I was watching a program on the Arts & Entertainment cable network recently, and the show highlighted Henry Ford's Fairlane Mansion. As I sat there with my laptop, getting ahead on my 2003 writing for this magazine, it was quite a coincidence that the topic I was writing about, valve tagging, would present itself on this program.
Watching this show, the mansion's remote boiler plant caught my attention. This home is spectacular, built at the turn of the century (19th century into 20th century) and on the grounds is this central heating plant that was as impressive as the mansion itself.