December 12, 2020 5 PM Update

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Upcoming Sunsets:

4:30 pm sunset – Monday, December 28
4:45 pm sunset – Tuesday, January 12
5:00 pm sunset – Sunday, January 24
5:15 pm sunset – Friday, February 5
5:30 pm sunset – Tuesday, February 16
5:45 pm sunset – Sunday, February 28
6:00 pm sunset – Saturday, March 13
Daylight Savings Time Begins – Sunset on Sunday, March 14 is at 7:00 pm
7:15 pm sunset – Friday, March 26
7:30 pm sunset – Thursday, April 8
7:45 pm sunset – Wednesday, April 21

Colors of Dusk

Hadley Farm Barn

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The farm where the parking area is a working beef cattle operation. Here is the barn.

Taken on Sunday December 13, 2009 at Mount Greylock.

A Brief History of the Square Steering Wheel | Mac’s Motor City Garage

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Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Square Steering Wheel | Mac’s Motor City Garage

Fairly early in the development of the automobile, pioneer inventors seized upon the steering wheel as an ideal method of controlling a vehicle. (They were borrowing from the marine world, we presume.) But it wasn’t long until creative variations on the theme began to appear—square, rectangular, ovoid shapes. None of them ever caught on, but these unusual forms continue to appear occasionally to this day. Here are just a few examples.