"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is somethin...

"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other works of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself." --Thoreau I suspect that some might disagree with Thoreau's statement above, but I won't. Steling W. Sill referred in a talk to Nicolas Appert and likened his development of food preservation, or canning, to the