Starting Out

16 July 2008

Before Chris Doty died, his website "Doty Docs" (sadly no longer on-line) was, at least in my opinion, the best history website you could find for London, Ontario. It will be a long, long time before I ever catch up to him. Still, we need something.

So what can you the reader expect here? First, infrequent posts. If you want regularity, eat more fibre in your diet. Second, a terrible sense of humour that if all goes well, will at some point offend at least everybody once. One need not fall to the use of profanity or insults to gain this effect, the simple quest for truth is good enough.

Topics I would like to touch on, in no particular order are:

Pre-history of our area - we have some archaeological sites estimated to be in the area of 10,000 year old, but you seldom hear of this;

The Civil War - did you know that according to a 1949 London Free Press article, a historian at that time speculated my city was the start of the American Civil War. Not as far fetched as it sounds.

Ghosts - I don't much believe in them, but I love ghost stories. People will give you details to history in fables and myth than sometimes in "real" history.

Baseball - did you know we are one of the most important cites in all North America for the formation of modern day baseball?

More to come. If you have any comments, criticisms, etc, send them my way
joe