In 1973, troubadour Jim Croce wrote and sang about “Time in a Bottle.” If he could seal time in one, he explained in song, “The first thing that I’d like to do/ Is to save every day ’til eternity passes away/ Just to spend them with you.” There have been plenty of similar love notes […]
We’re No. 1? Not in World Expos
Posted June 24th, 2011 at 1:50 pm (UTC-4)
Last time, in a grand tour of the six great world’s fairs hosted by the United States in the single decade of the 1930s — Depression times, no less — I pointed out that it has been 27 years since tour nation threw such a party for the world. And there won’t be another one […]
World’s Fairs Then, Now, and Whenever
Posted June 17th, 2011 at 4:42 pm (UTC-4)
Imagine a time of wonderment when lofty dreams and sleek designs and magical technology could inspire a worn and dejected nation to dream. World’s fairs had that power in the 1930s — the decade that bore the brunt of the Great Depression — when six U.S. extravaganzas lifted spirits and gave our people the […]
