Story of Writing October 14, 2026

<p>George Eastman gets the U.S. patent for &quot;paper strip photographic film,&quot; Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier, Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the writers Katherine Mansfield and Usher were born on this day - with a reading from Mansfield&#39;s &quot;At the Bay.&quot; </p>