https://richmathieson.com/blog daily 1.0 2026-03-13 https://richmathieson.com/blog/chuck-and-fish monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/508c1002-6ff9-4b32-aa9c-7bf5297cdd53/Screenshot+2026-03-06+131430.png Blog - Chuck and Fish - Make it stand out Charles “Chuck” Salmon in the 1947 Port Jervis High School yearbook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/89954550-f2af-42c8-8cb2-ba4f54c00e48/chuck+f2.jpg Blog - Chuck and Fish Chuck Salmon during his football career at Williams College in the early 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/b5070b52-7bc2-48d4-b650-3f7942a0b65b/CbNwrK0.jpg Blog - Chuck and Fish - Make it stand out Cold War rivals on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum: a Soviet-built MiG-15 (left) and an American F-86 Sabrejet (right). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/7ebcf2b1-08f3-4e94-9f1a-87eadaa8926a/TeamPhoto19582.jpg Blog - Chuck and Fish - Make it stand out Members of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pose in front of an F-100 Super Sabre at Nellis Air Force Base in 1958. Capt. Charles “Chuck” Salmon, known to fellow pilots as “Fish,” stands third from the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/4ea4d730-f4ec-46c0-bff8-dc79b206df61/Chuck+_Fish_+Salmon+copy.jpg Blog - Chuck and Fish Capt. Charles “Fish” Salmon during his time with the Thunderbirds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/b005625a-94ef-474f-af30-18b6cac94c4a/chuck+t-33+++team-1.jpg Blog - Chuck and Fish - Make it stand out Capt. Charles “Chuck” Salmon, far left, poses with fellow U.S. Air Force Thunderbird pilots https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/e8c7d630-cb2e-4069-9d55-ec7afdefad1f/salmon-drive.jpg Blog - Chuck and Fish - Make it stand out Salmon Drive at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, named in honor of Thunderbird pilot Capt. Charles D. Salmon. https://richmathieson.com/blog/ghiamh5vv1y6cev8tyal9tstm8plmg monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/3f5ec789-709b-4ada-9b50-64d0331178bf/Attack.jpg Blog - The Snow at the Palisade - Make it stand out A modern historical illustration by Francis Back depicts the predawn attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, on Feb. 29, 1704. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/d4659c8b-86c1-4f56-aac2-e22cba2eba23/Rev-John-Williams-house-mh-summer-2023-1024x695.jpg Blog - The Snow at the Palisade - Make it stand out Attackers surround the house of Deerfield minister John Williams in this engraving from the frontispiece of “The Redeemed Captive,” his famous account of the rai. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/1edf0168-fe3c-4c38-bf0e-1ad066663084/lippincott.jpg Blog - The Snow at the Palisade - Make it stand out An early 20th century illustration by Walter Henry Lippincott depicts the predawn raid on Deerfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/3787dbfd-042d-42fd-a9ca-41a504c4d66e/nims+house1.jpg Blog - The Snow at the Palisade - Make it stand out The Nims House at 58 Old Main Street in Deerfield, photographed in 2023. The current structure stands on the site of the earlier home owned by Godfrey Nims, which was burned during the 1704 raid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/75c322ec-edc3-45f6-b239-1f1a19b3310d/Godfrey+Nims.jpg Blog - The Snow at the Palisade - Make it stand out The Godfrey Nims memorial boulder in Deerfield, photographed in 2023. The 7-ton granite stone was dedicated Aug. 13, 1914, by the Nims Family Association. The bronze plaque recalls his arrival in Deerfield in 1674 and the devastation of the Feb. 29, 1704, raid. The boulder, brought from Roxbury, New Hampshire, stands on land that was once part of the original Nims homestead near Old Main Street. https://richmathieson.com/blog/the-man-who-never-went-to-the-track monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/d0570f73-e6a3-47af-9b4c-7851ec98c208/the-king-of-the-turf-st-julien-driven-by-orrin-a-hickok-by-currier-ives-after-scott-leighton.jpg Blog - St. Julien, Raised Far From the Track - Make it stand out A hand-colored Currier & Ives lithograph depicts the champion trotter St. Julien, driven by Orrin A. 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He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6930af2e2e9a077685c509ad/10b66376-64f5-45fb-abb2-634131a13713/60+Bartlet+St.%2C+Andover+_McCurdy+House_.jpg Blog - The Kindest Man on the Hill - Make it stand out The white-clapboard house at 60 Bartlet St., captured long before the modern additions. 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