There’s an old saying among actors:  “It takes 15-20 years to be an overnight success.” 

               The same could be said for solar energy projects at the nation’s fairgrounds....

In 1992, an historian named Francis Fukuyama published a book titled The End of History and the Last Man. In the relatively peaceful, prosperous 1990's his book’s title became a meme for those who prophesied that the next century would see the end of radical ideologies...