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LEARNING EARTH PROCESSES = GEOLOGY?

October 19, 2023 by

I’ve been learning earth processes since my first rock fight: Sandstone with friends, gravel for the bad guys down on the corner.

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HISTORY CLASSES WITH PROFESSOR JOHNNY HORTON

February 23, 2023 by

Dear readers, history classes are more than remembering dates and kings and generals. I know this because college changed from that to a more comprehensive picture of time and event during my protracted historical education. The standard when I graduated in 1991 included three books: a novel of the times, one writer’s opinion in a […]

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AMERICAN DREAM — 2023: THE GOLDEN RULE

January 16, 2023 by

THE American Dream remains the same: Be Somebody. Be someone you’re proud of. If you’ve been the good example bringing someone back from the edge, keep it up. If you’re the reason someone was out there, keep reading.

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HOW NORMAL HISTORICAL TIMES GO ABNORMAL

February 25, 2022 by

Normal historical times are also called boring, stuck in a rut, and monotonous times. Too much normal can drive people crazy. Nothing ever changes? Or maybe you don’t understand how changes happen. Is everything too slooooooooow for your liking?

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MEAT LOAF GLOWING LIKE THE METAL ON THE EDGE OF A KNIFE

January 21, 2022 by

Meat Loaf came on the radio a couple of years back while I was driving chaperones for French foreign exchange students around town. They were in their twenties, too young to know Meat Loaf. Hi, Quintan. Hi, Marion. I almost pulled over in stitches when they started singing along to Paradise By The Dashboard Light. […]

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HISTORICAL ADVICE: THIS IS WORTH SOMETHING, ISN’T IT

March 3, 2021 by

Historical advice usually comes from a book, or a class where some gray bearded funky old man in a musty suit jacket rambles on and on in a cloud of dandruff. Doing history is different than studying history. History museums Do History for everyone else. Museum visitors walk from exhibit to exhibit, floor to floor, […]

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OREGON HISTORICAL: JOB THREE OF FIVE

March 21, 2020 by

Oregon Historical is the third of a five part series inspired by a twitter post asking to list five jobs. From mill work, to army medic, a museum job was a perfect fit. The idea started from three thousand miles away.

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Historical Debris: A Record Of Time

July 23, 2018 by

    Most museums have a bar they set for accepting historical debris, artifacts, one of a kind deals, and whatever an important person touched or signed.   Paul Revere silver, the last breath of Thomas Edison, the Magna Carta? No one is making any more of that stuff, so that’s a bar too high. […]

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RUSTIC FRUIT RECIPE ON THE WESTERN CHEF TABLE

January 22, 2018 by

  A recipe is nothing more than food history, and nothing says history better than ‘rustic.’   Like the discovery of fire, the first food recipe had to be pretty rustic.   The top cave chef probably didn’t have as much to work with.   No one appreciates recipes more than a history major with […]

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