Articles About People
From Tragedy to Tradition: The Gene Yang Gang
Born From Loss, The Gene Yang Gang Brings HealingThe train was making good time as it cruised through the Arizona desert past Picacho Peak. To the east and west, mountain peaks rose above the desert floor, casting shadows in the late afternoon sun. The crew watched...
The Baby Was Four Months Old When We Took Him To Italy
Taking Him to Italy was the Right CallFour-month-old Liam had arrived in Italy with his parents, Chad and Susie, who are professors at different small midwest U.S. universities. About ten years ago Susie had the opportunity to teach in Italy and Chad had decided that...
An Audience With The Queen Of All Media
Sam's Journey to Meet The Queen of All MediaSam East, a Toronto radio DJ, was just minutes away from conducting her first interview on National TV. To add to the stress, the person she was going to talk with was none other than the Queen of all Media, Oprah Winfrey. ...
In A Covid-19 Ward, All a Patient Sees are Eyeballs
On the Front Lines of the Covid-19 BattleCathi is a nurse who works on a Covid-19 Ward in a smaller Michigan hospital that normally has 300 beds. With the world facing the Covid-19 crisis, she is on the front lines of the battle to save lives, a battle that is lost...
The Death of Catbird Red Over Wallaceburg
An Airplane Crash Brings the Cold War to Wallaceburg, Ontario.As a new decade dawned in the 1950s, the immediate aftermath of World War II had led to new conflicts between recent allies. The United States and the Soviet Union, the world’s two remaining superpowers,...
Brian Knowler: The Police Officer Who Won’t Let PTSD Win
A Desire to HelpWhen we are kids, we often idolize the “helpers” around us. Firefighters, police, and soldiers tend to loom larger than life in the eyes of many kids, and some spend at least a part of their childhood pretending to be one of them. Sometimes those...
John T. Howard: Engineering Basically Had a Cow!
Even Cable TV Networks Need Cable Installed Most of the human creations we see in the world around us are the results of people who work behind the scenes. The movies we watch are the final product of gigantic masses of people, most of whom never appear on the...
Carl Designed It, Bertha Sold It
Riding the 1886 Benz Motorwagen That Built an Industry“Why don’t we start it up?” asks Wes. We're sitting at a picnic table on the outer edge of his sizable collection, inside of an eight-bay pole barn structure. This is where he houses his mix of antique cars, fire...