Just a few stanzas after Hamlet famously soliloquized “To be or not to be,” his maker, William Shakespeare, contemplated the fact that once a person dies, no living person knows where that departed soul goes:
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns…
That same uncertainty hovers around the final hours of the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon.
We do know that Shakespeare’s remains are buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. Read More...
Adam Johnson, the child of Dave and Sonia Johnson, was a cherished and notable football player in his childhood. He experienced childhood in Sunderland and went to Easington Junior college for his undergrad studies.
The Sunderland football crew had a high respect for Johnson up until he was viewed as at legitimate fault for a sex offense in mid 2015. “Sexual Action with a Minor” was a charge against this competitor. Read More...
TEMPE, Ariz. — Andy Pettitte was set to be Team USA’s pitching coach for the 2020 Summer Olympics, working alongside his former Yankees teammate Scott Brosius, who was to be the manager.
And then the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world. The Summer Games were postponed until the following year. But in the interlude, Pettitte lost both of his in-laws to complications from the virus and felt he couldn’t leave his wife for six weeks to work the Olympics at such a tragic time. Read More...