The Sailmaker's Daughter
170 years ago, a teenage girl wrote about the contrast between fine weather and cruel times.
In the excellent movie The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti’s curmudgeonly history professor says, “History is not simply a study of the past; it is an explanation of the present.” Today, I’m looking to the past not for explanations so much as… company. How did good people feel and act in tumultuous times?…
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