How many American cemeteries can claim to have a Crimean War veteran? Well, York’s Prospect Hill Cemetery does. Doctor Henry L. Smyser, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, worked as a Surgeon Major in the Crimean War, and a decade later assigned to a military hospital in York. It being a warm-ish October Sunday,Continue reading “A Crimean War Veteran”
Daily Archives: October 19, 2025
The Lottery Kiosk
As I was leaving the grocery store yesterday, an elderly man stopped me at the self-serve lottery kiosk. He was buying scratch-off tickets — he was organized, he had a plastic envelope — and there was one, something like Monster Mash, that he didn’t understand. There was something about the logo on the touchscreen thatContinue reading “The Lottery Kiosk”