I originally wrote this one for the newspaper but it was just too much for them to handle as a single story. It is really three or four stories in one. Jon Weston had an amazing lacrosse career, he was a technology innovator who helped lay the first tracks for what would one day become The Internet, and his retirement includes both major weight loss and a new business here in Georgetown...

Jon Weston has had a lifelong love affair with lacrosse.

While still in high school, Mr Weston built a wind tunnel in his basement to do research on the aerodynamics of ground effects. At that time, the army was trying to figure out how to make helicopter blades quieter. His home-based experiments won one of the army’s highest academic awards, which led to a Maryland State Senatorial Scholarship, which in turn led Mr Weston to John Hopkins University. There he got hooked on the intensity of lacrosse and played on various teams throughout his college years.

Native Americans invented lacrosse almost a thousand years ago. It was a form of symbolic warfare for them