Deborah Kerr's obituary appeared in the newspaper today. I read it and felt sad. A generation of people---influential, culture-altering, gentle boundary breakers---are vanishing and their time is fading away, relegated to the past. It creates in me a sense of urgency to capture them and their time before the chance is lost. I have a deep interest in doing this. It's not gone or lost if we still know it and remember it. Just think about it for a minute. Deborah Kerr was 86 when she passed away. That means she was born in 1921. In some ways, 1921 was much like 2007: * The Boston Post exposed the swindle schemes of Charles Ponzi (namesake of the Ponzi Scheme) * Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize. * Politicians and politics were up to the usual posturing and scandal. Today it's Larry Craig, and in 1921 it was North Dakota Governor Lynn Frazier, who was recalled based on a dispute about the state-owned Bank of North Dakota and State Mill and Elev...