My great-great-grandfather, Allen Alexander Johnston*, was born in Kentucky in 1854. He moved to Dallas before the turn of the century and founded A.A. Johnston Contracting & House Moving sometime prior to his death in 1916. Many early house-moving platforms of the kind depicted in his ad were pulled by teams of horses. How Johnston powered his rig I don’t . . .
Stephen Elliott kicked his “addiction to continual bursts of small information” by spending a month offline. In the current Poets & Writers, he’s got some suggestions for those of us who pass whole days cruising the so-called information superhighway in search of our next fix. Divide your day into online and offline. Studies have consistently shown that people with more . . .
The oldest surviving texts of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths are on display side by side at the British Library. (Via.)
A teacher who nearly got fired after her students published a school newspaper editorial “advocating tolerance of gays” will have to teach a different subject at another school. (Via.)
After talks with his editor, Michael Chabon spent eight months rewriting his latest novel, and shudders now at the thought of publishing the old draft.