Are you a fan of the TV series “Game of Thrones?” It is one of many spin-offs of the card game “Clue,” based on a parlor Game, Murder, patented by the British musician Anthony Pratt in 1944. The game’s premise is that a blackmailer invites six people, each with a dark secret, to his ...

I’ve been told my Grandpa Allen’s father, John, was a dirt farmer in the Detroit area, and that he worked as a teamster. A teamster lower case, not a member of the Teamsters Union. John Allen carted things around for people, and I suspect that the vehicle he used was a mule-drawn wagon, ...

“‘Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stock-fish!” This is Sir John Falstaff, in Shakepeare’s “Henry IV, part I,” mincing no words as he berates young Prince Hal for, basically, calling him fat. Falstaff gives it right back, ...

As winter gives way to spring, the days are lengthening, and temperatures are rising. The library is actively preparing an array of programs for adults, teens and children for the upcoming spring and summer seasons. For details of upcoming events, please visit the library’s website at ...

So far this winter, ORDA’s Mount Van Hoevenberg staff and volunteers have hosted an array of back-to-back and — at times — simultaneous events, often under very trying conditions. Taking days off is, at times, catch-as-one-can, as when working with weather-dependent events, as ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts. Following my escape from the Nazi slave labor camp, and after encountering my brother-in-law, Bela Engel, on the streets of Budapest, he took me to one of the Swedish Safe Houses, established by Raoul Wallenberg, the legendary Swedish diplomat, ...