Grandma Joy Had Never Seen a Mountain At 93, She Had Visited All 63 National Parks roamstories.com Joy Ryan had lived more than eight decades without seeing a mountain. When her grandson Brad learned how much of the outdoors remained unf...
Bob and Annette Went Separate Ways as Teenagers and Married in Their Eighties roamstories.com When Bob Harvey and Annette knew each other in high school, they could not have seen the shape their lives would eventually take. Their co...
He Helped an Oil-Covered Penguin Recover Then Dindim Kept Coming Back roamstories.com In 2011, João Pereira de Souza found a struggling penguin near his home in Brazil. The bird was covered in oil and needed help. João clean...
Thirty-Eight Planes Landed in Gander and a Small Town Made Room for Thousands roamstories.com On September 11, 2001, passengers aboard flights bound for the United States suddenly found themselves heading somewhere else. American ai...
Ida Keeling Started Running at 67 Then Finished a Historic Race at 100 roamstories.com When Ida Keeling stood on the track at the Penn Relays in 2016, she had already lived a century. Around her were the sounds and movement of ...
Evelyn Glennie Began Losing Her Hearing—and Changed How the World Listened roamstories.com Evelyn Glennie was already growing up with music when her hearing began to deteriorate. For the Scottish child, the question was not abstrac...
Blood Donors Saved Him at Fourteen—Then James Harrison Spent Decades Returning the Gift roamstories.com At fourteen, James Harrison needed major chest surgery. Donated blood helped him survive, leaving him with a lasting awareness that strang...
