Yesteryear

A drawing of Bluto by Randy Milholland, the Popeye Sunday cartoonist, especially for Boomer Magazine
Nostalgia

‘It’s That One-Eyed Sailor Again!’

Ninety years of Bluto – or is it Brutus?

By Fred M. Grandinetti | October 5, 2022
grandparents with boy on beach. Photo by Wavebreakmedia Ltd, Dreamstime. for article on revisiting vacation spots of the past
Nostalgia

Revisiting Vacation Spots of the Past

Can you go back again?

By Charlie Fletcher | September 12, 2022
Schoolchildren raise the Freedom Flag at their school. In the wake of 9/11, a restaurateur in Richmond, Virginia, created the Freedom Flag to symbolize the import of the day and to honor the importance of freedom into the future.
History

The Freedom Flag Honors and Remembers

A movement to establish a national symbol of remembrance

By Annie Tobey | September 9, 2022
A quilt made from pieces of her mother's aprons: Author, educator, and Boomer reader Diann Logan recalls her mother’s many aprons over the years, her childhood game of playfully untying her mother’s apron strings, the fabrics that made these homespun garments, and the aprons as her ties to the past.
Family

Apron Strings

Fond memories of her mother

By Diann Logan | September 6, 2022
A restored Good Humor Truck and man dressed as the Good Humor Man. Photo by Greg Kelton, Dreamstime. A memory of childhood excitement when the Good Humor Truck came to the neighborhood: from hearing the bells to enjoying the "heavenly treat."
From Our Readers

The Good Humor Truck

Fond memories of flagging down the ice cream man

By R. G. Begora | August 30, 2022
Inside the dome of the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building. Travel writer Rick Steves recalls his visit to Berlin’s Reichstag – the German parliament building – and digs beneath the entertainment value of travel to examine its value in understanding history, broadening our perspectives, and understanding current events more fully.
History

Berlin’s Reichstag as a History Lesson

Teary-eyed Germans and a big glass dome

By Rick Steves | August 30, 2022
Visitor Center: The Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, tells the story of 9/11 on the site where the fourth hijacked plane crashed.
Annie Tobey

Flight 93 National Memorial

Connect with the past, and honor the heroes

By Annie Tobey | August 23, 2022
Kent McCord and Martin Milner in Adam-12 - NBC publicity. Nostalgia writer Nick Thomas speaks with veteran actor Kent McCord on the fortuitous start to his career and several of his roles, including “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” and most notably co-starring alongside Martin Milner (1931-2015) in “Adam-12.”
Nick Thomas

Kent McCord of ‘Adam 12’ on His Career

Beginning with “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”

By Nick Thomas | August 22, 2022
Women's suffrage progress and pitfalls
History

Women’s Suffrage Progress and Shortcomings

Celebrate, remember, and learn

August 17, 2022
Votes for Women sashes, Lucy Burns Museum
History

Fairfax County Women's Suffrage

The Virginia county commemorates its role in the 19th Amendment

August 17, 2022

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