"In fiction, the principles are given, to find the facts: in history, the facts are given, to find the principles; and the writer who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them performs only one half of his office."
Thomas Babington Macaulay, "History," Edinburgh Review, 1828
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Halloween in a Colonial Cemetery
West Cemetery in Amherst, view from the western end of the 1730 Knoll
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