By Tom Rodriguez Every summer during the years that I was growing up in Topeka, Kansas, some boy, usually a Mexican-American, would drown in the
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My Dog Spotty
By Tom Rodriguez I don’t know when we got Spotty but he was always around when we were little kids. I guess Dad thought we
Love Story
By Tom Rodriguez In 1931, when my mother, Jennie, graduated from Our Lady of Guadalupe Grade School, a K-8 all Mexican-American enrolled Catholic school, she
The Devastating Topeka Flood of 1951
By Tom Rodriguez In May and June of 1951, rain fell frequently in central and northeast Kansas. It was in early June, however, that torrential
The Devastating F5 Topeka Tornado of 1966
By Tom Rodriguez On the morning of Wednesday, June 8, 1966, I had just finished working the graveyard shift at the DuPont Cellophane Plant in
The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964
By Tom Rodriguez The second most powerful recorded earthquake in history measured 9.2 on the Richter Scale. It occurred in Alaska on Good Friday, March 27,
Tom Rodriguez... Remembrances and Reflections of My Life 