A friend's daughter was saying to me that the events of 1776 are "ancient history." I asked her what she thought wasn't "ancient history." She said, "whenever we had photographs and stuff."

( Happy July 4th to my fellow Yankafarians )

I usually pick on religious folk a little more than I should but today is a good time, since I'm mentioning the Adams stuff, to put in a good word for a great church ... the United First Parish Church, a Quincy, Massachusetts Unitarian church that is so old it has a pew marked "the Adams pew". In fact, John and Abigail are buried in its basement ( ( Read more... )