I previously wrote that fake news is not new, citing a fictitious story from the turn of the 20th century. Another story caught my eye, not so much because it was unbelievable, rather because it had a glaring math error. Poor, smiling convict Tony Gorona The story was of a young man, age 18, who was convicted in 1929 for "several counts of robbery" and was sentenced to 90 years in jail.

We can give future generations a valuable gift of our stories. Even mundane stories about a small part of our lives can be those little gems that reveal important facets of our lives. I came across a lovely collection of stories produced by the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the later half of the 1930s.