It is strange. I bet your show is a cosmic collection of people with similar habits. I discovered the magic of old magazines in the periodical section of our local public library as a kid, in college at Auburn’s great huge library i spent many geeky nights “time traveling” with the bound books of LIFE, LOOK, Popular Mechanics, etc. I have found so many amazing things. Pump toothpastes from the ’60’s, radios’s that would last for 200 hours on a couple of D cells from the early days of transistors. If anyone doubts that at least some conspiracies are currently afoot. The internet is far too easy to control, in the past when something was printed and distributed one would have to find every last copy of something to remove it, or change it. I fear that 50 years from now we will regret the concept of centralized knowledge sources such as wikipedia. Think about it. With one keystroke, some powerful person could literally rewrite history. Millions of individual books were not nearly as vulnerable. It is all about control, in the future no one will even own songs, or television, much less news and real information. Perhaps we should all be burying encyclopedias for the safety of the future. Maybe we will need to place with them an instruction manual for how to operate a book.

PS. It’s pronounced Lake H-you-ron. And the Great Lakes are easy to remember with the acronym H.O.M.E.S.

–Lisa, transplant from the East Coast to the Mitten State of Michigan