SEASON'S GREETINGS

Greetings to you and yours during this JOYOUS SEASON! Larry Elkins - elkinsphotos.com

JOHN ADAMS - PATRIOT OR TORY

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Why did American patriot and future U.S. President John Adams choose to mount a defense on behalf of the British soldiers who shot and killed protesting Bostonians during an incident that has become known as the Boston Massacre? The answer will appear in our next post. (Meanwhile, check out my website www.elkinsphotos.com and my photo related blog sites elkinsphotos-bisbee and history of photography-elkinsphotos.) Larry Elkins - Elkinsphotos Fine Art Photography

BARBER POLE

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Barber poles derive from the practice of bloodletting. Barbers, at one time, served as bloodletters as well as haircutters. The barber's pole is emplematic of blood soaked bandages. Today's barbers, in contrast to their predecessors, try not to draw blood. LARRY ELKINS - elkinsphotos.com

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH - TOMBSTONE AZ

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Tombstone Arizona is the oldest Protestant church in what is now the State of Arizona. An outbuilding now used as a Sunday school was formerly a brothel. LARRY ELKINS - ELKINS PHOTOS

THE OTHER BOLEYN

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Mary Boleyn was King Henry VIII's mistress. It is widely believed that Mary bore one or more of the king's children. Mary was the sister of Anne Boleyn, Henry's subsequent second wife.

SCHOOL INTEGRATION

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - On May 17th, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that public school segregation was unconstitutional.

ARIZONA - THE VALENTINE STATE

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Arizona, admitted to the Union on February 14th, 1912, is affectionately known as the Valentine State.