Sears — The Amazon of It’s Day
Amazon is unstoppable. Or is it?
Learn from the past
Ship Ice to India??
Frederic Tudor, a 19th century Bostonian, had crazy idea. He started shipping blocks of ice from New England lakes to the West Indies in 1806. In the 1830s he packed a ship with ice and shipped it around the world to Calcutta, India. Just imagine loading a sailing ship with well over a hundred tons…
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
The 2008 “Indy” movie was entertaining (but not as good as the original) and clearly the result of Hollywood imagination. But the story of crystal skulls is more interesting than that and can highlight some of our current problems with “fake news.” So, here’s a bit of history. In 1897 Tiffany’s and Company sold a…
Japan Bombs U.S. Nuclear Facility!?
History can be an interesting teacher (if we pay attention).
You Salute the Uniform Not the Person in It
Another story of wisdom not found in books.
Don’t be a Dapper Danny
Wisdom is not always found in books.
If You Want to Fish in My Pond, Come by the House First
Oliver W. Cummings Johnnie was as fine a neighbor as a guy could have. When I was a youngster and our families visited, swapped work, butchered hogs together. We also fished and went on the occasional fish fry together. Johnnie favored fishing with a seine, or hogging. I learned to hog fish (now sometimes called…
Brighteyes’ Bad Business
A (bad) lesson from Brighteyes
The Duh-Factor
Another lesson not found in a book
