History Category

The Elusive Earrings-A Valentine’s Day Story

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

By Judy Vorfeld
PEORIA, ARIZONA—1988 Not again! I searched the car’s interior carefully before admitting defeat. Even with pierced ears, I’d managed to lose not just one, as I’d done in 1971, but two earrings. And these were expensive.
Emerging from the blast furnace of our garage into our cool home, I’d almost decided not to tell [...]

Oh my gosh! My picture’s in a museum!

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Oh no! I’m a RELIC!. It’s okay if my grandparents’ photos and story are in the Whatcom County Museum, but I just found out that MY picture is there, as well. I discovered that a man is writing a history of a certain time in Bellingham, Washington, and that on one of the pages of [...]

Red Hill’s Tunnels under Oahu

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

There’s a great article on the history of the Red Hills Tunnels in today’s Honolulu Advertiser. Ted Vorfeld, who is an engineer, sent the link, along with some memories of the Red Hills Tunnels (which at one time were classified top secret by the U.S. government):
Uncle Charles Mullin took us through the place many [...]

A Report on the Pearl Harbor Attack on December 7, 1941

Saturday, June 9th, 2007