Some time ago, back in perhaps 2004, I was contacted by a few people via the NewRuins contact form, who were working on Robert DiNiro’s production of the movie “The Good Shepherd” which was ultimately to include an all-star cast of Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alex Baldwin, and Robert De Niro among others. This film […]
My grandfather Abe was an old-world business man who could look into your soul by the strength of a handshake and base important decisions upon what he found there. Like many of his generation he did not have the benefit of a complete education. As the only male remaining in the family when his father […]
The interstate highway system changed the United States in many ways. As soon as any particular stretch of highway was completed the impact was immediate and irreversible. Small towns, diners, motels, farm stands and gas stations that sat beside the former two-lane roads through the countryside lost their patrons. The owners lost their way of […]
In February of 1893 a young man named Clarence E. Kinne began working for the Bagley and Sewall Company as a mechanical draftsman. In August of 1938 Mr. Kinne became the President of the company and later retired in 1940. His tenure with the one company he virtually devoted his life’s work to spanned 46 […]
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