Coming back from seeing my new grandchild (our first) this week, I traveled through “Amish country” on Rte. 250 in eastern Ohio. What you see here is an “Amish farm truck.” Internal combustion engine vehicles (trucks, tractors, combines…) pollute. The … Continue reading →
Continuing to catch up on the last couple months… My son and I recently traveled south an hour to Mt. Victory, Ohio, where we did a series of short videos around Amish beliefs (Mt. Victory is replete with Amish people.) … Continue reading →
Jimmy Carter and Dr. Norman Borluag, who helped bring a “Green Revolution” to India and Pakistan in the early 1970s by increasing their rice and other food grain production, began a similar grassroots movement among small farmers in Africa. The … Continue reading →
I spent part of the morning chopping wood and this afternoon the boys and I worked with a neighboring family bailing hay and putting it up in their barn. Good, clean work. The bailing machine was pulled by … Continue reading →
old Ohio service station, circa 1925 I recently wrote a newspaper article about an old area service station. The interview subject said his father used to work on Model T’s and Model A’s “…back in the day.” The Model T … Continue reading →
The Industrial Revolution was wrong. Yeah, we had the technological smarts to do it. But should we have? The Amish, for instance, go through considered prayerful discernment before adopting a new technology. We didn’t. We just rushed madly ahead. [*And, … Continue reading →
Oracle Headquarters Trump announced yesterday that three absolute tech giants were combining to invest $500 billion for AI (physical and virtual) infrastructure in America, so this country could lead the world in AI development. One of the CEO’s at the … Continue reading →
RR spike maul I interviewed local historian Keith Sommer for a newspaper article recently. He has quite a collection of antique artifacts, including a good number of old RR artifacts — including a RR spike maul, pictured here. And he … Continue reading →
photo by Joe Fascinating. I recently wrote a newspaper article about this cabin. It sits on skids in the backyard of a local couple’s place. They live in a modest, two-bedroom house about 25 yards from the cabin. They use … Continue reading →
The average price of gas in 1966 in America (the year this Mustang was manufactured) was 32 cents a gallon, the equivalent of $2.20 today. The average price of gas in America this week just topped $5 a gallon. Your … Continue reading →