Dave's Notes from All Over

Not only did Thomas Edison electrocute stray dogs (bought for 25 cents from locals), he also didn't make the first voice recording. The ...

In 1951 Norm was a member of the Audio Engineers Society: http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/aes-members-1951.pdf JACOBOWITZ. NORMAN B. (M). Ch...

UVM graduate, Samantha Hunt, has become an expert on Nikola Tesla. She has written The Invention of Everything Else , a novel based on the ...

I noted earlier that somewhat over a year ago I got an email from David Bonner, who was writing a history of children's records based ar...

I was looking for my cousin Martha Jacobowitz. So I Googled the name. I got a list of people murdered on Kristallnacht: http://www.kristalna...

The very first thing that happened in the new office was that I flushed my keys down the highly efficient toilet. They are already in Lake C...

Saul sent me a link to notes from the world premiere of The Straw Market, a play by William Jay Smith, the Writer in Residence at Hollins Co...