Elbert Hubbard was a victim of terrorism.   

He  was killed on May 17th, 1915 in the sinking of the Lusitania - a terrorist act that plunged the U.S. into World War I.  Relatively unknown to anyone outside the dinner speaker circuit, he is often quoted, but credit is usually given as anonymous. You will find several of my favorite Elbert Hubbard quotations scattered around this website.

This rebuild of my website began on September 11th.  As I watched the news, I added links and scripts to the site to track the coverage of the Attack.  Those were terrible days of working through tears...
    
Elbert Hubbard was a country doctor, farmer, school teacher, founder of an arts and crafts guild called Roycrofters, a prolific writer, newspaper editor, and completely self educated.  His only degree was an honorary M.A.  

I discovered Elbert Hubbard at the age of six or seven when I found a quotation on the top of a Sayco Faucet box.  My father read it to me and it sounded so important that I tore off the box top and took it to my mother.  She helped me look up the big words in the dictionary and explained what it all meant.  Dad was a plumber and I grew up working with him.  Sayco Faucets were popular and I continued to read that quotation until I was a young adult.  I memorized it and have tried to apply it to my life.  Not always as successfully as I would like:

"If you work for a man, in heavens name, work FOR him.  Speak well of him.  If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage,  resign your position, and then when you are outside, damn to your heart's content.  But as long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it.  In doing so you are loosening the tendrils that hold you to the institution, and the first high wind that happens along, you will be uprooted and blown away - and probably will never know the reason why."  elbert hubbard

This web site is dedicated to my father, who taught me to work hard and to do my best and life would just take care of itself.  Thanks, Dad!