With great appreciation to Katharine Lee Bates who penned the beloved song America, The Beautiful in 1913. O beautiful for spacious skies that welcomed all my kin who crossed the seas with hopeful dreams they carried deep within. America! America! God...

Two years ago today I took my first footsteps into the blogging world here with the inaugural post at 100 Years in America and over at Small-leaved Shamrock followed the next day by the small beginnings of another blog, A light that shines again. ...

Ivic's painting of the young girl sewing a Croatian flag thanks to the Croatian History website's Croatian Coat of Arms During the Centuries. The painting was originally published on the cover of "Hrvatska žena, grana br. 1, Chicago, 1929-2009;...

Could this have been the building from which Steven Toth sent letters to his wife and family giving them information about his new life in America? Did he write? If so, how often? He missed the birth of his second child. Her birth record lists him...

Vedra and Scotty, canine guards of the Ujlaki house at 43 Nugent Avenue, South Beach, Staten Island, c. 1925 What The Dog Perhaps Hears by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Lisel Mueller If an inaudible whistle blown between our lips can send him home to...