant
At the end of August in 1937, the Pecks were in Brandon, Vermont. They wrote to Joe McAllister in Glendale, Arizona to describe their trip.
A Sunday Visit to Mexico – 1938 On January 28, 1938, a friend of Virginia McAllister was again in Nogales, Mexico. I posted another postcard
Tellings stories from the past.