It's not often a billion-dollar industry begins with an absent-minded child forgetting his chores, but that's exactly how the Popsicle came to be. In 1905, 11-year-old Frank Epperson mixed up a glass ...

In a previous article, I wrote about the history of popsicles and their inventor. The continuing heat of summer we’re wading through this month has inspired me to pick up the topic again, but this ...