LIFESTYLE 5 days ago Meet the American who made cranberries a Turkey Day tradition, Marcus Urann, farmer with can-do spirit Marcus L. Urann turned the hyper-local cranberry into a staple of the Thanksgiving dinner table when he pioneered a way to can the sauce and sell it around the nation.
LIFESTYLE November 17 Meet the American who gave the nation our Thanksgiving origin story: Pilgrim Edward Winslow Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow wrote the only contemporary account of the Pilgrims' first year in Plymouth, including the story of the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
LIFESTYLE November 10 Meet the American who founded the American Legion, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., privileged to fight and to serve Theodore Roosevelt Jr., oldest son of President Teddy Roosevelt, founded the American Legion after World War I; he received the Medal of Honor in World War II.
LIFESTYLE November 3 Meet the American who defined a new national identity, Noah Webster, New England patriot armed with the pen Noah Webster was America's patriot armed with the pen. He defined 12,000 new words, while using language to establish a powerful new national identity.
LIFESTYLE October 27 Meet the American who conjured up 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow': Washington Irving, first US celebrity author Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to independence with victory over the British at Yorktown.
LIFESTYLE October 20 Meet the American who gave us Nashville hot chicken, Thornton Prince, man of many passions Thornton Prince was a legendary Nashville lothario who was served a plate of insanely hot fried chicken as revenge by a crossed lover. It's now known as Nashville hot chicken.
LIFESTYLE October 6 Meet the American who paved the way for the interstate, Gen. Lucius Clay, master planner, hero of two nations Gen. Lucius D. Clay was called by President Dwight Eisenhower to create a plan to build the Interstate Highway System, after a career of grand logistics achievements.
LIFESTYLE September 29 Meet the American who invented video games, Ralph Baer, a German Jew who fled Nazis, served US Army in WWII "Father of Video Games" Ralph Baer was born in Germany and fled the Nazis as a teenager on the eve of the Holocaust. He invented the first video game in 1967.
LIFESTYLE September 22 Meet the American who snapped the first selfie, Robert Cornelius, Philadelphia vanity photo futurist Robert Cornelius snapped the world's first selfie in Philadelphia in 1839, weeks after after the advent of photograph technology. It was a prelude to smartphone selfie phenomenon.
LIFESTYLE September 15 Meet the American who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy, found ally in nation's top teachers Francis J. Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892 and found a powerful ally in the patriotic National Education Association, which brought it to the American schoolroom. Here's his story.
