Kris Kristofferson’s song “Jesus was a Capricorn” was released in November of 1972 on an album with the same name: Jesus was a Capricorn. He ate organic food.

I recently discovered that the poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was at West Point at the same time in the late 19th century as my grandfather Birch Oliver Mahaffey (1877-1958) and, like…

On September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda terrorists highjacked four commercial airliners, three of which were deliberately crashed into two towers of The World Trade Center in New York...

One of the constants in American politics is the propensity of candidates of all parties to make ridiculous statements promoting themselves and criticizing their opponents.

I’m sure some alert readers (ARs) were among the billions of people worldwide who had never heard of Butler, PA prior to July 13th, when former President Donald Trump narrowly...

Alert readers (ARs) of a certain age who are also fans of country music may recall a song recorded in 1971 by Steve Goodman titled, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name."

Most alert readers (ARs) surely know that in 1904 St. Louis hosted The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, commonly known as The World’s Fair; and in the same year we hosted the first...

This column is going to press during Passover, which ran from the evening of April 22nd until sunset on April 29th (inside Israel) or April 30th (outside Israel). As most alert readers (ARs)...

Eighty-one years ago, on June 1, 1943, Rip Sewell, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a blooper pitch in a game against the Boston Braves at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. After the...

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BCE in the religious sanctuary of Olympia in honor of Zeus, the greatest of the Greek Gods. Like his fellow gods and goddesses Zeus lived on...

As most alert readers (ARs) already know, the birthday of the Scottish poet Robert Burns has been celebrated at The Schlafly Tap Room every year without interruption since January of 1992.

Ever since the opening of The Schlafly Tap Room in 1991 one of the common tropes has been that of David vs. Goliath in telling the story of an upstart microbrewery that opened in the shadow...