TAKE A WHIFF OF THAT!

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1ST., 2020
    TAKE A WHIFF OF THAT!

  During these oppressively hot and
humid days we've had lately I'll wager
more than one of you, like me, has
longed for a breath of cool dephiogisticated
air!
    Never heard of it? Oh. You might know
it better as oxygen.
    It was "discovered" on this date, August
1st of 1774 by English Chemist Joseph Priestley.
Now since I assume he was breathing it even
while experimenting perhaps "isolating"
oxygen might be more a better description.
    Besides being a scientist Priestley was
a theologian who fought for religious freedom
at a time of political unrest in England.
    His controversial views lead to the burning
of  his home and his church! And that lead him
to Pennsylvania. His home still stands in the
community of Northumberland, right across
the the Susquehanna river from Sunbury.
      I suspect the air seemed sweeter there.
So take a deep breath and remember
fellow Pennsylvanian Joseph Priestley on
this historical date.
      Hope you're breathing easy and that
all your NEWS is good!