In the 1950’s, the relatively new medium of television was all the rage in American homes. Families no longer felt the same desire to trudge to their local cinema, when this new “tube” could beam entertainment to them in the…
Genealogy is a fascinating thing. The more you learn, the more you realize we are all interconnected in ways that most of us never would have imagined. In 2006, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. a Harvard professor and writer served…
I never watched The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles when it began airing on television back in 1992. Now, having watched the series, repackaged as a series of films for the DVD release, I regret I didn’t watch the show much…
In this age of 500 channel, cable, satellite and HD TV, it’s easy to forget that television itself is just over eighty years old. Originally invented by Philo Farnsworth in 1927, television took more than twenty years to become a…