My mother's birthday was last Thursday. She was born in 1925.
The New Yorker magazine put out its first issue that year.
Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the President of the United
States some six months before mom was born. In Tennessee, the
teaching of evolution was banned, which would, in just a few
short months, lead to the indictment of John Scopes, a high
school teacher charged with teaching Darwin's theory to his
students. He was found guilty and fined $100. "The Great Gatsby"
was published that year. I don't think my mother ever read it,
though I am curious as to what she would have thought of it if
she had. Some 40,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan marched in
Washington the year mom was born. An estimated 5 million
Americans claimed membership in that racist organization. The
Grand Ol' Opry made its radio debut that same month mom was
born, first broadcast under the name WSM Barn Dance. Mom and
Mount Rushmore were the same age.  Paul Newman, Peter Sellers,
Johnny Carson and Jack Lemmon were born that y