by Heather Laskin | Dec 14, 2016 | Awesome
Throughout the nearly 50 years Connie Mauro spent working at the Mount Vernon Public Library in New York, she must have handed out hundreds of library cards to children eager to read. She had no idea that one of those eager children would grow up to be an...
by Heather Laskin | Dec 11, 2016 | Awesome
Kirk Douglas knows how to make an entrance. With boxing gloves in every centerpiece and the theme from “Rocky” blaring over the speakers, Douglas, one of the golden age of Hollywood’s last living legends, walked confidently into the Sunset Room at...
by Heather Laskin | Nov 28, 2016 | Awesome
Meet Irene Crump and Phyllis Jones – twin sisters who just celebrated their 100th birthday together! The twins were born 25 minutes apart on November 20th, 1916 and went to the same school, had the same first jobs, and now even live together in Stourbridge,...
by Heather Laskin | Nov 23, 2016 | Awesome
She was only 4 months old when her likeness was captured in a simple sketch that has since become familiar to generations. Now the original Gerber Baby is turning 90 years old! It was in 1927 that Dorothy Hope Smith sketched a rough charcoal portrait of Ann Taylor...
by Heather Laskin | Nov 1, 2016 | Awesome
One mother is celebrating her preemie baby daughter’s medical triumph. The baby girl, named Harper, was born at 23 weeks and given a 26 percent chance of survival — but she just celebrated her first birthday. Ajshay James was ecstatic to finally have a...
