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 ...
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 ...