Category: yard

Just Neighbors (1919)

Two men who are best friends—a married young man with a dog and his married next-door neighbor with two young children—are trying to catch the train from the city to their home deep in the suburbs, but obstacle after obstacle is jeopardizing the young man’s ability to catch that train. Once home, the young man…


Sabotage (1936)

A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective’s cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel. Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature…


Driveway Glamping: Get Away From It All, Without Leaving Home

As the price of fuel continues to head for the moon, driving the car, SUV, or RV to a faraway campground becomes less appealing. So don’t leave home—just get out of the house. Camping has always been a traditional pastime in the United States, but according to a recent study commissioned by the state of…


Choosing old, new trees for your lawn

Roughly 2,500 trees and shrubbery find sanctuary at Starhill Forest Arboretum near Petersburg, Illinois, where co-founders Guy and Edie Sternberg practice what they promote in tree conservation. Having founded the arboretum in 1976, the Sternbergs kept at least one existing tree near their residence on the 50-acre property. It’s an Osage Orange from about 1930,…


Tactics to deter unwanted pests from your home

No matter whether a region is rocky and arid, humid and sandy, or lush and mossy, critters abound. And as long as they leave well enough alone (i.e. hearth and home and shed, etc.) peace prevails. It is when creepy, crawly or slithery, slimy wildlife gets too close for comfort to human dwellings that territorial…


California Rail Yard Gunman Amassed Weapons Cache at Home He Torched

The transit employee who fatally shot nine co-workers at a rail yard in San Jose, California, had amassed a collection of 12 firearms, multiple Molotov cocktails, and 22,000 rounds of ammunition at his home before setting it on fire, the local sheriff said on Friday. But an FBI official said the blaze that incinerated the…


Victims of San Jose Rail Yard Shooting Identified; Police, FBI Seek Motive

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Police and federal investigators sought on Thursday to determine why a Northern California transit employee opened fire on his co-workers, killing nine people in the latest mass shooting to haunt the United States. The accused gunman shot himself as police closed in on him, minutes after gunfire erupted at about 6:30 a.m. Pacific…


9 Victims of San Jose Rail Yard Shooting Identified; Police, FBI Seek Motive

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Police and federal investigators sought on Thursday to determine why a Northern California transit employee opened fire on his co-workers, killing nine people in the latest mass shooting to haunt the United States. The accused gunman shot himself as police closed in on him, minutes after gunfire erupted at about 6:30 a.m. Pacific…