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...
