Year: 2019

November 26, 2019 THE COAL SPEAKER

BY PLANE, BY TRAIN, BY AUTOMOBILE! AMERICA COMES HOME FOR THANKSGIVING 2019!

55 million Americans are on the road this year. The yearly rush home.. but do we know the history of why we even do this anyway?

November 25, 2019 THE COAL SPEAKER

The surprise snowstorm

…there are moments when the weather catches you off guard.. Those surefire times when the rain is pelting your car

November 10, 2019 THE COAL SPEAKER

The 2019 armistice

It was the year 1919.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed.. a cease fire ended hostilities..

World War I had just ended.. Those of us who remember those fun tales from from history class know that it was termed ‘the war to end all wars.’

Instead power brokers created an entirely new version of the Middle East, one that seemingly has doomed the world to eternal conquest and quagmire..

Some of our ancestors who remain present on the planet earth will attest to much worse winters of the past, however.. They will say they had to ‘jump to spat’ at times when they were kids, that the snow was up to the necks and they were still forced to trudge through it to school houses on a secluded country road!

Maybe much of this is hyperbole, but we can look to past headlines to gauge the patterns that once were.. and maybe learn from then to capture a glimpse of life in the patterns of the future..

November 2, 2019 THE COAL SPEAKER

Daylight fading coming.. waste another year

Daylight saving time became a national standard in 1966 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, which was established as a way to continue to conserve energy.