Sunday Firesides: Go 3 Feet Further

There’s a story from this country’s old-time mining days that tells of a man who found a vein of gold in the mountains of the West. He staked a claim and went to work to extract the glimmering ore. But shortly thereafter, the vein of gold disappeared.

Day after day, the man continued to pick, hack, and drill, carting away trolley after trolley of rock fr…