Bonnie "Michelle" Smith

04/09/2026

What's left of the McCoy Cemetery from the 1800s. History erased.🙁

11/13/2025

The penny costs nearly four cents to mint, more than the coin’s worth. https://cnn.it/4i6kfJ1

11/12/2025

11/08/2025

Make sure to check up on those you love, whether it be family or friends

This time of year can be difficult for people, even more so with how tough 2025 has been for so many. You never know just how much a call/text might mean to them

Remember: you are important, and you are loved ❤️

11/02/2025

Hiii lovelies, my butterflies and pebbles calendar and diary for 2026 will be out next weekend!! Xx
—S.C Lourie

10/30/2025

Join us for The Old Lilly Schoolhouse's fundraising event. It's a fun Halloween evening!Come watch the vintage, 1968 old horror movie, Night of the Living Dead, in the 1912 Art Deco theater at the Lilly Schoolhouse. Sit in the antique theater seats and watch the old spooky classic on our state of th...

10/27/2025

10/11/2025

45 years ago today on October 10, 1980, Pac-Man ( The Arcade Game) was released.

10/05/2025

In 1951, 31-year-old Henrietta Lacks entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treatment of cervical cancer. During her care, doctors took samples of her tumor cells without asking for her consent a common practice at the time but one that raised profound ethical questions later.

Unlike ordinary human cells, which die after a limited number of divisions, Lacks’ cells continued to grow and divide indefinitely in the lab. Named HeLa cells (after the first two letters of her first and last names), they became the world’s first immortal human cell line.

HeLa cells have since played a vital role in modern medicine: contributing to the development of the polio vaccine, cancer treatments, in vitro fertilization, AIDS research, and even studies of COVID-19. They’ve been cloned, shared across labs, and multiplied into the billions, all while Henrietta herself remained unknown to the public for decades.

Today, Henrietta Lacks is recognized not only for her involuntary contribution to science but also as a symbol in discussions about medical ethics, patient rights, and racial injustice in healthcare. Her story reminds us that behind every discovery is a human life.

10/03/2025

RIP, Jane Goodall