Today Kevin Hillstrom notes that Crutchfield Electronics released a new catalog with a "3D" cover - unique imaginative and eye catching. And, in the same post, he references a new iPad application: iBreviary. This includes the entire Missal, the content of the Catholic Mass for each and every day, in a convenient iPad form. Perhaps you recall the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, wherein King Arthur deployed "the holy hand grenade..." Cast Mr. Jobs of Apple as King Arthur.
Apple, of course, is in California, about as far west as you can travel in the lower 48 states. But that is not the Great West I have in mind.
One school holiday my daughter and I made a small expedition to Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio to see the aircraft museum there. On our way we drove west across New York State, Pennsylvania into Ohio. As we were driving through the farmland I remarked that in the early to mid-nineteenth century, when people spoke of "The West" they were talking about the area near the Great Lakes. That the association with the Great Plains past the Mississippi Valley and the Pacific Coast developed later.
The Erie Canal made communication possible between New York, the Eastern Seaboard and the "West," much as the internet, iPads and smartphones unleashed new kinds of communication more recently.
My daughter took this all in thoughtfully as the farmland flowed past. Finally she said:
"Yes, I see."
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