After walking around on this old mudball, called Earth, for 88 plus years and seeing/hearing what is going on these days, I wonder how we survived. We didn’t have TV, smart phones, stereos, cars with automatic shifts, digital watches, electric stoves, clothes dryers, insulated boots, thermal gear, furnaces for heat, heat pumps for heat and cooling, etc., etc. In other … [Read more...] about How did we McGill heathens survive? Keith’s corner
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Keith’s Corner Steptoe Pipeline
As a personal favor to me, this famous international explorer found one of the places where a faucet was installed for the folks of Steptoe to get drinking water. This metal pipeline was built in 1928. I assume the Steptoe folks had access to the wooden pipeline built in 1906-08. There were no wells in Steptoe that I know of. I will have some aerial photos of Steptoe next … [Read more...] about Keith’s Corner Steptoe Pipeline
Keith’s corner McGill Heathen Thinking is Dangerous
Last week’s Newsletter #252 about a unique bridge, started me thinking. That of course is dangerous, especially for someone raised in McGill.With all the spying going on all around the world and one group copying another group etc. etc., I thought that Hollyweird might have had a spy here in the late 1940s. They certainly must have known about the many scientific breakthroughs … [Read more...] about Keith’s corner McGill Heathen Thinking is Dangerous
Winter Memories
Whenever any of us, well seasoned McGill heathens start to describe a winter when we were kids, we quickly see the eye rolls of the younger urchins. They taunt us, with, yah, yah and you trudged through five feet of snow barfoot to get to school, etc. etc. So to start with, here are some facts about the winter of 1948-49. It was the worst winter in Nevada since 1886. The fall … [Read more...] about Winter Memories
Another New Year?? Keith’s corner
What happened to the one we just got, not too long ago? No wonder Father Time’s beard is so long. He is really ripping through the years lately. Am I the only one that feels that way? Maybe it is because I can remember the start of so many new years. It goes with age I guess. Maybe we should ask Lucy Berge about that idea, because she is well qualified. 2024 will be her … [Read more...] about Another New Year?? Keith’s corner