Affirmation for Success:

The tide of Destiny has turned and everything comes my way.

Theodore Roosevelt admired those who worked hard, pitied those who didn’t

I pity the creature who doesn’t work, at whichever end of the social scale…

No life is worth leading if it is always an easy life

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty…

Historic landowners map of Ridgefield, CT from 1867

Vintage landowners map of Ridgefield, Connecticut as it used to be

Amazing old map of New Britain, Connecticut from 1875

This map shows New Britain, Connecticut in 1875.

The fly fisherman’s ideal estate, a vintage map from 1931

This map by the satirical artist John Held shows the perfect “estate” for the fly fisherman.

5 terrible answers to terribly stupid questions

Your entire life you’ve been told “there’s no such thing as a stupid question”. Well, that was a lie…

33 mesmerizing old pictures of Ireland’s countryside

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, as the vale in whose bosom…