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.)