The Other Things The Mütter Museum can be a hard button to swallow 21 Jan 201921 Jan 2019 A Pennsylvania farm boy in the 1870s was watching workers drill for oil on his family’s property. A drill bit fell into the well — usually this meant cutting one’s…
Summer In the cool underground of Sudbury’s Dynamic Earth 29 Aug 201828 Aug 2018 SUDBURY, Ont. — There are 4,800 kilometres of mines beneath and surrounding this city. That’s enough tunnel to stretch from Quebec City to Victoria. Tunnels under towns didn’t work out…
The Other Things Circuses, sideshows and marvels at Ringling and in Gibtown 31 May 201718 Jun 2017 GIBSONTON, Fla. It was a bit of a hard sell, convincing me to fly to Florida for just a week. I hemmed and hawed, but my ears perked up a…
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Summer ASL, oralism and Alexander Graham Bell 5 Aug 201412 Aug 2014 BADDECK, N.S. — There's a lot more to this Alexander Graham Bell fellow than telephones. He was a lover of science who laid a fatherly hand on the shoulders of…
Summer Conservative tales and a liberal tour 28 Jul 20141 Aug 2014 AMHERST, N.S. — “Oh, you're on Toryville Lane!” Brian said with delight. “You know why it's called that?” Of course Brian would know. This man knows a lot about the…
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