The City Directories

The TSLA has the 1880 and the 1881 city directories online. In just a few short minutes, here’s the cool stuff I learned. The Allens (Ben and his parents) lived at 117 South Spruce (not to be confused with Nathaniel Baxter living at 117 North Spruce). In 1881, the Allens were living on Spruce and [...]

Religion as Team Fandom

Coble and I were talking a little bit on twitter about this last night and I still don’t have my ideas fully formed. But I do think that there’s a large segment of our population for whom being a Christian is like being the fan of a sports team. You just wear the right things [...]

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