Chronicles_01

“An injured crow in the grass near the field,” she recalled. “Blood was stark against its shiny blackness. My heart ached for it.”...

24 July, 2025

Totem Traveller: Madame Eleanor Saks tells the story: "I had a sister named Claire. She was a theatre performer in Philadelphia. She had beautiful, long, black hair. She died on stage during a performance when faulty rigging collapsed...

18 June, 2025

July 1951 Record rainfall drenched the state of Kansas. Once peaceful rivers were now torrents, leaving towns and fields submerged under six feet of murky water. Many families found themselves stranded, clinging to rooftops and vehicles,...

16 June, 2025

William Percival Pyle first discovered the Totem on his peanut farm while excavating a new drainage ditch...

13 June, 2025

Trish and I inherited a cottage at Lake George, NY.It's serene, our place to unwind: no laboratory, no testing schedules or reports—just us.We would get up early, sit together, and watch the sunrise burn away...

07 June, 2025

We arrived early morning; sky was clear and bright. Tom went up to the control room to get started while Trish and I emptied the Van. We had never been here before, so this was all...

25 May, 2025

1983, New York Tom sent me this picture while visiting his grandma in New York. He took the Totem with him, and of course, the local kids loved it. The ‘Cyclops' glasses were just a coincidence,...

18 May, 2025

Much of the facility looked like a prison, except for the lounge. It was a fun space, everything was orange and brightly lit. The furniture looked like it was from outer space. We loved it....

15 May, 2025

The Office 1977: I would often see Tom out in the yard on smoke breaks as my window was right there. And the Totem was always with him; it followed him everywhere. We often joked that...

10 May, 2025