When I was attending Iowa State University, I decided that I needed to take up running. Up until that point, running was never my thing.…
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I am an author and historian who writes about long-forgotten and out of the way events and places. I love the bizarre, the unusual, and the downright weird. I write a regular blog at my website, www.johnbrassardjrcom.wordpress.com, and also manage a facebook page about things of historical interest called The Kitchen Table Historian.
History is a forgetful creature. While there is much about our past that we know, there is so much more that we don’t. If the…
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One night several years ago – longer ago than I want to care to admit – I had an experience with something that I couldn’t…
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I’m not afraid of the dark. I take my trash out in the middle of the night without a flashlight, treading the familiar ground of…
Leave a CommentCharles Englehart was attacked outside of his car one dark night in 1935. A harmless 70-year-old man liked by everyone, who would commit such an…
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If history is made up of small stories, then some of them fall off and disappear, like table scraps. Come and sample a few of…
Leave a CommentWhen I was younger, I spent a year working for a big box retail chain. One day, I noticed that one of my fellow employees…
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In the early 1900’s, a Nebraska schoolteacher visited an unspeakable atrocity upon the students under her care in Sarpy County. Or did she? Sources…
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Jeffery McCain was going to school. Jeffery, or Jeffy, as everyone called him, loved school, especially reading. Books allowed him to visit places that he…
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An early December blizzard chilled Iowa to the bone. It still wasn’t as cold as the heart of a father seeking vengeance for his daughter.…
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