The following is an excerpt from the column, A Look Back,by Tom Glover. Tom has a gift of melding historical places and fictional everyday life. In this article, Lawson Tattler, fictional reporter for the old Trenton Daily Times American newspaper, writes in his diary of Christmas 1896 in bygone Trenton.
HEY JIM.....I'M FLATTERED THAT YOU FOUND ONE OF MY "LAWSON TATTLER" COLUMNS. YOU ARE DOING A GREAT SERVICE TO FELLOW HISTORIANS WITH YOUR BSP BLOG. I HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THAT OLD CODGER. DURING THAT PERIOD I ALSO WROTE A SIMILAR COLUMN ON ALICE AND ELI MOUNT....I THINK THEY WERE BROAD STREET PARKERS. HAVE A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU WHEN YOU ARE IN THE LIBRARY AREA.
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