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Proud Husband/Dad/Teacher/History Aficionado/Former Athlete/Member of the Marshall Thundering Herd/Hall of Famer/2022-23 Kentucky American History Teacher of the Year #GirlDad #KentuckyColonel #GoHerd #Appalachia
After a 2024 ranking of #21, Kentucky has moved up four spots to #17 in the national public school system rankings of 2025 by WalletHub!
Teachers, we are doing a great job serving our students. Let’s keep working hard and move our ranking even higher by next year!!!
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
- John Quincy Adams
Now pay attention to the Straight of Hormuz.
About 20% of the global daily oil consumption transits the straight every 24 hours.
When it’s “Wear Pink Day” at the AAU Junior National Volleyball Championship, you go all out to support your wife and her team!!!
18.06.2025 12:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The United States must do everything possible to stay out of the conflict between Israel and Iran. As we have seen, history repeats itself, and any involvement America has with war or regime change in the Middle East does not end well.
17.06.2025 13:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Have an AMAZING day everyone!
#naturesbeauty
HAPPY FLAG DAY!!!
14.06.2025 13:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s that easy to federalize and call out the National Guard. Who knew?
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81 years ago today two Johnson County, Kentucky men found themselves among the first wave in the landings at Normandy (D-Day).
Curtiss Burchett and Onda Murphy, both of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, would lose their lives on Omaha Beach that day.
#DDay81
Six days ago…
06.06.2025 01:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Elon has gone full Kendrick…
05.06.2025 20:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s getting worse as we speak…
05.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is going to be a very bad, public break-up, isn’t it?
05.06.2025 18:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the greatest state in the Union, from the flatlands of the Mississippi River to the mountains of eastern Kentucky!!!
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My grandfather Bob VanHoose worked for nearly two decades at the Fisher Body plant in Marion, Indiana.
#HillbillyHighway
Picked up some of my summer reading today. This should cover June.
#BookAddict
#HistoryNerd
#LearningIsFun
A tale of two Memorial holiday posts…
26.05.2025 18:05 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Paintsville making the political news in Jacksonville, Florida. Looks like Nicholas Hazelett and others have been working hard!
www.news4jax.com/news/politic...
A brand new basketball and Snoop’s debut album… that’s one hell of a Christmas!
21.05.2025 22:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Did any of my friends (your parents or grandparents) out there travel the “Hillbilly Highway” in the 1940s, 50s and 60s looking for work? I am thinking about building a lesson to teach my students next year about it and sure would like to hear of the experience?
Some questions to consider:
Man, this former governor was one piece of work…
14.05.2025 11:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lots of people are learning about the Foreign Emoluments Clause in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution now.
At least that is a positive.
I’ve always been thankful for this piece of artwork from 2001 by legendary teacher/principal/painter and overall fantastic artist Jan Haddox!
#GoHerd
The incredible story of Alfred Richardson of Warfield, Kentucky. From the Kentucky Historical Society, January 20, 1975.
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What a great find today!! How fantastic is this antique button?
10.05.2025 19:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bought a set of these very awesome glasses celebrating the bicentennial of 1976 and they came in the mail yesterday!
10.05.2025 14:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How amazing is it that the small town of Paintsville had a professional baseball team for seven seasons AND that those teams won four league titles?
09.05.2025 19:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Talk about a “hair raising” experience! From The Paintsville Herald, November 14, 1984.
06.05.2025 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“We are the United States of Amnesia. We do not learn from history.”
From “Turning Point: The Vietnam War, Episode 5”
