Helen Viola Jackson grew up one of 10 children in the tiny southwestern Missouri town of Niangua, near Marshfield. Bolin, a widower who had served as a private in the 14th Missouri Cavalry during the Civil War seven decades earlier, lived nearby.
Mrs. Jackson’s father volunteered his teenage daughter to...
Four years ago, when pregnant with twins, Kristin Rising unsuccessfully begged her parents to move close by to help. When they came for a visit this summer, she didn’t have to say a word.
“I was really at a low, exhausted, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to do this’...
With the trial of George Floyd over, and a year of protests around the world, the Miami Herald offered a fascinating look back fifty years to the shooting of Viet Nam war protesters at Kent State.
Many of you may recall the iconic picture above either when it happened or...
Since March of late year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there has been a 24 percent spike nationwide in mental-health-related emergency room visits among children between the ages of 5 and 11, and a 31 percent rise among those between 12 and 17, compared with the same...