He was a real-estate agent, fortyish or so, and he came back later when I'd fin­ished my soaking communion with the cosmos. Turned out he was a serious family man, not really a car nut at all, but ...

Arsenal don’t just have a striker problem There’s lot of talk about Arsenal’s lack of a striker, but I think it’s a reductive ...

Nearby are fully restored, actual real-life railroad-crossing lights, in this case from 1945 ... dryly funny 70-year-old. “I had a train in the attic as a kid.” But his collection has grown ...

The hills around the city of Aberdeen, where he grew up, are dotted with sprawling mansions framed around old-growth timbers ... age for the country. Texaco, Gulf Oil and forerunners of Exxon ...

He said to wait on the old box springs until it was dark ... It was 1963, and Chuck’s Texaco Station was at the corner of Clark and Pearson. I was 17. Hoffman Mel was in his mid-40s and appeared ...

Dec. 26, 1918 County School Superintendent reports that there are 66 county schools. Four are high schools, four are semi-graded and 52 are rural schools of either first or second ...

Among the great lyrical wonders of the world are the metaphors and similes of Neko Case. It’s as if she’s never seen anything ...

All three projects were appealed to the Taos County Commission and ultimately landed in 8th Judicial District Court, where two lawsuits have been filed over the Allsup's planned at the Old Blinking ...

For over a century, a small but mighty light bulb in Livermore, California, has defied time, continuing to glow inside Fire Station #6. Dubbed the Centennial Light Bulb, it has burned almost ...

A 10-month-old Massachusetts girl can hear for the first ... Charlie is seen seated on her mom's lap and lights up and turns toward her dad when she hears him rattle a sound book and talk to ...

Kansas City Power & Light eventually sold the building in 1957, though the company continued to lease office space there until 1991 . By 2014, the building’s last tenants left, and work began on ...