Bill Bryson is so good at writing great human interest stuff and in his latest book, "ONE SUMMER-AMERICA, 1927, he has plenty of it.
One story was about radio back in those days. Of course, that caught my attention.
Radio was a new sensation back in the 20's and there weren't a lot of laws that covered broadcasting yet. For instance, anyone could own a radio station. All you had to do was buy the equipment and fire it up. No license needed! One of the first stations on the air was owned by Nushawg Poultry Farms of New Lebanon! Oh, I would have loved to work there!
And, there were some hilarious ideas folks got into their heads about radio. Lots of people complained about this "new evil" because they were convinced that the dead birds they happened to find had met their demise after being hit by radio waves!!
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