Darlene Gillespie is one of the original Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club. The most popular cast member in the first season, her popularity was usurped by Annette Funicello in the second season...
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Annette Funicello: The Mouseketeers, Part 3
Annette Funicello is perhaps the best known of the original Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club TV show. In addition to being a Mouseketeer and appearing in guest spots in several Disney movies and...
Frances Folsom Cleveland and Ida Saxton McKinley: America’s First Ladies, #24 and 25
Ida Saxton McKinley was the 25th First Lady of the United States. With a promising beginning, she ended up having a tragic life after her marriage to William McKinley. Her husband devoted himself to...
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison: America’s First Ladies, #23
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison was the 23rd First Lady of the United States and a hard-working one at that. Though her health was never robust during her marriage, she took on many duties to make...
Frances Folsom Cleveland: America’s First Ladies, #22
Frances Folsom Cleveland was a First Lady in a very literal sense of the word. She accomplished many firsts for First Ladies while she was one, and after. Here is the interesting story of the...
Mary Arthur McElroy: America’s First Ladies, #21
Chester A. Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, but his wife died a year before he became president. Instead, he asked his sister, Mary Arthur McElroy to take on First Lady duties...
Bobby Burgess: The Mouseketeers, Part 2
Bobby Burgess was one of the original Mouseketeers on the original Mickey Mouse Club TV show that aired in the mid to late 1950s. Bobby was a natural performer from a young age, loving to dance and...
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Lucretia Rudolph Garfield: America’s First Ladies #20
Lucretia Rudolph was the wife of 20th US President James Garfield. A woman of keen intellect, she and James enjoyed a scholarly lifestyle together. Yet, due to James's assassination, she was First...