Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…
In the love letters he wrote to his sweetheart, my grandfather extolled the joys of fighting in World War I. In one 1918 note from Paris, he wrote, “The beauty here is punctuated by the boom of long range shells (one just went off in the front of the hotel), but no one seems to mind, unless they are actually hit.”
The Washington Post Magazine
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Long the debate has raged: Did Frederick indeed summit Mount McKinley in 1906? Edited by Alison Osius.
Climbing
Edited by Alison Osius.
Republished in 20 Years of Climbing Magazine.
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My great-great-uncle, Tim Donahue, played catcher for the major league Chicago Colts in the 1890s. When he came to bat once in 1899, according to the Chicago Tribune, “It appeared as though the select party on top of a neighboring building would jump off in excess of delight.” Edited by Bob Hicks.
The Oregonian
Edited by Bob Hicks.
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