If I haven't told you who pass by here often enough, please check out Forgotten New York - this week's post on some of Staten Island's oldest buildings is a great example of how the web can actually be an amateur interest archive of sorts.

I get a kick as you may have gathered about learning about a whole bunch of aspects of the life and the history of the City. This week I go to to walk around this room late on an autumn afternoon with the yellow sunlight coming in low from the west. These are the original two steam pumps from the …

Hunting for some authority for my claims on colonial constitutions, I came across these two photos of 1860s Kingston on the web site for the national Library and Archives of Canada. I am fairly sure I know where each of these are, the one on the right being King Street West a couple of blocks west …

The excellent - and ale-erific - Michael in Halifax includes this fact in a post today:  •  “At the battle of Towton in 1461 - Britain's bloodiest battle - the Yorkist faction had as many as 20,000 archers. At 15 arrows per minute that's 300,000 arrows per minute - 5000 arrows per second. 28,000 …

I often wonder at some of the incidental buildings of Kingston, the repurposed. This one just up Queens street from St. Paul's Anglican always catches my eye. The porch's roofline is very Quebec and I wonder if it was some sort of roadhouse when it was first built. It is listed in the Ontario …

I noticed this on my noon walk today as I was passing St. Andrew's Presbyterian at Princess and (I think) Clergy. Notice that the cannon is in the lower right of the picture at the left. Click for bigger images.