By Nellie Curtiss … I was in 6th grade when I first heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. As a dependent (brat) at Craig AFB in Selma, Alabama, I wondered what the movement was all about. Signs calling King a communist were plastered all over Selma, Al. My parents were not as informed as IContinue reading “A Walk with Martin Luther King, Jr.”
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National Corn Chip Day is Monday Jan 29!
By Nellie Curtiss …. It comes Monday January 29: National CORN CHIP Day started because of a small crunchy snack. The original ORIGINAL “beach snack” was created from frying masa (as you know, Masa is dough from ground corn) into a funky chip. In 1932 (during the Great Depression) C.E. Doolin, a tinkerer, invented theContinue reading “National Corn Chip Day is Monday Jan 29!”
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