Arther recollects the emails he sent and received on 9/11 but did not retain. It reminded me that I have lost or, recently, abandoned sets of email three times. The first was an error of cleaning up a hard drive, the second was turning off an intranet and the hird a deliberate closing of an …

I am surprised by the interest I am apparently sustaining in reading Saul Cornell's book The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828.  •  One thing I am learning a bit about is whig republicanism, a movement that probably (if I knew anything) can be dated …

We went to the southernmost set of Rideau Canal locks, a triple set at Kingston Mills, this afternoon and...err... I went a bit overboard with the camera. But who knows? Maybe there are canal fans amongst you. If you click on the "continue reading..." link below you will see about 40 more …

Here's a great story in the Toronto Star on one Canadian's experience of the end of the war sixty years ago in Burma. Hows about those Ghurkas?

I am glad to see that Master Flea has continued his quite correct call for the charges of treason to fall upon the heads of those who would vapourize us in small groups for curious ill-defined polio-religio-cultural ends or conspire or assist or abet in the same...except I am shattered that he did …

More scenes from Market Street where it looks like a Tonka kid's dream these days. These stones uncovered below appear to be a storefront of some kind circa 1830s.

The dig behind City Hall is winding down and the things uncovered are being carefully covered again. I am already looking forward to the report on what was found. In the last few days items found have been displayed - when I did not have the camera unfortunately. But the business end of a big meat …

Look kids! A barge drydock from the mid-19th century!!!  •  The ever excellent NYCO and her canal interests leads me to the Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum about two hours south of here:  •  “This place is interesting in that it's probably the only Old Erie park that is treated like a …

Post "post-9/11" that is. I am trying to note if I see any markers for the ending of an era. Whether you think that that terrible day was caused by the alignment of a great number of extraordinary unlikelihoods giving the terrorists a clean run they would never have gotten on any other day or …