My Neighbor Down the Street Has a 2002 Ford Think For Sale

Not every day can you test drive an electric car in your own backyard. The lake is only a pond now - a shallow pond with the drought.

If you have been reading my blog - you know that I am an electric vehicle freak. I "think" it is the absolute way of the future even though I have been up to my ears in gasoline and motor oil for years.


My first car was a 1956 Volkswagen Convertible that was not much bigger than this Ford Think. I got it for $100 and it was so rusty I felt like Fred Flintstone running.


The Think looks like a glorified golf cart but if you really examine it closely you will see that it has all the safety features of a "real" car. In 2002 and 2003 - Ford was going to go into the electric car business. But some people in the front office were swayed by something - and pulled the plug. The public was upset when they started crushing all the Ford Thinks - so they stopped that action - and exported all the leftovers to Norway. I am certain they just did the destruction there.


Ford did a nice job of designing it.


The Think has three main ingredients - batteries - motor - and controller.


I took it for a nice long drive around our neighborhood. I noticed it is much more powerful than my Club Car golf cart. It has six 12 volt batteries for 72 volts compared to my golf cart's four 12 volt batteries for 48 volts. It could go 25 miles per hour versus my 16 mph Club Car. It could take the hills with ease - I even drove it down to our lake on a dirt road.


According to the net - they cost about $6000 new in 2002. They offered a four seater for $8000. They remind you of the GEM Electric Car that Chrysler made. 


This vehicle can be licensed for the street but only streets of 35 mph or less. You can't go on super highways. To qualify for a license it has - headlights - taillights - mirrors - windshield - windshield wipers - seat belts - turn signals. It has a regular Florida title.


The car can be seen in Edwin Lott's front yard on Circle Drive just up the street form us. He is asking $3700 for it. He said he just bought new batteries.


The Ford Think was purchased first by Big Bend Crime Stoppers. It is a loosely knit group of Neighborhood Watch Clubs run by the Sheriff. Public education is a vital component in our local effort to keep the citizens of Leon County informed about their role in the battle on terrorism. Law enforcement agencies depend on alert citizens to identify and report things that seem out of the ordinary in their neighborhoods, communities, and places of business. In essence, citizens act as Law Enforcement's "eyes and ears." By working through Neighborhood Watch networks, the public can play a potentially crucial role in the detection, disruption and prevention of terrorist acts. I have a feeling it was bought with "9-11" money.


Edwin bought it at a public auction at the Florida State University Warehouse. He had it about two years and wants to get something else.

The Ford Think has a windshield and wiper.

It has a gauge telling you how much battery is left.

Notice the Ford logo on the steering wheel.

Gas - brake - steering wheel - key.

It is on Circle Drive which intersects Seminole Drive.

Today JP and I Bought Two Cars

This is JP Brown examining a basket case Austin Healey Sprite.

This MG has not moved in years - but all the tires still held air.

This is what an 1962 MG Midget looked like new. It cost $2400.

This is the Austin Healey Sprite in front of my house. We had just discovered the right rear wheel smoking.

One thing nice about junker cars in Florida - the bodies have very little rust compared to cars in Pennsylvania where they throw so much salt on the winter roads.

Lulu is away in Limerick - Ireland. So it was a perfect day to find some old cars. Yesterday - I saw a guy selling an old MG Midget for $500. I sent the link to JP Brown my car nut friend that has restored quite a few old British Sports Cars. He wrote back this morning asking me I wanted to go along to do some dealing for the car/cars. He dropped by at 4 PM and away we went. The MG was on the other side of town. We arrived at the old Florida Cracker Style home of Mark Evers. He had some really neat toys out in his yard. When Mark came to the door - he and JP looked at each other funny. JP had purchased an old British car from Mark 30 years ago! It's the small world of American pickers. Mark had two old sports cars for sale. Neither had moved in years. One was a 1962 Austin Healey Sprite - the other was a 1963 MG Midget. Although the cars had different names - they had the exact same body - sort of like a Buick and an Oldsmobile. JP opened the back of the truck to show a tow bar that was drilled precisely to fit these old sports cars. Two bolts removed the front bumper - and everything bolted up nice and snug. We filled the tires with air - and attached the portable tail light bar - and we were off. We towed the MG first the 10 miles back to JP's home. Then we returned for the Austin Healey. This one was a bit lighter because the engine was missing. On the way home - the right rear wheels started to smoke. It appears that a brake or a bearing was burning. JP dropped me off at my house - and had another 5 miles to go to be safe at home. The guy wanted $500 for one car - we ended up paying $300 total for both of them. Some of the cars that JP has restored are beautiful. I have no doubt that one of these cars will be a work of art. The NADA book sales the cars sell for between $5000 and $15,000 when restored. I am guessing that JP could make much more money just parting out the cars. The deal also included two extra unused front fenders.

NADA book prices on the cars.

For the record and for Lulu who is already fast asleep in Ireland - I did not buy the cars - I just helped with the deal. They are not mine.

Taking pictures for Harry

I (Lulu) am here in Ireland without Harry. In his absence I will take photos that he would normally take. Here are three examples. One is a series of plugs in the hotel room. There is an option for a U.S., European and UK plug. I didn't realize there was a U.S. option until I already set up my adaptor and frankly didn't expect to see one. Marcia pointed it out. The other photo is one of those 220 tea kettles which Harry likes because they boil water so fast. A few years ago he bought one in London, brought it home and hooked it up to where a dryer was in our house. The final picture is of a vending machine down the hall which contains soda, snacks, detergent and condoms all in the same machine. Enjoy!

Lulu is Off to Ireland for a Week

Dr Lulu on the way to Ireland

A little Iris diddy about N---- Spain

I just put my lovely wife Lulu on a plane to Ireland. She will be away a week and I am alone to care for myself. Lulu travels a lot - usually I go with her - but sometimes it is just to hard to keep up.

Some folks ask me how can we manage to travel so much. I assure them - 95% of the time someone else is paying the expenses. They say you aren't an expert unless you are 100 miles from home. If that is the case - Lulu  is a super expert.

In the last two years she has been to 35 states - Germany - France - England - Brazil - Australia - New Zealand - Hawaii (I know it is a state) - Canada - Portugal - Italy - and even Tamaqua. In the case of Germany and Brazil - she was a guest of the state - they paid everything. In Australia - and now Ireland - she is presenting at a conference. Sometimes she represents the American Association of School Librarians and they cover her nut.

In July - we all go to London for 5 weeks - where she is employed by FSU. Next - she is setting up a program in Panama for FSU.

She is a certified A-1 gypsy and a true Everhart. Have computer will travel is the card of this woman. This time her whole presentation is on an iPad. The laptop stayed home.

Although whenever I travel with Lulu - all her freight is paid - I have to pay for my plane ticket and food. And with all the frequent flyer miles and bump tickets I get - I go for free often. But sometimes it is just too tiring. On July 1st - I fly to London - and that is a long flight. Spring in Florida is just so beautiful - I chose to stay home this time. I can use the $1200 we would spend on my ticket - doing something else - like buying a truck on Craigslist.

Dr Marcia Mardis - another library science professor at FSU is traveling with Lulu and also presenting at the conference. They will have a great time.

Florida State should take look in the mirror

written by Scott Michaux of the Augusta Chronicle

Let Florida State win one basketball title and suddenly they're too good for the Atlantic Coast Conference.Well it seems Florida State – which last won the ACC football title in 2005 and has lost to Wake Forest four of the past six seasons – is clearly too good for its current stablemates and wants to explore the possibility of trying to compete with Texas and Oklahoma instead.

Unless you live in a cave with no cable, satellite or wi-fi, you've probably heard that the Seminoles have launched a full-scale media campaign on the topic of jumping ship from the ACC toward the greener gridiron pastures of the Big 12. That's right, the same Big 12 that's now 10 because it lost four teams and very nearly imploded each of the past two years.

What's more, rumor has it that Florida State and Clemson (or Miami) might be some kind of package deal to make the Big 12's name make sense again. To Clemson's great credit, its president, Board of Trustees chairman, director of athletics and football coach have all had the good sense not to utter a single statement with the words "big" or "twelve" in it since all this mushroomed last week.

Florida State was not so discreet. As ACC officials prepare for their annual spring meetings, Florida State Board of Trustees chairman Andy Haggard threw an incendiary device into the mix with an emphatic rebuke of the new TV deal that he feels falls short of the desired mark. His poor familiarity with the facts didn't seem to matter.

"On behalf of the Board of Trustees I can say that unanimously we would be in favor of seeing what the Big 12 might have to offer," Andy Haggard told Warchant.com.

That led to football coach Jimbo Fisher chiming in his support for exploration and school president Eric Barron trying to cool heads with counter-arguments in e-mails to riled-up boosters.

"Florida State is not seeking an alternative to the ACC. Nor are we considering alternatives," Barron said in a statement to reporters after his bullet-proof rebuttal points were leaked. "Our current commitments remain strong."

This seems like a good place to interject one rather salient point – Florida State and especially Clemson will not become Big 12 members. No matter how much the fans might clamor for something new and exciting, the negatives far outweigh the perceived positives of secession from the ACC.

What all this really smells like is some kind of plot to gain leverage. Despite the reality that football drives the financial bus, Florida State, Clemson and some other schools still chafe under the conspiracy notion that Tobacco Road is pulling all the strings in the ACC.

Of course, the way to solve the North Carolina-centric problem would be to join a conference where Texas is truly the king and earns disproportionate spoils from its brethren. Yeah, that makes sense.

All of this stems from dissatisfaction with the ACC's newly-signed 15-year, $3.6 billion television contract with ESPN. The league spun all of the positives about an average $4 million per-school annual increase (neglecting to point out that it's backloaded), but the truth is it isn't the kind of money that football-rich conferences like the Southeastern, Big Ten, Pac-12 or even what's left of the Big 12 can and will get.

And who's fault is that? If Florida State is unhappy about that, it can look in the mirror to find the problem. The Seminoles' demise from a once respected national football brand – in the days when it didn't complain about running roughshod over its inferior conference mates – is one of the prime reasons that the ACC isn't as financially attractive to the TV networks. That Florida State can no longer beat all the teams that can't beat the bigger teams from other conferences makes them a curious stone-thrower in the ACC's glass house.

The ACC is 2-13 in BCS bowl games – a sorry standard for sure that played into the TV negotiations. But the conference is no athletics patsy, either. The ACC has aggressively positioned itself through expansion to remain a relevant player in the constantly realigning landscape. Its core has held strong thus far. It retains an academic standard that could prove to be the pivotal piece in eventually landing the biggest fish out there – Notre Dame.

You think that might make a difference in the TV contract renegotiations?

Florida State fans didn't stop showing up at football games because of the competition. Doak-Walker Stadium was filled when the Seminoles were beating up on the same teams they're consistently losing to now. You want to fix the problem? Just win.

But forking over upwards of $20 million to gain an extra couple million a year in the Big 12 isn't going to fix anything. And it sure isn't going to make them any more likely to gain a place in the coming four-team playoff.

All it would do is raise expenses. Tallahassee is a long way from everything, so the travel issues might not seem like a big deal to folks marooned in the Florida Panhandle. But don't think for a minute that Clemson – a charter member of the ACC – is going to give up bus trips to places like Atlanta or Raleigh so it can fly its tennis and soccer teams to Ames, Iowa, and Lubbock, Texas, and everywhere else in the geographically-challenged Big 12 footprint.

Perhaps this is all posturing to push ACC commissioner John Swofford into finishing what he started with his expansion plan and bring Notre Dame into the fold. Perhaps they just want to feel more loved. Perhaps they really want to see if the SEC might consider growing to 16 teams and are just using the Big 12 as bait.

Whatever the motive, the prudent option – and the one Clemson will ultimately stick with in the end – is patience and commitment to the conference they already have.

Build winners on the field that don't get embarrassed on the big stages, and the money will come.

Touring Vermont - Stowe Mountain Lodge - Von Trapp Lodge - Stowe - Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Factory

This is the Stowe Mountain Lodge. On this day - it was sunny and we were virtually alone there for lunch.

The north face of Stowe Mountain has about 8 trails. There was still a little bit of snow on some of the slopes. My iPhone said we were at about 1600 feet above sea level.

Lulu loves prowling the halls of the Von Trapp Lodge. Supposedly - one of the kids is still alive and he runs the lodge. The family moved there to a farm house in 1942 - later building the lodge and entertaining there.

This is not the famous Ben & Jerry Ice Cream - camper. The original burned up on a cross country tour. They were returning home from California. The burning of the van gave them a ton of publicity.

Lulu completed her Burlington conference presentation by noon. So this afternoon we had some time to tour on our own.


We took a winding two lane road to the top of Stowe Mountain. The road through Smuggler's Notch dwindled down to one lane where you had to back up if someone was coming the other way. The giant skiing lodge was empty there - but the restaurant was open and we had a nice lunch there - virtually alone.


Not too far down the road was the Von Trapp Lodge. The famous Sound of Music family settled here when they ran from the Nazis in Austria before World War II. This lodge was pretty empty but Lulu loves to look at all the pictures on the walls there. She is an endless romantic for the Sound of Music story. A few years ago - we visited Austria and took the tour through the original Sound of Music area.


Next we walked the streets of Stowe - just shopping and enjoying the 65 degree weather and clear blue skies. The Green Mountains are certainly very green this time of year.


Finally - we rushed to beat the clock to 5 PM and the Ben and Jerry Ice Cream Factory. This is the oldest of about 6 factories they have now. In the tour - they show you a video - they give you a history lesson - let you watch them making ice cream (not today - they were cleaning the machinery) - and finally give you a sample. 


One of my favorite stories is about the Ben and Jerry Ice Cream Truck. They bought  a giant Travco motorhome to cross the country hyping their ice cream. They go a lot of good publicity - especially when the camper exploded and burned to an ember in Cleveland.


We are back at our Burlington hotel. Saturday morning early - we leave here early - getting home in Tallahassee around 2 PM. 

Stowe Mountain Mt and Lodge

We drove two lane roads about 30 miles east of Burlington. We are at 1600 feet on the side of Stowe Mt. There is still a little bit of snow - but this giant hotel is empty.

The town of Stowe is another 10 miles down the other side.

We are having lunch here late.

Luke wants to have supper at the Von Trappe resort. This is the famous Sound of Music family. They moved here when they left Austria. Maybe Lulu will sing to me again.

Lots of Rain in Tallahassee

We have been away from Tallahassee for a week. Friend George Dawson says it has been raining a lot of the time. On Tuesday - we got one inch of rain in one day. This is the rain gauge as proof.

We really need the rain back home. The lake behind our house is only a pond now. The water table is so low that the lake is about 8 feet lower than normal. If we do not get more rain soon - it is going to look like a dried out sink hole. I have been mowing the grass on the lake bed.

Pragmatist John Dewey Lived In Burlington Vermont

John Dewey

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist andeducational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology. He was a major representative of progressive education andliberalism.^[2][3]

Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including experience, nature, art,logic, inquiry, democracy, and ethics.

In his advocacy of democracy, Dewey considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—as being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality. Dewey asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully formed public opinion, accomplished by effective communication among citizens, experts, and politicians, with the latter being accountable for the policies they adopt. - Wikipedia

 The Vermont Catamounts are a very strong hockey team.

 Maple Syrup and maple sugar candy are major products. I could eat that candy all day.

 This is part of the downtown mall in Burlington.

 The downtown street is covered with hand laid brick.

 John Dewey was born here.

This is John Dewey's birth place.

Lulu is doing a presentation at a library conference at Champlain College - which is right next to the University of Vermont in Burlington. Just down the street is the birthplace of John Dewey - an educational philosopher - and pragmatist.

Burlington is the largest city in Vermont - only about 45,000 people. 1/3 of all Vermonters live in this metropolitan area. Burlington is the smallest "largest city in the state" in the USA. It is right on the shore of Lake Ch-amplain which drain north into Canada and the St Lawrence River. Montreal is only 90 miles away.

Burlington is known mostly for skiing and the home of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. It is a pretty - very green town - this time of year. It is a lake front community with a ferry that crosses over to Plattsburgh - New York. The main downtown is up on a loft above the lake. The old main street is closed to vehicles and was made into a walking mall. The University of Vermont has a strong influence on its economy.

Six Days in Providence With the Grandkids

Jack took this picture of Drew and us. 

Two grandparents and two grandkids.

We just had six wonderful days with our grandkids in Providence RI. It is the first time they were away from their parents for so long.  Drew and Robin were visiting Durham NC and Richmond VA on family business.


The kids are growing so fast. They are 3 and 1 now. This is probably our last trip to Providence. Next time we will see them we will be in London in July. Lulu teaches a course over there for FSU. We will all stay on for the Olympics.

Tamaqua's George Wenzel Died

May 10, 2012
George Wenzel Jr. passed away peacefully on Thursday in Gnaden Huetten Hospital, Lehighton.



George was born in Coaldale, April 23, 1925, a son of George W. and Anna Tomko Wenzel. He graduated from Coaldale High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society and the football team. George would want you to know that in 1942 Coaldale beat Tamaqua; he would not want you to know they lost to Lansford.


At the age of 8, he began delivering baked goods from his parents' kitchen in Coaldale. This was the beginning of a family business that expanded to Tamaqua, Lansford and for several years, Mahanoy City, Pottsville and Allentown. Wenzel's Bakery closed in 2006. During this span, his parents, siblings, other family members and many other who became "family" contributed to the success of the business.


In 1943, George enlisted in the Army and served in World War II in the Pacific Theater. He was expecting to be part of the force destined to invade the Japanese mainland when the war suddenly came to an end. He became a member of the U.S. occupation force serving in Asahigawa, a mining town on the Japanese Island of Hokkaido. Before leaving the military in 1946, he attained the rank of sergeant.


After returning from the service, George attended baking school at Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis, Minn., and continued in the family business. During the late '50s, George and his brother, Bill, managed Wenzel's Auditorium on Center Street in Tamaqua, a combination dance hall and roller skating rink. During this time, Wenzel's attracted local singers and bands, as well as some of the more prominent name of the emerging Rock and Roll era, including, Jimmy Clanton, Fabian and Jimmy Rock. Wenzel's Auditorium closed in 1963 and became a bakery after the fire of 1980 destroyed the bakery building on Broad Street.


George was active in local politics and served on the Tamaqua Borough Council for over 20 years, several of them as council president. He was also a past president and active member of the Tamaqua chapter of Rotary International, where he had a record of attendance for over 50 years. He was also a past president of the Tamaqua Chamber of Commerce, a member of the TIDE board and a member of the Elks, the American Legion and the Tamaqua Historical Society. In 1991, he was honored by the Tamaqua Chamber of Commerce as Citizen of the Year.


George was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Elizabeth; brothers, William and Robert; and his youngest son, Lee.


George is survived by his wife of 63 years, Nellie Verbickas Wenzel; son, George III; daughter, Mary Karen Shoff; son-in-law, Glenn Shoff; sisters-in-law, Janis Jones Wenzel and Carol Karnes Wenzel; nephews, Richard Krepak, William and Frank Wenzel; nieces, Suzanne Krepak Krell, Ann Wenzel Jones, Janis Wenzel Reimiller, Betsy Wenzel Morgan, Sharon Wenzel Van Buskirk and Christine Wenzel Lesisko.


The family requests that donations be sent to The Tamaqua Rotary Club or to The Howard Buehler Memorial Park (The Bungalow)


Private services will be held at the convenience of the family. Friends may call from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Zizelmann-Roche Funeral Home, 500 E. Broad St., Tamaqua. To view the online guest registry, please visitwww.zrgfuneralhome.com. Zizelmann-Roche Funeral Home is in charge of arrangments. 

Published in Republican & Herald on May 11, 2012

Dynamic Landscapes Conference in Vermont

Mimi Picks I'll Have Another at the Derby

I would like you to met our good friend - Mimi. She was one of Lulu's best students. A year ago she earned her doctorate in library science at Florida State. Lulu was her advisor - so I like to call her - Mini-Lulu.

Last summer - she was hired as a professor at the University of Kentucky. This is quite an honor for a newly-minted professor. For this past year - she was busy preparing school librarians for the blue grass state.

Mimi was invited to go to the Kentucky Derby. It is the social event of the year - even bigger than the basketball team winning the national championship this year. So Mimi had to get a fancy dress and hat for the day. I am always amazed that 200,000 people gather together in one place - spend so much money on tickets and "uniforms"- for an event that takes two minutes.

She says that this picking race horses is a new thing to her - but Mimi hit the big time. She put $100 on I'll Have Another - that won the race as a long shot at 15 to 1. 

Do the math - Mimi won $1500 - probably just about enough to cover the cost of ticket - dress - hat - and all the mint juleps that girl can drink  :-)

In just a month - it is on to a new adventure - the University of Alabama stole her away. She took a job at Tuscaloosa - much closer to home and a little warmer - just 200 miles from the beach. Now - if the Crimson Tide wind the football championship - this young lady will have experienced a basketball champion - Kentucky Derby champion - and football championship - all in her rookie year.

Mimi sent these pictures from her iPhone on the big day.

The Baby Sitters Arrive in Providence RI

For the next 5 days - Lulu and I are watching our grandkids in cloudy Providence RI. Drew and Robin are moving to Richmond this summer. There are going to a wedding at Duke then spending a few days in Richmond searching for a house tomorrow.

We left Tallahassee at 6 AM - flew through  Atlanta - arriving in Providence at 11 AM.  Because Lulu is a gold medallion flyer - we got a free upgrade to first class. It was very nice - but the only problem with that is Lulu did not want to sleep to miss out on the first class perks. We had a nice breakfast - little table clothes - etc. It was too early to enjoy and free drinks. People pay $1000 for these tickets - but I would never do it. The front of the plane gets there just a few feet before the back of the plane. I am reminded of an airline crash a few years ago where only a couple people survived. They were sitting in the last row.

After Drew comes home - we will leave them driving north to Burlington VT. Lulu has a speaking engagement there for her library association. We will fly directly home from Vermont via three flights - THREE chances to get bumped from our flight for free volunteer tickets.

Living in Florida for 9 years - we are really spoiled with the weather. We have just had the most beautiful winter and spring. For the last month we barely used the heat or air conditioning. We have been able to use the windows to keep the house cool. The last week in Tallahassee has been 80's or low 90's - great weather for gardening and yard work. You forget how the Northeast has overcast and foggy skies in the winter and spring.

Lulu has two more close trips coming up - Anaheim  and Ireland. This is before the whole family packs up and goes to London for Lulu's class and the Olympics. By that time Drew and family will already be living in Richmond - before they come to our flat in London.

"Satisfaction" comes to Keith Richards

Young Keith Richards - The Mind

Old Keith Richards - The Mind on Drugs

From This Day in History -
In the early morning hours of May 7, 1965, in a Clearwater, Florida, motel room, a bleary-eyed Keith Richards awoke, grabbed a tape recorder and laid down one of the greatest pop hooks of all time: The opening riff of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." He then promptly fell back to sleep.

"When I woke up in the morning, the tape had run out," Richards recalled many years later. "I put it back on, and there's this, maybe, 30 seconds of 'Satisfaction,' in a very drowsy sort of rendition. And then it suddenly—the guitar goes 'CLANG," and then there's like 45 minutes of snoring." It wasn't much to go on, but he played it for Mick Jagger later that same day. "He only had the first bit, and then he had the riff," Jagger recalls. "It sounded like a country sort of thing on acoustic guitar—it didn't sound like rock. But he didn't really like it, he thought it was a joke... He really didn't think it was single material, and we all said 'You're off your head.' Which he was, of course."

With verses written by Jagger—Richards had already come up with the line "I can't get no satisfaction"—the Stones took the song into the Chess studios in Chicago just three days later, on May 10, 1965, and completed it on May 12 after a flight to Los Angeles and an 18-hour recording session at RCA. It was there that Richards hooked up an early Gibson version of a fuzz box to his guitar and gave a riff he'd initially envisioned being played by horns its distinctive, iconic sound

Though the Stones at the time were already midway through their third U.S. tour, their only bona fide American hits to date were "Time Is On My Side" and the recently released "The Last Time." "Satisfaction" was the song that would catapult them to superstar status. Forty years later, when Rolling Stonemagazine ranked "Satisfaction" #2 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time," it put the following historical perspective on the riff Keith Richards discovered on this day in 1965: "That spark in the night...was the crossroads: the point at which the rickety jump and puppy love of early rock and roll became rock."