Wonders Of A Well-weathered Skeleton
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
Idaho Falls, April 2024
Hotel: “We’re going to put a window in the bedroom door that leads to the balcony. Then we are going to put a shade over it that can’t be opened. Then we are going to put a very bright light outside that is on all night. Now you can’t look out the window or keep your room dark at night.”
There were a lot of animals in this, “Guess the Skull” game that I didn’t know lived in Idaho.
I killed a wooly mammoth with a pretend Atlanta.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
This is Why We can't Have Nice Things.
A polar bear can eat 12 penguins a day and can sniff them out over 35 miles away. No zoo north of the 27th parallel is legally allowed to keep penguins because of their protected status and the polar bear risk.
Hours in Special Education
Hours in special education and general education shall be divided into (a) those which occur on Thursday, (b) those which are provided by an aide who is three times the weight of the student, (c) those that are provided by professional personnel, (d) fabulous ones, (e) those which are provided by a talking dog, (f) those included in this category, (g) innumerable ones, (h) those which involve the breaking of small objects, (i) those in which the student is wearing a yellow shirt.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
How a Tiny Island Became One of the Most Militarized Countries in the World
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/how-a-tiny-island-became-one-of-the-most-militarized-countries-in-the-world/B1853849-3144-4A43-A23E-18E913B22811
Saturday, March 16, 2024
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Cool History!
On a side street between downtown Helena and the Capitol building, an unassuming former storefront belies an important story for Montana African-American history.
Dorsey’s Grocery Store was once a thriving business run by Walter and Almira Dorsey, two of the town’s leading Black citizens. Both were Easterners who struck out for Montana from Maryland and Missouri about 1890. They landed in the capitol city and were married on New Year’s Eve, 1891, beginning a life together as prominent members of Helena’s Black community.
In a time when neighborhood groceries were common, Walter and Almira launched their own. They first rented a place on Rodney Street and then moved to 843 8th Ave, living in the back and selling groceries up front for 5 years. Their industriousness paid off, giving them the chance to buy a vacant lot down the street at 900 8th Avenue and create a permanent home for themselves, their family, and their business. Walter and Almira Dorsey assembled their grocery store in 1904 by moving a store building and a gracious Victorian house onto the property and joining them together. The W. R. Grocery was soon open for business with a full range of “Groceries, Provisions, Salt Meats, Canned Goods, Fruits, Vegetables, Confectionary, Tin and Granite Ware.”
Almira and family ran the store until 1932, after which it sold and continued as a grocery until 1961. In more recent times, many Helenans knew the store as the Wise Penny, a second-hand shop that operated here from the mid-1960s to 2002, while for a time, the house and carriage house behind held a photography studio and magic shop.
Monday, February 26, 2024
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