Thursday, August 20, 2009

I'm not alone

The Massachusetts Historical society is helping John Quincy Adams to tweet from beyond the grave. Here http://twitter.com/JQAdams_MHS, you can sign up to get daily tweets from his 1809 journals. One thing that struck me looking at them was how often he uses the words like, "fog," "fair day," and "fine wind" - he, too, measured his life by the weather. Granted, he was on a boat. But still. One of my favorites: "8/10/1809: Squally Night and rainy Morning. Saw a Ship. Lat: 43-49. Long: 56-30. Read Plutarch's life of Romulus. http://is.gd/284Kl (map)"

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