Archive: Jul 2021

 Today is the birthday of Henry Ford, American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company.    Ford did not invent the automobile, but he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford to buy.  As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people…

Rumor has it, Hamilton really did throw away his shot, and he threw it straight into Nassau Hall!! Ever since Sir George Otto Trevelyan published “The American Revolution” in 1905, word on the street has been that Alexander Hamilton shot a famous cannonball into Nassau Hall.  In the story, Sir George Otto Trevelyan tells of…