Did You Know ...
... that 40 years ago today, Dec. 26, 1972, Harry "The Buck Stops Here" Truman died at the age of 88? The 33rd president of the United States assumed office at the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt and was reelected in 1948.
... that 57 years ago today, Dec. 26, 1955, Porgy and Bess opened in Leningrad? The American musical was an attempt to inject Western culture into the USSR during the Cold War.
... that 71 years ago today, Dec. 26, 1941, Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address the U.S. Congress? The address was given less than three weeks after the United States was thrust into World War II by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
May God bless you and keep you 'til we meet again,
Ken Tate,
Good Old Days® magazine
Looking Back® magazine
Good Old Days® books
Ken Tate, along with his wife, Janice, edits Good Old Days magazine and the Annie's Attic Mysteries series for Annie's, a publisher located in Berne, Ind. Ken and Janice live in the Ozark Mountains of north Arkansas on property that has been in their family for nearly a century.
Ken began working with Good Old Days in 1989 after a long career editing newspapers and magazines. It was only natural, Ken says, that Janice joined him in editing the nostalgia magazines in 1997. She had worked with him for years on various publications before the birth of their three children.
In addition to their work on the magazine and books, Ken and Janice run a small ranching operation on the 400-acre, old home place and enjoy time with their extended family. Ken is looking forward to the golden anniversary of Good Old Days in 2013. Retirement, he contends, is highly overrated -- at least for him.
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