Give the critters a brake: The days are growing shorter. More cars are on the road when the sun’s not shining. It’s time for roadkill season in Snohomish County.
It’s also time to give thanks that we don’t live in those parts of the country where roadkill season means it’s time to stock up the freezer in the basement.
Where nobody takes a lickin’: Tonight, PBS begins airing a digitally remastered version of “The Civil War,” Ken Burns’ 1990 documentary.
The remastered version is described as “strikingly different” from the original film. Could this mean that the mournful theme song has been replaced with the jaunty tune from “F-Troop”?
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1927, inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, who was barely out of his teens, successfully transmitted an image via television for the first time.
Young Philo would have accomplished more that day, but he was still living at home and his helicopter mom insisted on limiting his screen time.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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