The silver in a true silver dollar really represents the fidelity to a standard and this coin will be a store of value both in the memory it makes, its intrinsic value as a precious metal, and its part in American history. School is out for summer. Actually been out for a while now.
Meredith MacRae, who played comely country girl Billie Jo Bradley in the 1960s sitcom Petticoat Junction, died Friday from brain cancer. She was 56.
Petticoat Junction (1963) came about after the phenomenal success of Paul Henning's series The Beverly Hillbillies (1962). The idea for the series was triggered by Paul's wife Ruth Henning whose grandparents owned a hotel in a little small town in Missouri.