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W.M. Tarrant
Aug 20, 20232 min read
The Disappearing Railroad Blues
Recently my wife and I took a trip to New Orleans where we stayed at a boutique hotel in a quiet corner of the French Quarter and took...
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W.M. Tarrant
Mar 24, 20233 min read
The First Chinese American Women Aviators
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’ll take a brief look at three of the first female Chinese pilots in America. All three became...
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W.M. Tarrant
Mar 17, 20233 min read
An Irish Protestant at the Knights of Columbus
I wasn’t afraid. Well, not much, but I could feel the stares and hear the muttering. A few days previous, a friend asked if I wanted to...
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W.M. Tarrant
Jan 31, 20233 min read
Stock Car Races and The Beatles
Our eyes were as wide as the proverbial saucers. Cars zoomed around the dirt track jockeying for position, the jockeying resulting in...
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W.M. Tarrant
Jan 12, 20233 min read
A Childhood Hobby Revisited
What do old guys do in the wintertime? Some of us revert to childhood. I built model planes as a kid and in my retirement have resumed...
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W.M. Tarrant
Jun 9, 20222 min read
Going Down to Rosedale
Traveling on Route One between Clarksdale and Rosedale, Mississippi, I tried to imagine what it was like when cotton fields filled the...
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W.M. Tarrant
Apr 6, 20221 min read
America’s First Scheduled Passenger Air Service
On New Year’s Day, 1914, the first scheduled passenger air service in the United States made its inaugural flight between St. Petersburg...
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W.M. Tarrant
Mar 9, 20224 min read
A Pontiac Bonneville and Jimi Hendrix
“Hey, where ya goin’!” exclaimed Larry. The three girls in the white 1964 Pontiac Bonneville had pulled over. I kept on going. “They...
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W.M. Tarrant
Feb 23, 20225 min read
The Tragic Tarrant Tabor
[The following is a condensed version of a previously unpublished article.] During the Great War the Germans bombed London with their...
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W.M. Tarrant
Feb 1, 20223 min read
I’d like a flying lesson
“I’d like a flying lesson,” I said. Extending my hand to reveal a coupon, I added, “I have a five-dollar coupon.” 1971. I had just...
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