History

FARMINGTON -- Pioneer roots to this city do not translate to special consideration when it comes to gaining access to the few remaining burial plots in the city cemetery.

Davie Cooper was struggling to analyze the results of a Thanksgiving Point exhibit on the nature of light.

"Goes," said the 3-year-old, on vacation from Grand Rapids, Mich., and visiting his grandparents in Riverton.

"Goes," he repeated, pointing at a rubber ball small enough to roll under a wooden crossbar.

"Doesn't go," he then said, pointing at a larger rubber ball, too big to roll under the bar.

Davie couldn't read the sign, but he had just learned about the concept of filters.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam, during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought some cigarettes and snapped a few photos.

LAYTON -- Carole Taylor was simply following doctors' orders to keep active and learn something new when, at age 72, she earned a first-degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a form of karate.

ROME -- They were the Summer Games that ushered in the Olympics as we know them today.

Starting 50 years ago on Wednesday, Rome hosted the first Summer Olympics to be commercially broadcast.