Monday, August 17, 2026 — National Thrift Shop Day

One August night, part of a mountain crossed a Montana canyon and began creating a lake where no lake had existed before.

Today we explore why ABBA’s The Visitors became the first commercially manufactured CD, how Animal Farm reached bookstores after publishers were afraid to touch it, and how the Hebgen Lake earthquake permanently redrew the map.

Along the way, we meet the real David Crockett beneath the coonskin cap and the “King of the Wild Frontier” legend.

Familiar things rarely arrive in their finished form, and the details left out of the clean version are often the most revealing.