Trego's Mountain Ear

I had never had a Type 38 in my hands when I got to Trinidad State – remember, I was teaching soil conservation there at Gunsmith U. and, following in places developed by P.O. Ackley, I learned that the Japanese Arisaka was the strongest bolt action he tested.  As I recall, he chambered the 6.5 Read more

Some more graphs and charts that I’ve noticed: Read more

Some years ago, we were pleased to make the acquaintance of a man willing to take the coat off of his back and give it to an injured pig. I’ve been reminded again of the quality of our neighbors. I recently made a rather foolish mistake with a laptop, and came away from it with Read more

Our Bill of Rights was argued and developed at the end of a period known as “the Enlightenment” – roughly 1600 to 1800.  Even the beginning of the Enlightenment was a time of religious strife – the Thirty Years War, fought between 1618 and 1648, was basically a conflict between Catholic armies and Protestant Armies Read more

Wealthier, urban Americans have access to more local news – while roughly half of US counties have only one outlet or less Sarah Stonbely, Northwestern University Is local news readily available in your town? Do reporters still cover your school board and other municipal meetings? If you answered yes, you are likely wealthier than the average Read more

So I ran across an article written by a guy who first encountered Eric Hoffer’s book The True Believer in 2021.  He described Hoffer as a “dockworker” – back in the sixties, when I first read the book, he was described as a longshoreman and a philosopher.  I strongly suspect Hoffer was an illegal immigrant Read more