PHILANTHROPIC MADAM
Mystery surrounds Miss Rita’s early life. Raised in a prosperous, but unnamed Oregon family in the early 1900s, she left home to dance for a time for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo before she joined the vaudeville circuit. During her first, brief marriage, no one knows why she became a prostitute. When the Great […]
MOVERS AND SHAKERS: RABBI HENRY COHEN
When you travel Texas highways, you see historical markers that tell some of Texas’ best tales. For several years I wrote some of those marker stories and in the process I discovered a lot of Movers & Shakers that history books never mention. I plan to share some of the stories in my blogs. I […]