Stars are pretty cool. If you have ever laid out under a dark night sky to see the vibrant tapestry of the galaxy above you, you might understand how it could become someone’s captivation, one’s  ambition. Such was the case for Percival Lowell. You may have heard of him. He was born into a wealthy Massachusetts family in 1855, graduated from Harvard, and spent some decades of his life actually as a US foreign secretary...