History on Display
From the Archives: Road Trip Through History–Jamestown Settlemen
Sometimes life makes it impossible to write blog posts on a dependable basis. This is one of the those times. For the next little while, I’m going to run pieces from years past. I hope you enjoy them, and I’ll be back as soon as I can. Next up, a post from November 2011: …
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From the Archives: Climbing Brunelleschi’s Dome
Sometimes life makes it impossible to write blog posts on a dependable basis. This is one of the those times. For the next little while, I’m going to run pieces from September and October in years past. I hope you enjoy them, and I’ll be back as soon as I can. Next up, a post…
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When Fence Lines Were Phone Lines
One story we learned at the Legacy of the Plains Museum caught my attention so thoroughly that I think it deserves its own blog post. The first commercial telephone company opened on January 28, 1878 in New Haven, Connecticut. It had 21 subscribers. (I wonder who they were and how they expected to use it.)…
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