A window into the past
Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard has a link to a wonderful set of archives: the complete scanned (and searchable) archives of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (a newspaper) from 1841 to 1902. I love sources of information like this: they remind us both of how different life was back then and, simultaneously, how similar it was.
And when I read an article from page 2 of the December 31, 1902 edition about a boy shooting out the windows of a church with an air rifle, my first thought was, “I didn’t do it, Mom!” (I had both a BB gun and an air pistol as a young boy, and in retrospect I often wonder just what my parents were thinking when they gave them to me.) ..bruce..
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