Saw this verse in a poem which should give pause to those of us who want to travel back in time.
“The past is a cannibal country Where only the dead are happy Those who go there on a journey Return hollow eyed and beaten. Some stay there, And are eaten.” The Travel Advisory, by Michael Perkins
However, I will interpret this as having more to do with personal memories, and not history, so back to the time capsule.
A memoir in letters. Excerpts from letters that a father wrote his children each week for almost 30 years, full of the mundane and poignant, the witty and wise. Stories from a different time, from a small town in Connecticut.
Pleased to announce the publication of my book in May 2021 by the University Press of Kansas. This collection of “stories with a history” narrates incidents over the course of my career in the Foreign Service when historical understanding – or lack of it – got in the way in the conduct of day-to-day diplomacy.
Check out this book on the nineteenth century mills and those who owned and worked in them. Available through Arcadia Press or Amazon.
History All Around 