Union Pacific No. 4014 is the largest operating steam locomotive in the world. Notching 1.2 million pounds and 133 feet in length, the behemoth was one of 25 engines built for UP in 1941. Its normal home is Cheyenne, WY; but the last so-called “Big Boy” made its first-ever trip east of the Mississippi this
“Weird Words” is the name of this column — but I’m sure readers can tell that vocab isn’t the only off-the-wall aspect of these pieces; the writer has his eccentricities, too. Chief among these is an apparent inability to finish any given set of weird words in one column; last month, for instance, I launched
Quick pop-culture quiz: What do the following have in common? Tarzan. Sherlock Holmes. Bulldog Drummond. Charlie Chan. Andy Hardy. Ma and Pa Kettle. And a talking mule named Francis. Well, if you love classic movies, you probably already guessed that these are all film franchises; and I picked ones from the Golden Age — because
One recent Monday out at Muncy’s dandy District, a film-fan friend and I were badly disappointed by Disclosure Day. Ever hopeful for cinematic gold, we shortly thereafter home-streamed the recent sci-fi opus Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. (We’d missed it theatrically — because it played in Williamsport for just one week.) About halfway through,
By Joseph W. Smith III Though we took a hiatus to write about movies and music, Webb’s most recent “Weird Words” column ended with a term that helped young Shrey Parikh win the 98th Scripps National Spelling Bee this year. That was uayeb — pronounced “WYE-eb.” Merriam-Webster defines this as “a period consisting of five