Koritansky Hall, Hiram College. Site where James Garfield preached. Some things are worth the wait. Last weekend, I set out on my first Chasing Presidents tour of 2023. I turned back after only a half hour. I was to visit five new presidential sites and three I have...
The Warren Harding Presidential Library and Museum New Year's Eve is not the typical day to visit a Presidential Museum, but I was still on the front end of a nice long weekend and braved the drizzly morning to accomplish a presidential trifecta. I stopped at Warren...
Downtown Independence Maybe you know that Harry Truman is from Independence, Missouri. Maybe you know he became president on the death of Franklin Roosevelt. If you know that you probably know that Roosevelt and Truman spoke only a handful of times- and FDR did not...
Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President Just a mile from the Buffalo City Center at Niagara Square sits one of the unknown gems of Presidential History. It is the home where Vice President Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office on the death of President McKinley....
Coming to Terms with Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. Photo by Eric Ebinger, July, 2022 My first trip to the Hermitage was in 1998 after an all night road trip from State College to Nashville. I dare say we embarked on the trip for the sole purpose of...
I slept soundly in the Holiday Inn Express and Suites alongside Interstate 70 just west of Vandalia, Illinois. I suppose I have to sleep soundly after a full day of work on a Friday followed by seven hours of driving. But that is what I do to myself to Chase Presidents. And I was prepared for a full day at dawn’s early light.
Chasing Presidents #35 Only in college, perhaps, do you make such fast friends that you spend an entire day together and know very little about them. Such was the case my first Saturday at Penn State. A morning of Ultimate Frisbee, followed by lunch, followed by an...
I left the crabs to their chances. As I brushed the sand off my feet, I wondered what else Long Branch might have in store for me. I had about twenty minutes left before the opening of Monmouth. And I like to be at places when they open to beat the throngs. I am sure...
I wasn’t chasing James Garfield last September in Long Branch, New Jersey. In fact, forgive me this admission, it had slipped my mind that Long Branch had anything to do with the Orange Township, Ohio born 20th President of the United States. But we will get to...