Splashback
Talk about an inauspicious start. One day in 1898, James Heddon, then a Michigan newspaper publisher, flung a whittled piece of wood into a pond while waiting for a fishing...
Pirates were as big news in 1861 as they are today. Harper’s Weekly featured the triumphant victory on August 1 of the U.S. frigate St. Lawrence over the Privateer Petrel,...
The first two-piece bathing suit debuted in 1946 and was designed by Jacques Helm.
Christopher Columbus Smith built his first boat, a lake boat created for duck hunting, at the prodigious age of 13.
Rock Around The Clock turned into “Fish Around the Clock” after Bill Haley and the Comets finished their South American tour in 1958.
