I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
“Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.”
“We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.”