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Dancing Plague

Posted on October 3, 2020 by Caryn

Many of us have heard of “dance mania” or “dance fever,” but I wonder how many people realize that those were real things. There have been a number of times in history when people were suddenly compelled to dance without stopping. In fact, they really couldn’t stop until they fell down with exhaustion. Continue reading →

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Ancient Tickle Torture

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Caryn

As children, most of us have been on the receiving end of a form of “torture” that really isn’t exactly torture for most of us, but rather just good clean fun…provided that the torturer knows when to stop. My sisters and I were among the experts of our era…at least four of us were. Continue reading →

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Lockerbie Heroes

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Caryn

On December 21, 1988, at 7:00pm, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. Continue reading →

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Warning Ignored

Posted on March 29, 2019 by Caryn

Most people who were alive in 1980, remember the catastrophic eruption of Mount Saint Helens on May 18th, but I wonder how many people…at least people Continue reading →

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Vigilantes

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Caryn

When a crime is committed, it seems to take forever to bring justice for the victims. Sometimes people just don’t want to wait, or they are so mad about the crime committed against them or their family, that they decide, … Continue reading →

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Schoolchildren’s Blizzard

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Caryn

With all of the extreme weather shows, warnings, and education we have access to these days, one would think that blizzard related deaths would quickly become a thing of the past, but it never seems to go that way exactly. … Continue reading →

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Ashtabula Train Disaster

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Caryn

Through the centuries, new designs were developed to build things we needed. As the railroad moved across the nation, track laying came across deep gorges and flat plains. Of course, the flat plains were easy to deal with, and trains … Continue reading →

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To This Day

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Caryn

When I was about 10 years old or so, my family and my Uncle Bill’s family went to the Jackson, Wyoming area. While we were stopped at a lookout point for the Teton Mountains, my dad told a story, or … Continue reading →

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Helping Hands

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Caryn

On October 11, 2015, a wildfire devastated a large area north of Casper, including the area where my nephew, Barry Schulenberg and his wife, Kelli live. While their house was not one that was damaged, they did not escape unscathed. … Continue reading →

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Forever Missing

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Caryn

As the fourteenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks approached, movies that had been filmed following those horrible events began to show up on television again. I think I’ve already watched each and every one of them, but I always … Continue reading →

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