Reader Joe Dicus inspired this column by wondering if the horsefly switch that was our most recent "What Is It" item might have also been known as a Shoo Fly. I have decided that he is right since the ...
The question started with a hazy memory, of being a kid in Providence, no older than age 11, and a small section of the city with a funny name: Shoo Fly. This reader remembered being a young man and ...