Using old Nat Geo magazines: When, in response to this story, we asked how you have used old copies of the magazine, we never expected this answer from reader Al Cross: “In 2011 my late mother’s home in Albany, Ky., caught fire, apparently from bad wiring of a light fixture in the ceiling of the dining room. Above it, on a wall of the upstairs hallway, were stacks of National Geographics that she had received from January 1961 until her death in June 2010, almost 50 years’ worth. They were largely burned, but were so dense that they acted as a firewall that kept the fire from flashing to the other side of the brick-veneer home until firefighters arrived. My brother and I restored the home, which our extended family still uses. Without Nat Geo, it wouldn’t be there.”
Today’s soundtrack: Better Things, Fountains of Wayne (live, Sept. 21, 2001)
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