It’s not easy to be green dept.: Parents, if you trade in your children’s car seats at retailers, chances are the seats will wind up in a landfill.
And that’s a shame for the planet, since most of the crumbs, snack residue and miscellaneous gack that fill the seats’ nooks and crannies are totally biodegradeable.
Enshrined: The museum that houses the National Toy Hall of Fame is creating the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame will honor classic games like “Pong,” “Super Mario World” and “Grand Theft Auto,” based on things like their icon status, longevity, and get-off-my-lawn factor, which measures the degree to which they mystified, irritated and alarmed old people.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1885, Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published for the first time in the United States.
Also on this day in 1885, Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was banned by a school board for the first time in the United States.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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