Post by Grubb.
In a section of Córdoba’s Bicentennial Park there is an array of large candy-colored rings where, if you go back up to a hundred years, you can find the ring acknowledging the year of your birth. By the date, there is a one line inscription calling attention to a significant development that took place in that year.
Ella and I looked for 1950. It turned out to be battleship gray, so our birth ring wasn’t one of the more lively Lifesaver colors.
The big thing that year according to the Bicentennial Committee? Nuclear power. I would have preferred a mention of how the New York Giants signed Willie Mays that year, but there would have probably been objections from members on the committee favoring Joe DiMaggio’s penultimate season, so I understand: go with big science.