Knights Without Parachutes — eugene bullard

French Flying Chicken Coops Our family is building a chicken coop. For chickens. One hundred years ago, when a much higher percentage of Americans lived on farms, chickens were a normal thing to have, rather than a suburban farming fad. Roosters then were not restricted by community covenants, non-laying chickens were probably dinner rather than pets, and coops would have been built out of whatever was lying around, not painted beautifully or constructed to look like hobbit holes. (Besides, nobody had heard of a hobbit, because Lieutenant J. R. R. Tolkien was still busy recovering from trench fever.) The purpose of a...

Did US Entry Help the Air War? Did the Air War Help US Entry? On April 6, 1917, the US entered the war. What effect did the air war have on US entry, and what effect did US entry have on the air war? We talked to Andy Parks about these questions, who pointed to the experience of his own extended family. Many whose views had started out isolationist were pushed toward patriotism and the war effort as German submarine warfare and the Zimmerman telegram made Germany feel like a real threat, even from across the Atlantic. Andy's grandfather Charles Parks...

Boys will be boys, and might survive to be men Perhaps you know, as we do, a little boy who is nice, friendly, outgoing, and also the terror of the preschool. This is the one who makes teachers happy by being home sick, the one who can't sit still, and who could find a way to injure himself or someone else even in a padded cell if he were unsupervised for five minutes.  So it was encouraging to read how Frederick Libby, of Sterling, Colorado, was described in a book recommended by one of our readers, "Fred's father delegated brother Bud to keep...