…are doin’ it. Now, even Mike has a blog.

Update: Now at a new address: http://duvall.wordherders.net.

I spent part of yesterday reading through one of the preacher’s materials. He kept an amazing record of his preaching in something called a sermon register: what he preached where at what time. Each page is a single month, and for every day of every month he recorded his morning & evening (and sometimes noon) sermon texts, in other words, on which verse from the Bible he preached. This register goes from the 1770s to the 1810s, and he keeps a running tally of how many sermons he’s delivered. By the end of the register, the total is just over 13,000. That’s surely not 13,000 separate sermons, as he is sure to have repeated discourses over the course of his career, but still: Wow. This is an invaluable resource. I don’t yet know how many of the preachers kept such meticulous records, but I certainly did not anticipate being able to know this kind of detail. It’s stunning.

I just sat down at the Easy Internet Cafe and noticed someone with a blogger interface open next to me. I assumed he was a local Manchester blogger. Nope, an American like me. Check out What Ho, Then, a blog devoted to Jeff Quick’s trip to England.

For a list of Manchester bloggers located near the library where I’m researching, check out this page at GEOurl.org.

Sometimes these posts just write themselves:

“in speeches and comments in recent weeks, senior administration officials have begun to lower expectations that weapons will be found anytime soon, if at all, and suggested they may have been destroyed, buried or spirited out of the country.”

Yeah, that’s it: “spirited out of the country.”

Group fiction blog Exit Page Left is underway. Check it out.