by Peggy Best | Jul 1, 2019 | military |
Peggy wears her pioneer outfit for a DAR sponsored rally commemorating our right to vote. Women did not always have the right to vote. Our U.S. Constitution gave white property owning men the privilege of voting. Over time each state gave white men regardless or...
by | Apr 4, 2019 | military |
I joined a group from the American Association of University women for a tour of The Howey Mansion at Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida about an hour drive from The Villages, where I live. We gathered at the Eisenhower Recreation Center, joined together in a caravan and met...
by | Apr 4, 2019 | military |
I joined thirty ladies of the National Society of Daughters of the Union on a field trip to Royal, one of Florida’s oldest African American communities, fifteen minutes’ drive from The Villages, Florida. We drove up to a fenced area with an historic marker...
by | Mar 16, 2019 | Blog, interviews, military, World War 2 |
Benjamin Mack-Jackson spoke at the John Bartram Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) at Eisenhower Recreation Center in the Villages, Florida. This young man spoke eloquently about the program he began at the age of thirteen. His project is to...
by | Feb 2, 2019 | military |
The suspense was killing me. Surrounded by hundreds of my fellow Florida Writers Association members, I was among the small group of Village authors waiting for the announcement of the prestigious Royal Palm Literary...
by | Jan 22, 2019 | military |
I spoke at the Mission Hills Ladies Club. Sixty members came. I told them how I learned my father’s story and shared his experiences as a Prisoner of War. Many members asked questions and most seemed quite interested. I sold 7 books....
