A single English word can have multiple meanings. This essay jumps into the dictionary rabbit hole concerning a 1943 Webster's New Illustrated Dictionary.

As the armies established their bivouac on Friday night, a wicked storm swept in with wind gusts reported at 71 mph. One of the vehicles zipping around the Captain's Book Shoppe bookselling tent was a Kübelwagen.

The 14-month process of selling eight antiquarian Bibles. Determining when to buy and sell and a vintage book. Solving Mystery.

WWII Remembered 2023: Midwest reenactors browse Captain's Book Shoppe military history.

By Jeffrey A. Rothermel August 25, 2022 Secret rooms were things I read about in Hardy Boy novels as a kid. I spent my youthful summers reading the pseudo-reality adventures by the numerous ghost writers known as Franklin W. Dixon. Later in my life, secret rooms were places we looked for and searched during counter-insurgency operations while serving in the U.S. Army. Today, as a bookdealer my packed schedule had nothing on it about the Hardy Boys and secret rooms. Today,

Cedar Rapids, Iowa August 20, 2022 History on the Cedar River Split-based Operations August 20, 2022: Second World War U.S. Army reenactors on patrol at Seminole Vally Farm Museum, 1400 Seminole Valley Road, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52311. Historians study how our historical interpretations change over time. The history of history is called historiography (the study of historical writing). Not everyone learns from a book. There are various types of learners. Some are visual l

Captain's Log: August 24, 2021 How we remember our past and what we learn from it are interesting topics. How humankind portrays and...

Dealing in recycled thought, occasionally the rare - original thought.

Captain's Log: Stardate 2020: It was bound to happen. The first salvos between the bots and cyborgs... The cyber-sales-cops, (robot...

Using "Catcher in the Rye" we examine: What gives a book value? How and why do books gain or lose value over time?