LOOKING BACK
by James Rada, Jr. Note: This is part one of a series about goldfish farming in Frederick County. Frederick County’s Golden Immigrants Hunting Creek Fisheries, Courtesy of the Author History is obscure on how goldfish first came to the United States. The first recorded shipment was in 1878, but the specially bred Oriental fish were…
On The Wild Side
What Turtles and Birds Have in Common by Christine Maccabee At first glance, turtles and birds have nothing in common. Birds fly and have feathers; turtles mostly crawl or swim and are featherless. However, even amphibians—such as frogs, toads, and salamanders, who are mostly earthbound—have less in common with turtles than birds do, though that…
