Kathy Cusick loves Beethoven but has never been crazy about his Third Symphony, the Eroica. She found more meaning in the piece when she learned what was happening in the composer’s life when he wrote it.

Barbara Squire, a resident at the Terraces of Los Gatos, was one of the more than 300 surviving members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots – or WASPs – honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10.

Heading down a lonely Texas highway just after the end of World War II, drivers might have spotted something unusual – an Air Force training plane landing on the road then taxiing up to a gas station for a pit stop.