Ken and All,

  Yes, of course, we all do.  I have been reading the Richmond and
Danville newspapers on the web, and the great national disaster
has almost eclipsed local news on their websites.
  But one thing that differentiates a civilization from a hunting and
gathering band, is a civilization's ability to do more than one thing
at a time.  We fought WW II, but scholarship, art, gardening,
architecture, and even burlesque continued to develop.
  Let's keep think about New York and Washington, DC;  how can
we not.  But let's also talk about colonial land patents, the extent
of gunownership in the early Republic, and Reconstruction in
Virginia.  More to the point, let's follow Goethe's advice to
Steppenwolf in Herman Hesse's novel:  to remain sane, "keep your
sense of humor."

Harold

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> Does anybody here realize whats happened in NY ?????
>
>
> At 10:24 PM 9/14/01 -0400, kukla wrote:
> >Here is the complete third paragraph, with apologies once again for
> >whatever seems to have excised it from this afternoon's and this
> >evening's early posts. -jk ...... However, there is slightly more to the
> >story. Those errors are not mine, but the work of someone else. I am
> >learning about the web fast, moving from no knowledge at the beginning of
> >the year to a sad experience of its dangers today. I had no idea that
> >someone could take what is on your web site, alter it, and put it back.
> >That is what someone did to my site. I do not know when this happened,
> >for I never looked at my material after I put it on the web -- a terrible
> >mistake I have learned. When I looked closely this past weekend, I
> >discovered that my North Carolina materials were not on the site, large
> >portions of my essay on using probate materials were missing, as were
> >sections of my bibliographies, and words had been added to my probate
> >records. Most outrageously, and this would be funny in other
> >circumstances, someone had gone through the book section of the probate
> >material and inserted _Cleland's Memoirs_ in several of the book
> >listings. It took me a while to catch on to that one, and I only did so
> >because it appeared several times. Al Young kindly informed me that
> >_Cleland's Memoirs_is the famous early work of pornography, Fanny Hill,
> >published in the 1760s as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure! Some rather
> >sophisticated hacker made these religious Vermont, Maine, and Ohio
> >settlers into devotees of porn. .......
> >
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Fairfield University
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