Dickens Christmas
This past weekend, Linda was in Franklin, Tn. Visiting our son and his family and picking up her new ride. While there, the Dickens Christmas Festival was taking place on Saturday in downtown Franklin. Linda said there were only about 17 million people there but it was beautiful. They had Victorian era activities, musical and […]
The First Ever Vocal Radio Broadcast on December 24, 1906
The first ever vocal radio broadcast was on December 24, 1906 and it consisted of a reading from Luke chapter 2. A Canadian engineer and inventor, Reginald Fressenden (1866-1932) was the oldest son of an Anglican minister growing up near Niagara Falls. On Christmas Eve in 1906, from his workshop in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Fressenden […]