Keep your fun-size chocolate bars. To me, nothing says Halloween more than a bowl brimming with candy corn. According to candy connoisseurs, the tri-color confection was created in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Wunderle Candy Company. Today, America’s...
William B. O’Connor Church Goods opened its doors in 1921 and has been providing a range of religious goods — from sacramental bread, vestments and candles to rosaries, missals and First Communion gifts — to Christian congregations and members of the...
In working with the Women’s Business Council (WBC) for a 25th anniversary promotional campaign, I learned that the organization began in 1986 with six women sitting around a dining room table, discussing ways to increase networking opportunities and promote...
Seven years after the IBM Selectric’s debut, I was a high school Junior, taking a typing-for-business course. All the machines in our typing-lab classroom were gray, utilitarian behemoths until the day the IBM Selectric arrived. Like a tall, dark, handsome...
The IBM Selectric reported for work in American offices 50 years ago on July 31, 1961. By the time it retired 25 years later, the Selectric had revolutionized office work and inspired many of the features of today’s word-processing computers: The...
On January 29, 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union. In honor of its sesquicentennial in 2011, the Sunflower State is throwing a year-long anniversary celebration. Events abound, including the exhibit “150 Things I Love About Kansas” at the...
Think you’re the world’s most globally networked person? Then Western Union wants to hear from you. The global payment services company has issued the Western Union Network Challenge to find the United States’ individual with the most global...
In 1861 when Abraham Lincoln was in the White House, Lewis Dubois Bassett made his first batch of ice cream. The place: The Bassett backyard in Salem, NJ. The method: A mule-turned churn. This month, America’s oldest ice cream company celebrates its...
From inside my office, I watch people on the street, coping with a broiling sun, temperatures in the 90s and humidity off the meteorological charts. But I am keeping cool thanks to the building’s Carrier air conditioning system. So let me send a big shout out of...
On July 17, get your buns to your local Wienerschnitzel for the hot-dog company’s 50th anniversary. You’ll enjoy 61-cent menu originals such as Chili Dogs, Kraut Dogs and Mustard Dogs to commemorate the company’s founding in 1961. But the top dogs at Wienerschnitzel...
