In man’s earliest days of walking upright millions of years ago, he struggled to find improved methods of moving goods and people around. Initially, this was done on foot. People walked everywhere they went and often carried the young or infirm. Goods could be transported in packs worn on their backs or in slings across […]
Today is Father’s Day, and Dave’s gift will be the same thing he got for Christmas: a ride on a steam train. He loves trains, and this time, I chose a different route. For the previous trip, we had a lovely ride through the mountains of western North Carolina on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad.
I must confess that I enjoy watching Time Team, a British television show where a team of archaeologists must uncover the answer to a question and have only three days to do it. It seems most people, like Tony Robinson, the host, expect to hear about beautiful finds, which, in the past, was also what
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