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Unset's avatar

Great profile, thank you. A minor quibble: the two calculators I tried have $900 in 1860 money worth $28-$32K today, not millions.

https://westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi?money=900&first=1860&final=2021

https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1860?amount=900

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Suzanne Spellen's avatar

I was in a hurry and saw the comma in the wrong place. You are, of course, correct.

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William Everdell's avatar

Nice piece. One of my classmates, Kip Clark, wrote a Beecher biography that was less succinct and approachable, and I live in Beecher’s old neighborhood. I suspect you also live in Brooklyn when your writing betrays an easy familiarity with it.

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Suzanne Spellen's avatar

William, I used to live in Brooklyn, for over 30 years. I live in Troy, NY now. I lived in both Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights North. One of my closest friends used to live in the Heights, and I wandered around the neighborhood for years.

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William Everdell's avatar

I'd say Brooklyn should be sorry to have lost you, but as an expatriate Brooklynite (Trojan?) you may want to write about that great New Yorker, St. Nicholas (New Amsterdam's Sinter Klaas) because (as I'm sure you know) Troy is where CC Moore's constitutive poem about him was published in the early 19th century when Christmas was still uncelebrated in Puritan Massachusetts, just east of Troy.

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sfinbk's avatar

Very informative! I didn't know much about HWB and now feel a visit to the Plymouth Church is in order.

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