Maggie's Farm

The father of radio, more or less. Guglielmo Marconi was quite a fellow.

His antennae etc have all washed away now. Ocean beach erosion.

Excellent:

Here is the lighthouse-keeper's house today (the Coast Guard moved the light itself to California):

This little brick structure in the back contained the kerosene, delivered by boat as needed, to keep Mayo Light burning to mark Wellfleet Harbor:

Just past Mayo Beach, through the 1920s, was the grand Chequessett Inn, built on pilings (the stumps of which still poke through the mud) and finally destroyed by an attack of sea ice in the 1930s. Rumor is that rum-runner boats would stop by at night, contributing to the Inn's popularity during Prohibition.

It was built by Mr. Lorenzo Dow Baker, the pioneer of the banana trade from the Caribbean and Central America. On a whim, he loaded his schooner's empty hold with tropical fruit for the return trip to Boston, and made millions. Mainly bananas, hitherto unknown in Boston. Ended up owning plantations all over Central America, and a big hotel in Jamaica. His employees were Jamaicans: They worked Wellfleet in the summer and the Jamaica hotel in the winter.

Baker's business became the Boston Fruit Company, the foundation of the United Fruit Company. A clever Yankee.

Cahokia was a large North American Indian city. Not as large a civilization like those in Central and South America, but still interesting.

Just click on these WW2 photos to see the same places today.

Interesting, but not historically important

Fearless, humble country boy

The Wood Age surely preceded the Stone Age. Heck, we still use plenty of wooden tools, but mostly with something metal attached to them.

Prehistoric wooden tools were generally not preserved:  Four amazing Stone Age sites with wooden artifacts - From Africa, Asia, and Europe, these sites give us a rare window into the ways that organic technology shaped ancestral lives.

There were cultural misunderstandings. There was a big world out there.

What was France thinking? Same thing goes for the Germans. What's the point?

He keeps it simple:

I am impressed by this humble guy. SOG teams in Vietnam, late 1960s.

It's a long listen, but quite a colorful history:

A new study suggests humans arrived in the Americas before the height of the last ice age more than 20,000 years ago

Yeah, they were Russians. Siberians. Lots of ethnic and cultural changes over those years.

This enacted documentary suggests that the English government was not very upset about this horrible incident. No doubt that in 1915, just as in WW2, they wanted the US in the war.