I WITNESS: He’s got the whole world in his hands

The venerable Replogle company is located not far from Chicago, Ill. They have been in business for close to 100 years. Replogle manufactures enormous library globes on beautiful mahogany stands accented with brass. During the 1980s, more than a decade before I met her, my wife purchased one for her home library in Los Angeles. I loved that globe so much that when we left California and moved to the East Coast, I insisted that it come with us. Although it was close to three feet in diameter, we managed to get it through the front door of our home in the Berkshires, but when the professional movers we had hired to handle the globe tried to move it into our home office, it wouldn’t fit. The interior door was too narrow. Undeterred, the moving company backed the globe out of the house, removed a large second-story window, and hoisted the carefully wrapped globe through it and into the office.

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