Portraits on Tin

John Coffer turned his back on modern times to wander America in a wagon pulled by oxen, stopping only to take portraits with his antique camera.  Coffer traveled at two and a half miles an hour for five years. 25 states. 10-thousand miles.  He crisscrossed...

Road to Nowhere

You ever wonder why cowboys seldom sing songs about a bus?  Buses fill the lonesome spaces the stage coach left behind.  Yet, there are no tales of Bus drivers derring-do. No teary eyed nostalgia.  Bus drivers may not have settled the west, but they...

Millionaire Monks

Father Bernard McCoy found printer cartridges “sinfully expensive.” So he convinced his fellow monks at Our Lady of Spring Bank Abbey to form a company called Laser Monks, vowing to ship all sorts of products for less. The monks became millionaires. It didn’t last....