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The Thanksgiving feast—an American tradition that dates back to the 16th century when Spanish settlers held a feast of gratitude for God’s providence as they successfully arrived in what is now Florida. Then in 1620, a large group of Puritans, who fled the religious persecution of early 17th century England, to then eventually end up on our shores. We’re all familiar with this story, as we have learned about the Pilgrims from our earliest school days.
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For this New Jersey farmer, it’s years of patience, endless pruning, and a little bit of crazy.
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In this installment of ‘Profiles in History,’ we meet an innovator whose family emergency led to the creation of the pay phone.
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A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
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There are many reasons to subscribe to your local newspaper. Here are just a few….
START A FIRE — Wadded-up newspaper is the traditional beginning for bonfires, fireplaces and camp grills.
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From his yard, Alden often sees his neighbor Thomas Sewell, a “New-Englander of the elder type” on the other side of his stone wall. Sewell has a “piercing yet so kindly humorous blue eye that loses none of its colour with age but seems to grow more vivid and vital.”
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In 1841, American writer-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) published “Self-Reliance,” placing the ingenuity of the individual above an unquestioning acquiescence to the collective.
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Division of the human family into two distinct political groups began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains in the summer and would go to the beach and live on fish and lobster in winter.
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