Today in 1937

Like most of my readers, I love the historical listing of light and fun facts. Did you know that on this date, March 26, 1937, spinach growers in Texas erected a statue of Popeye as a testament to him as a spinach icon? Now even our very young readers know that Popeye is a one-eyed sailor whose escapades with his companions are still entertaining today; and are not just a mechanism to make kids each spinach. What many of us don’t know is that his character was created for a comic strip in the...