When a childhood friend asked me to walk the pedestrian bridge over the Hudson River during a visit back to New York, I was excited thinking about the beautiful views I would see. I only knew it as the abandoned railroad bridge. After we moved out of Poughkeepsie in 1987 to find a less expensive... Continue Reading →
The Metrication of America in the 1970s — 5 Questions Answered
In 1976, I was so excited to learn the metric system in fourth grade. My teacher said everyone would need to know it soon. She was serious. We need to be ready. I took one-gram, green, plastic weights and put them on a balancing scale with one-ounce, orange, plastic weights on the other side to... Continue Reading →