FUEL FOR PIONEERS LIFESTYLE Meet the American who first planted apples in the colonies: William Blaxton, eccentric settler
... LIFESTYLE Meet the American who invented the shopping cart, Sylvan Goldman, Oklahoma supermarket mogul
LIFESTYLE Meet the American who launched the Frisbee, Fred Morrison, World War II combat pilot and POW
... LIFESTYLE Meet the American who made us flip for hamburgers, Louis Lassen, Danish immigrant street-wagon cook
... LIFESTYLE Meet the American who inspired American Legion Baseball, John Griffith, WWI vet and sports pioneer
LIFESTYLE 4 days ago Meet the American who first planted apples in the colonies: William Blaxton, eccentric settler William Blaxton, an eccentric loner and Anglican minister, settled Boston before the Puritans and Rhode Island before Roger Williams — and planted the first apple orchards in America.
LIFESTYLE September 6 Meet the American who invented the shopping cart, Sylvan Goldman, Oklahoma supermarket mogul Meet Sylvan Goldman, an American born to immigrant parents in Oklahoma. As a businessman, his brilliantly simple invention, the shopping cart, changed consumer culture.
LIFESTYLE August 30 Meet the American who inspired American Legion Baseball, John Griffith, WWI vet and sports pioneer John L. Griffith was an early 20th-century college sports administrator whose call to action inspired the creation of American Legion Baseball in 1925.
LIFESTYLE August 23 Meet the American who invented the folding beach chair, Fredric Arnold, WWII hero, innovator, artist, actor Artist and World War II combat pilot Fredric Arnold famously invented the collapsible beach chair, but his most important work was a monumental tribute to American war heroes.
LIFESTYLE August 16 Meet the American who launched modern submarines, John Philip Holland, 'brilliant' self-taught engineer Meet the American who is "the father of the modern submarine." The first U.S. and British submarines, the USS Holland and HMS Holland, were the designs of John Philip Holland.
LIFESTYLE August 9 Meet the American who founded the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, 'put the brotherhood in motorcycles' J.C. "Pappy" Hoel founded the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in 1938. It's the world's most successful motorcycle rally, drawing 500,000+ annually to remote South Dakota.
LIFESTYLE August 2 Meet the American who launched the Frisbee, Fred Morrison, World War II combat pilot and POW Walter Frederick Morrison conceived of a leisure-time flying disc on a California beach in 1937. He made the Frisbee a reality after serving heroically in World War II.
LIFESTYLE July 26 Meet the American who spread global gospel of surfing, Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii’s original Big Kahuna Duke Kahanamoku is the oriiginal "Big Kahuna." He won three Olympic gold medals in swimming, plus became Hawaii's "Ambassador of Aloha" and an international surfing icon.
LIFESTYLE July 22 Meet the American who popularized Chinese food in the US: immigrant chef Joyce Chen Joyce Chen escaped from Beijing in 1949 ahead of the communist takeover of China. She carved out an unexpected career in the United States by popularizing Chinese food.
LIFESTYLE July 21 Meet the American who popularized Latin music, Tito Puente, World War II Navy veteran and kamikaze survivor Tito Puente was born in New York City to parents from Puerto Rico. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he popularized Latin music in the United States.
