The Maddest Sports Bet: the Barclay Challenge January 12, 2018
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
It is well known that there was a great deal of walking or pedestrian enthusiasm in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Usually, these races were a question of going from, say, London to York in x number of hours or of beating y over the same distance. However, Beach recently ran across the single weirdest race […]
Immortal Meals #25: Champagne, Nests and the Courthouse September 4, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beach is not sure why he finds this meal so appealing, but it is probably something to do with the disregard for frontier law and the ability of Texans to improvise entertainment out of a goose, a shack and some eggs. Sherman is and was the capital of Grayson County in Texas. In 1858 a […]
