It’s inauguration day. Some of the events are calm and predictable; let us pray that all of them are, but as I write this I do not know and wo…
In 1937, as he told it, a newly qualified veterinarian named Alf Wight took a job – hard to find at the time – with a practice in Yorkshire in…
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Cooking programs on television have evolved over the years, not always for the better.
By Dennis E. Powell
By Dennis E. Powell
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By Dennis E. Powell
By Dennis E. Powell
You probably didn’t awaken this morning wondering what George Washington was up to 250 years ago today. But that information is or ought to be…
Someday — it’s on my list of projects — I’ll write a comprehensive history of geegaws and gadgets sold on television, directly to viewers who …
One morning as we spoke after catching a horse that had gotten loose, a neighbor in Connecticut told me he was going to have to get his house …
Sometimes when a person dies it can be good to let thoughts calm a bit before trying to write anything about the departed.
It is said – there’s debate whether it’s true – that upon his retirement President Eisenhower was asked if he had made any mistakes while in o…
By Dennis E. Powell
There sits on my desk a little tchotchke, my share of the booty from my friend John Halley’s office Christmas distribution a few years ago. It…
There are now adults who have no real memory of the events of September 11, 2001.This shouldn’t be a surprise — that day is to 2020 as Pearl H…
There was outside work to be done, but it was so hot and humid that I was inside, reading about the death of the 24-year-old mostly peaceful a…
Why do they bother having political conventions at all anymore?
You’ve probably heard of, and maybe even own, what are known as “active noise-canceling headphones.”
The world’s response to a pandemic is this:
Last week we learned something fascinating and by my lights frightening.
If you’re going to be a comet, there are considerations beyond just surviving a trip around the sun. There are matters of timing and publicity…
Over the years this space has featured the occasional recipe, things I’ve thought readers would like. Based on the response, my estimation in …
Even our most threatening problems and hottest disagreements matter not a whit to the celestial expanse of which we’re a barely noticeable part.