That we are dominantly visual animals is part of what makes the holidays so wonderful. No other season brings together so many visual sensate triggers to memory and emotion. (more…)
In February 1949, a French freighter arrived in New York carrying 49 boxcars filled with gifts of thanks from the French people to the United States. The act was in response to the ‘Friendship Train’ that in 1947 toured the US and collected $40 million worth of food and clothing to aid France at the end of WWII. Every continental US state received a boxcar from the ‘Merci Train’ or ‘Gratitude Train’; Oklahoma’s car was brought to the front of the State Capitol the morning of February 18, 1949. (more…)
