My granduncle Kermit Eugene Bowen, b. 10 June 1908 in Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia to James William Bowen and Savilla Nethers Bowen. He died January 1973. While in WWII, he met an English nurse, Betty Harland. The married and after the war, they lived in the U.S., lastly in Belle Meade, Maryland. Kermit was one of 8 brothers and 3 sisters (2 of whom, twins, died young).
Disco, polyester, Nixon and Watergate, equal rights, the "new right", the rise of terrorism . . . oh what a decade. Not much was resolved but a lot happened!
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
Did you know medics, doctors and nurses used to prescribe narcotics as treatment?
Radium water, cough syrup made of alcohol, marijuana, and morphine, cocaine toothache drops for children, snake oil - medicine has changed quite a bit in the past 100 years or so, as has the way that ...