It would be difficult for a child in America today to identify with the life of someone of the same age growing up during and just after World War II. Those were different times; some would say simpler times. Simpler? Maybe...in some ways. They were definitely exciting times for those of us who as children experienced them. The whole world was at war and yet there were no imbedded reporters and camera people who brought the horror of it all into our living rooms each night. There were reporters who did their best to bring us the details on the radio, in the newspapers and the news reels at...

The Chambers Concise Dictionary defines the word "serendipity" as "the faculty of making happy chance finds." In the Merriam Webster Dictionary it is "the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought after." Coined by Horace Walpole in 1754, it is the term that characterizes the author's life and is the theme that runs throughout this book. Stealing Stones is about a journey; one which has taken many unexpected and for the most part happy turns. The author has probably been, metaphorically speaking, Stealing Stones throughout his whole adult life, finding himself...

SAVANNAH has the largest designated Historic Landmark District in America and it is based on the original plan for the Colony of Georgia designed by James Edward Oglethorpe in 1733. Within the District today are residences, hotels, churches, businesses and a university. Thousands of tourists visit the city every year and most, residents and tourists alike, walk the streets in the Historic District without any idea of for whom the streets are named. Who were these historic figures, what did they do to have a street named for them? Oglethorpe and Martin Luther King are two names most would...