re: #65 reine.de.tout

Heh.
My great-great-grandfather, when he arrived in this country from Germany, ended up in New Orleans, where he bought a piece of land on the river, and purchased the rafts that were used to ship stuff downriver, then he sold the wood for building purposes.

He coulda made a business out of what you describe.

My son is really into genealogy, and he found out that my great-grandfather was one of the biggest movers of stolen goods through Michigan and Ohio (and probably Canada) 100 years ago!

He told me, “don’t tell Grandma.”

I asked him, “how did you learn this?”

He said, “Newspaper archives. You think you’re the only one putting microfilm online?”