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This Used To Be a Thing: the Telharmonium

The world’s first “streaming” music service.

This Used To Be a Thing: Newcomb Ball

Before Volleyball was Volleyball…

This Used To Be a Thing: Link-boys

Have torch will travel.

This Used To Be a Thing: Variable Time

When an hour wasn’t really an hour.

This Used To Be a Thing: Chapel Cars

The original Holy Rollers.

This Used To Be a Thing: the Spectro-Chrome

Let there be 12 colors of light!

This Used To Be A Thing: The Glass Armonica

Can’t History Just Lighten Up a Little Bit?

Caffeine and Goal Setting

Like most commute-weary suburbanites, I am a caffeine addict. And like most addicts, when your supply gets interrupted, you’ll resort to…

Brother Helping Brother: A Brewery Offers a Ray of Hope to a Lighthouse

[NOTE: this post originally appeared on my blog The Beerverse. I got THISclose to winning a North American Guild of Beer Writers award for…