Eventually I reached The Honesty Shop--that's the name they gave it, not me--basically a bigger version of the honesty shed which was located in a caravan. I poked my head in to look around and take some photos. A 5 or 10 minute break would be nice as well. The back of the car...
NJ waves from the cow shed. I leave a dozen eggs and a loaf in her kitchen, little Muttmutt tussles with his buddies. Back up the hill into a hot headwind. We push through a wall of cicada-roar into the eucalypt shade. 2100 Little Muttmutt swears at the darkness, running back and...
We can’t leave out a one-room log cabin in Kentucky, where Thomas and Nancy are thrilled to welcome their second child, whom they name after his grandfather. They can little imagine their baby will lead the nation through civil war. Abraham Lincoln, 1809. All these men born in 1809 . ...
It’s as unlikely a name to hear as Judas. The story, and the reason for the name, is found in The Old Testament, in the book of1Samuel; chap 4; The Philistines had attacked Israel and the two foolish sons of the High Priest, Eli, thought that by carrying the Ark of the Covenant...
J.C. Penney Co. operates nearly 1,000 stores across the U.S.—not bad for a company whose founder’s middle name was “Cash.” James Cash Penney was born in 1875 and founded the department store chain in 1902. In recent years,the corporation has struggledwith the rise of Amazon, sudd...
“Name me one thing Jobs invented” is a good way to bring this up. Or, “show me one video of Steve using the terminal or coding something for a computer.” When they realize he’s a degenerate nothing, yet hailed as the (former) kingpin of the most profitable computer company on ...
J.C. Penney Co. operates nearly 1,000 stores across the U.S.—not bad for a company whose founder’s middle name was “Cash.” James Cash Penney was born in 1875 and founded the department store chain in 1902. In recent years,the corporation has struggledwith the rise of Amazon, sudd...
Third Star was the first film we made atWestern Edge Pictures.It was my first time being on a film set where it was my name above the door. I loved it. For all the adventures it lead to… There are LOTS more Third Star behind-the-scenes adventures with Tom, Benedict, JJ, Adam and...
For more than 100 years, Eckerd's was much more than a household name. It started in 1898 in Erie, Pennsylvania, when J. Milton Eckerd opened his first store. Over time the empire had more than 2,000 stores in 20 states. In 2007, Rite-Aid Corporationacquired Eckerd's and converted th...
(“Studd has proclaimed his native name shall be “Bwana”, Swahili for Master. The term is unknown in Bangala.”) Buxton wasn’t alone in admiring C. T. Studd. Even today one finds no shortage of adulation directed toward Studd on the internet and in various biographies written by his...