"The past," William Faulkner once wrote, "isn't dead - it isn't even past."
Faulkner was writing in the context of his fictional world of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, site of the struggle between the aristocratic Compsons and the low-class (dare we call them Red Necks?) Snopes family.
Henry Ford had a different attitude toward the past.
"History," he said, "is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want
tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is
worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
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