The Green Books

You may have noticed that I recently began posting a BJ's Though Of The Week. Who is this BJ, and why does he have a thought of the week? Let's look at a little chiropractic history today.
In 1895 DD Palmer delivered the first chiropractic adjustment to Harvey Lillard in Davenport, IA. At the time, DD was a "magnetic healer". Mr. Lillard was a janitor in the building in which DD practiced, and was deaf. I'm not sure the exact circumstances, but somehow DD decided to adjust Mr. Lillard, and his hearing returned. DD thought that there must be something to this! He spent the rest of his days exploring the relationship of the spinal column to health. In 1897 he founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, IA. This is now known as Palmer College of Chiropractic, and is where went to school!
BJ Palmer is the son of DD. Where DD Palmer is known as the founder of chiropractic, BJ is known as the developer. Under BJ's leadership, chiropractic developed into the profession it is today. BJ had a very strong personality, and was quite eccentric. This led to great successes, and also great controversies. He had several fallings out with people within the chiropractic profession, including his own father. At various times he was a very staunch advocate for different chiropractic techniques, methods, and orginizations.
BJ owned several radio stations at the time when radio was the dominant media format. Incidentially, one of the radio stations he owned was WOC (which stands for Wonders Of Chiropractic), where a young Ronald Reagan worked! He was a renowned world traveler who had a very large collection of artifacts. If you are ever in Davenport, IA, be sure to check out the Palmer Mansion, in which is contained several of these artifacts. You can see his eccentricity when touring his former home.
The green books are the writings of both DD and BJ Palmer. BJ was a very prolific writer, and the main author of these green books. This is from where BJ's Though Of The Week comes.
He was a great lover of quippy quotes and covered almost the entire school in provokative thoughts. To this day some of these still exist on the wall of the college! I hope you continue to enjoy some of BJ's thoughts. Here's one for the road-

"Many a man has the eyesight of a hawk and the vision of a clam."