Now There’s Something You Don’t See Every Day! The BrickCraft Brickyard

If we are to build a wall against the chaos and the darkness, someone must first make the bricks.

My dad was naturally curious about most everything. It sometimes puzzled me that he would pursue the answer to a question as far as he did. But that curiosity brought him many benefits. He was never bored. He was fascinated with history and current events and everyday life. Driving past Stonehenge during the war, he stopped and walked around the deserted site. He visited a Victorian prison in England that he never forgot and camped near Roman ruins at Bath. He saw the great Normandy invasion fleet on D+3 from the air. His curiosity often resulted in strokes of good luck, and he passed that curiosity along to his sons by example. The trait still brings us good luck, too, verified in this column.