Pulled into port a bit late, so this Tuesday Trivia Tidbit is also late. “A square meal,” “fair and square.” They are terms that brought delight to sailors way back when. Someone who’d done a big watch or extra work usually got a square...
A Pacific NW Thanksgiving– For generations, possibly millennia, Native American Nations would meet at the huckleberry grounds between Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens. It was kind of a huckleberry bee where people, young and old, would pick the abundance, dry them...
In this Thanksgiving season where, historically, women do an absurd amount of work on top of their already absurd amount, I wonder at the four Puritan, and likely Wampanoag women, serving up a meal of thanks for all the Puritan and Wampanoag men and children. Why only...
As a child, I knew Winnie The Pooh was old, historical. I mean really, no one in my childhood days was lucky enough to have a Hundred Acre Woods to play in. We were fortunate enough to have a church down the street with trees and savanna-like grasses, and a creek a...
Got a burn? Slather it with honey. Cut your arm? Get some honey on that. It’s been the go to for as long as people and bees have had a relationship — which is pretty much forever. In American pioneer days, honey saved many a life. And now, despite the...