Recent content by Highlands

I shot on my HS rifle team. The range was in a school building - of course that would have been 50+ years ago in WI. I am now in upstate NY. My club has been hosting a junior club for at least that long. We supply all the equipment for the kids and set aside 2 hrs on Sun night and 2 hrs on Tue...

Copper Shortage Since copper was a restricted war material: "In the middle of World War II, Secretary of War Henry Stimson asked Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau if he could borrow some of the government's silver on repository in West Point, N.Y. With metal in high demand for weaponry...

Beekeeper here! :) I've kept bees off and on for 40 years. Had 4 hives going into last winter and they all died. Bought two new packages this spring and started again. It was a great summer. Split both of them since they built up so fast. Took 120 pounds of honey off 3 weeks ago. Once the...

Sorry Wrong Battle. Taffy 3 engaged during the battle of Leyte Gulf. October 25, 1944.

I served on the USS Johnston (DDD821) which was named after the USS Johnston (DD557). 557 was instrumental in protecting the landing force at the Coral Sea. For more details of the heroic action of the 557 before she was sunk in battle search "Taffy 3". Three destroyers and four smaller...

We have raised most of our own meat and eggs for 30+ years. Even milked and made cheese and butter when the kids were growing up. Now just down to beef and chicken and eggs. Did butcher our Christmas turkey today. He got a little bigger than we expected - 40 pounds! But with 11 grandchildren...

MIA My father served in the army infantry in Italy during WWII. He got a phone call ~ 1958. It was from the father of a US pilot who had gone missing during combat in Italy. The family had been trying to find out what happened to their son ever since the war ended. The father went to...

Chess set from old brass I made my son a chess set.