Zack Hill by John Deering and John Newcombe for September 06, 2023

They are now there just to class up the bookshelf.

Wonder if they are Funk & Wagnalls?

He’d have a field day in my house! LOL

Those books have more honest truth and history than gaagle ever will.

I had a set of encyclopedia’s of my fathers from the 1930’s. In comparing them to my mid 1960’s set of World Books, it was quite interesting on how things changed. For example how the old set described Germany around the time of the rise of the Nazi’s and before the war. It was neutral to slightly positive at that time. It’s a cautionary tale for what you read today, and how it will be seen 30 years in the future.

Encyclopedias started deteriorating when Microsoft introduced Encarta. Britannica Online had not updated Canada’s new leaders 6 months after the election.

Soo many good memories about reading the encyclopedia as a child or a teenager.

My family used to own a set of Encyclopedias. My parents would use them as an excuse to hog the internet lines until I pointed out I couldn’t use them for study because they still said the USSR existed.

You do know that we “DID” survive and functioned ………… pretty well “BEFORE” Google ……. :)

I assume his mother inherited the house and likely the encyclopedias and Barry Manilow records came with the house. She would not have been an adult until year 2005+.

My parents had to buy one volume a month to equip our home with the minimum encyclopedia for my budding genius. :)