by Debby Efurd | Oct 19, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
On December 14, 1927, a young, 36-year-old anthropologist named Zora Neale Hurston, boarded a train at Penn Station headed for a certain community on the northern edge of Mobile, Alabama. She was on that train to meet the last living person who could tell the...
by Debby Efurd | Sep 28, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
In 1869, New York City had a big problem that no one wanted to discuss. Every morning, municipal workers moved through alleys, doorways, ash heaps, and vacant lots collecting the bodies of abandoned infants. It happened so often that individual cases barely seemed...
by Debby Efurd | Aug 10, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
In the summer of 1985, two boys from Dublin, Ireland went outside to play before dinner. Within a matter of days, they stepped off a jumbo jet in New York. They crossed the Irish Sea and the Atlantic without passports, tickets, luggage, or a single adult noticing what...
by Debby Efurd | Aug 3, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
In November 1938, a sixteen-year-old Jewish girl named Hilde Back arrived in Sweden, alone, on a train from Germany. Her parents were not with her. The Swedish government had agreed to accept only Jewish refugee children, not their parents. Hilde’s mother and...
by Debby Efurd | Jul 27, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
Between 1854 and 1929, there was a crisis in New York City. The city had become unsustainably overcrowded due to an influx of thousands of immigrants every day. Does this sound familiar? An estimated 350,000 orphaned, abandoned and homeless children were transported...
by Debby Efurd | Jul 6, 2026 | History & Heroes, Holidays & Seasons |
I’m feeling nostalgic on this July 4th, 2026. I’m watching historic documentaries and listening to my favorite music of years past. I’m particularly enthralled with America’s composer. I’m talking about Irving Berlin. Irving Berlin was born Israel Beilin...
by Debby Efurd | Jun 29, 2026 | History & Heroes, Holidays & Seasons |
This week our country celebrates 250 years since declaring its independence. Our founding fathers signed our Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. This document is a most extraordinary, extremely significant political document. This July 4th is an opportunity...
by Debby Efurd | Jun 15, 2026 | Faith & Prayer, History & Heroes |
“Astonishing! Can you imagine walking up to your own horrific execution, kissing the stake where you would be chained and burned alive, and then using your final moments to boldly preach to the crowd instead of crying for help?In 1557, during the cruel and...
by Debby Efurd | Jun 8, 2026 | History & Heroes |
As I write this, it has been 82 years since hundreds of thousands of young men landed at Normandy, France to attack the Germans in a huge allied forces onslaught. On that day, June 6, 1944, two brothers from Kansas landed at Omaha Beach. They promised to meet on...
by Debby Efurd | Jun 1, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
The RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. The largest ocean liner ever built, the Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, with over 2,200 people on...
by Debby Efurd | May 18, 2026 | Faith & Prayer, History & Heroes |
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (“Teddy) was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He was a natural leader, serving in various capacities in the public forum. He was a rather sickly child with acute asthma, but overcame health problems...
by Debby Efurd | May 11, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
How is it possible? He was never a doctor or ever held a license. He never set foot in a medical school. But somehow, he managed to save over 7,000 lives.He was known as “Dr. Couney,” but not a real doctor at all. With no education or license he was a charlatan in the...
