Word: oxcart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he went to Mexico on a grant to research insects while a U. Mass. undergraduate, Rose found the oxcart, which was built more than 150 years ago. He brought it north to a new home and Red Apple Farm gained another attraction...
Today's world is measured in light-years and Mach speed, and sheathed in silicon and alloy. In the world of 999, on the eve of the first millennium, time moved at the speed of an oxcart or, more often, of a sturdy pair of legs, and the West was built largely on wood. Europe was a collection of untamed forests, countless mile upon mile of trees and brush and brier, dark and inhospitable. Medieval chroniclers used the word desert to describe their arboreal world, a place on the cusp of civilization where werewolves and bogeymen still lunged...