Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh (R-Illinois) was a no-show at one of his own campaign events on Thursday afternoon, leaving some in confusion.
Walsh, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, was scheduled to appear at the Common Man, a pub in Concord, New Hampshire, for a meet-and-greet for his Republican primary presidential campaign. However, when a reporter for New Boston Post and others attempted to attend the event, they were told no such event had been scheduled.
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West By David McCullough Simon & Schuster May 2019 352 pages
David McCullough has written another superb history, The Pioneers. Admittedly, it is not in the same class as his two magisterial biographies, Truman and John Adams, which would be difficult to match. But it is a wonderful recounting of a story largely unknown to most Americans – the settling of the Northwest Territory.
