Buffalo Soldiers An 1866 Act of Congress created six peacetime regiments of exclusively black soldiers. Later, these regiments were melded into two Infantry, and two Cavalry informally called the Buffalo Soldiers. The units represented the first black professional soldiers in a peacetime army. The recruits came from varied backgrounds, including former slaves and Civil War…

  Lynn Walker has held many titles in her lifetime, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother, but in 2016 after retiring from her position of 19 years at Smith and Butterfield Office Supply, she decided to take on another role, caregiver. Walker didn’t know just what to do with her time during her first year…

Mary Elizabeth Porter met her future husband when she was only twelve years old, but she said she doesn’t remember it the way he did. Wayman Porter was seven years older than Mary and worked with a crew on the road by her house. “He saw me playing in the road, but I didn’t remember…

2021 is almost in the rearview mirror. This is when agencies start wrapping up 2021 and look to what they want to accomplish in 2022. This year presented many more challenges than anyone would have guessed, from a continued pandemic to a worsened caregiver shortage to a significant rise in the cost of doing business.…