Often we do not necessarily think about where the things we have today came from. The coffee cup, the fork, the window, the fan, the baseball bat—all of these things have simply become a part of our everyday life, and we do not usually wonder and the often strange and variegated history of such inventions. [...]
Avery Island South of Lafayette
Recently, I took a train trip with a route that stretched from California to Florida, and along the way I met an elderly man headed to Louisiana to see his mother, who had recently turned one hundred years old. It made me consider my own trip to that many-storied Southern state, and what I saw [...]