6 thoughts on “Movie of a Man Discovering a Sign of Spring

  1. If I’m reading the date right, this would have been 6 years after Ford introduced the $5/day wage, so a million dollars back then would have been over 600 years of workman’s wages. At 5% interest, a million dollars would have yielded an income of $136 per day indefinitely.

    Which is to say, it’s quite nice to have a million dollars now, but back then it would have made you fabulously wealthy. The Wikipedia says Briggs himself died leaving a $90,000 estate.Report

      1. I was confused by this until I looked up the post where you introduced him as your great-grandfather. Were your grandparents on the winning side, or the losing side?Report

  2. I saw three robins about a week ago. Two days later, we got an inch and a half of snow! Now it’s 60 degrees.Report

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