The Chipmunk Mafia By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Our daughter Hope, an avid backpacker, flew to Colorado with a friend to visit my wife and me while we were serving as rangers at Rocky Mountain National Park several summers ago. On the morning after their hike deep into the mountains, she was preparing breakfast when
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JUNALUSKA AND ANDREW JACKSON: A Hero and a Scoundrel By Dr. Lorin Swinehart During the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama, a Creek POW being interrogated by Major General Andrew Jackson lunged at him with a knife. The Cherokee chief Junaluska tripped the attacker, saving Jackson’s life, an act of heroism that he
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BASS REEVES: Legendary Lawman (The first African-American US Marshall West of the Mississippi) By Dr. Loren Swinehart He rode a white horse, packed a pair of Colt .45 six shooters and handed out pieces of silver as his calling cards. He was accompanied by a faithful Indian companion. “Return with us now to those thrilling
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AUGUST, 1945: Memories of another Time and Place By Dr. Lorin Swinehart In August, 1945, as the long awaited birth of my baby sister approached, I was sent off to spend ten days on my grandfather’s farm, located on a gravel road about four miles north of my hometown of Ashland, Ohio. At the
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¡SI SE PUEDE! (“Yes, we can!”) By Dr. Lorin Swinehart The Life and Struggles Of Cesar Chavez “One of the heroic figures of our time.” — Senator Robert F. Kennedy On February 25, 2015, Randy Vasquez died a horrendous death by drowning in a manure pond at the Riverview Dairy, which provides milk for
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War Against The Dolphins By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “The dolphins are here!” called my wife LaVon from the next room. I hurried out on to the deck, where I spied perhaps a dozen of our finny friends engaging in a finely coordinated strategy, herding a school of fish against the shore. A few appeared
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CHICO MENDES: Gandhi of the Rain Forest By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “Chico is alive in the things that he did, the things that he stood for.” On the evening of Thursday, December 22, 1988, Brazilian labor leader and environmental activist Chico Mendes was brutally gunned down before the horrified eyes of his four-year old
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I Can Measure The Span Of My Life In Dogs By Dr. Lorin Swinehart There were my boyhood friends Tippy, a mixed breed beagle, and Buddy, a fox terrier. Years later, while backpacking in New Mexico’s Chuska Mountains, I met Tiger, a half-starved border collie, hanging out by an abandoned Navaho Hogan, and she
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Seeds Of Hope By Dr. Lorin Swinehart The public image of Jane Goodall is that of a nice lady who has befriended wild chimpanzees, but she is also a multifaceted, renaissance person who is concerned with many global issues. Her latest book Seeds of Hope explores the history of man’s dependence upon plants for
The Time Has Come To Rein In Big Business By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.” H.G. Wells Corporate behemoths have conquered the United States of America and much of the rest of the world. They
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