One thing leads to another...
One of the websites I have Firefox automatically open on this computer is Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac (if only because it doesn't seem to have an RSS feed). He had several interesting tidbits about famous people whose birthdays are today.
-- If the story of Hans and Margret Rey were made into a movie people would probably not believe it.
-- West Virginia-born author John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace, said in that book (which I had to read in school even though I lived in Pennsylvania), "It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."
-- Best of all, he mentioned railroad magnate James J. Hill, probably because the railroad Hill founded (now the BNSF) was based in the Twin Cities. The link provided for Hill is from a website by a professor at UC San Diego (and formerly at CMU and before that at my brother's alma mater, the University of Houston), who has an excellent site about the history of railroads and the major role they played in the development of the U.S. Being from a railroader family myself (my dad worked 42 years for the Pennsylvania/Penn Central/Conrail) I am fascinated by this.
-- If the story of Hans and Margret Rey were made into a movie people would probably not believe it.
-- West Virginia-born author John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace, said in that book (which I had to read in school even though I lived in Pennsylvania), "It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."
-- Best of all, he mentioned railroad magnate James J. Hill, probably because the railroad Hill founded (now the BNSF) was based in the Twin Cities. The link provided for Hill is from a website by a professor at UC San Diego (and formerly at CMU and before that at my brother's alma mater, the University of Houston), who has an excellent site about the history of railroads and the major role they played in the development of the U.S. Being from a railroader family myself (my dad worked 42 years for the Pennsylvania/Penn Central/Conrail) I am fascinated by this.