It’s Corinne’s birthday and we’ve squirreled away this nutty story just for her.
Month: March 2018
Hippo Meat: It’s What Was Almost For Dinner
Lest you think these are the woooOOOOOooorst of times, let me tell you about a real problem America was facing about a hundred years ago. It was called βThe Meat Question.β
The Past is Female Too: Women Are Animals
It’s March of the Wild and it’s also Women’s History Month. Get ready to meet “the most honest, unselfish, indomitable hellcat in the history of conservation.β
My Humps, My Humps: The Short But Spectacular Life of the U.S. Camel Corps
In 1854, it was time for a big idea β a big hump of an idea. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (yes, that Jefferson Davis) went to Congress to pitch a novel concept that had caught his ear years before. President Pierce and Congress were skeptical, but he left with $30,000 to bring a fleet of camels to the United States for military use.