April 14, 2010
Got this interesting link to a story about young Japanese girls who are hooked on history. While it's the history of Japan they are attracted to, the parallels to our Western history are compelling.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125898462

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
—John Muir