Jack Arlon - Jelly Roll and We Be Jammin - Love In A Jar

03/02/2026

03/02/2026

09/07/2025

In the early 1900s, premature babies were often dismissed as “nature’s mistakes.” Hospitals refused to treat them. Doctors said they couldn’t survive. The voices of eugenics whispered: let them die.
But Martin Couney saw hope.
He had no medical degree, no license — but he had courage. Inspired by incubators he’d once seen at a world’s fair, he began displaying premature babies inside glass incubators… at Coney Island.
Yes — among the ferris wheels and cotton candy, tiny lives clung to warmth and survival. Visitors paid admission, and that money kept the babies alive. What medicine scorned as a “freak show,” he turned into salvation.
By the time his exhibitions ended in 1943, Couney’s compassion had saved more than 7,000 lives. And what was once mocked as a carnival act had become a standard in nearly every hospital in America: the incubator.
Martin Couney may never have been a doctor. But he left behind something greater — proof that compassion can defy death, and that sometimes, humanity arrives wearing the mask of a showman.
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~Old Photo Club

11/27/2024

On the shelf cran green tea (sugar free), in the cooler cranberry jalapeño relish, very tasty, small batch.
Love In A Jar ♡

08/04/2024

Extra special ♡

08/04/2024

Mexican Style Street Corn.... not many

07/22/2024

Not many but soooo delish, pickled Italian flat onions with ginger.

06/30/2024

04/11/2024

CS Lewis wrote this in “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature.”