By RL Phipps Food for thought…. In the last 100 years we have witnessed the slow disintegration of the backbone of our nation. Skills brought from the “Old Country”, the crafts and trades passed from generation to generation, from father to son and mother to daughter; are becoming obsolete, non-existent, the stuff of mythology and fairy tales. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker… the cobbler, the seamstress, the...