Things Have Changed

Came across this 2022 article from Car and Driver, " Why Attending A High Performance Driving School Is Worth It ", in which their...

We returned from our month in Dordogne about ten days ago.  A last tranche of photos. One of the two gates through which you can enter Domme...

We've returned to our favorite spot in Europe for the first time since 2022, the little walled town of Domme in southwest France. Some ...

Our 12+ year old dog, Koji, passed today.  A wonderful companion, named for Koji Uehara, closer for the 2013 world champion Boston Red Sox. ...

At year's end I want to give my thanks to Big Medicine and Big Pharma.  Joking here, as I dislike these phrases which are commonly used ...

I was recently privileged to be inducted as an associate member of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, joining the Picacho Peak Cam...

La Roque Gageac is a small riverside village along the Dordogne River which we first visited in 1977.  Our most recent stop was in 2022 and ...

Today is the 50th anniversary of a personal event that is significant for two reasons. The first is that on the evening of July 18, 1975 the...

On July 4, 1905, 120 years ago today, my paternal grandfather Louis landed in Boston, having escaped from Russia.  Six weeks later he enlist...

John Ford's 1939 film, Stagecoach, made John Wayne a star and got Ford an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.  It's also the...

  Back in 2017, THC did a post on the memorable trip he took with the future Mrs THC on the Magic Bus in September 1978, traveling from Athe...

I enjoy the photos at Old School Boston, having lived in the area from 1973 until 1992.  The pictures below are of some of my often-frequent...

Behold! California's first drive-in, in Los Angeles, in 1935: pic.twitter.com/agEggdOtkK — Darrell Epp (@DarrellEpp) February 23, 2025 ...

I was 5 1/2 when we moved from our apartment in Stamford to a house in Norwalk CT in the fall of 1956. One of the things I remember from my ...

Yesterday, I read a piece by Joseph Epstein in the Wall Street Journal, "Maybe It's Time for Jewish Self-Segregation", prompte...

But it’s weird to be a Jew in Prague. While there is a remnant of Jews still living there, you can't help but be struck by the museum-l...

Super 70s Sports strikes again! Yes, Mr and Mrs THC had a waterbed for about 15 years and it looked almost exactly like this one, except it ...

( Barrett Jackson Custom Auto Auction ) I can remember as a child, the Good Humor truck coming up the street on a summer afternoon while we ...

I drove a Plymouth Duster (manufactured from 1969 to 76), passed on down from my dad.   Great car.  Slant-6 engine lasted forever; too bad t...

We just returned from a week long trip to Paris.  Since the fire of 2019, Notre Dame has been converted into a giant construction site with ...