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By Janet Dagley Dagley
Covering the world from the waterfront in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

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Photo by Michael Dagley
Meet Bidshika, whose name I have probably misspelled — it’s in Romany, and I can’t spell very well in that language. Bidshika is one of the fish who live here with us, Malawi cichlids, said to be the most rapidly evolving species on earth, but nobody can be completely sure about that. If we ever get our webcam working, we’ll turn it into a fishcam now and then so you can see them in action.

To air is human

After taking some time off from radio to serve as Editor of AIRSPACE, journal of the Association of Independents in Radio , I’ll be returning to the air for about five minutes on Sunday, February 23, at approximately 10:30 a.m. Eastern U.S. time on WYSO in Yellow Springs (Dayton), Ohio, 91.3 on the FM dial, or streaming online here.
I’ll be doing an audio adaptation of my tribute to philanthropist Virginia Kettering, posted here on February 19 (scroll down to see it). She died Monday at the age of 95.

George Washington slept here (on occasion)

This date used to be a national holiday. It falls on Saturday this year, reminding us of why it’s not a national holiday anymore: what’s the point of a holiday if you’ve already got the day off? Of course, in consolidating George Washington’s birthday and Abraham Lincoln’s birthday into a hybrid, Presidents Day, we ended up with a net loss of one holiday, but at least the current holiday always occurs on a Monday, thus ensuring a three-day weekend for most.

In school I always took a particular interest in our nation’s first president, since both my father and grandfather share that name, along with, of course, George Washington Carver, whose biography I read (for the same reason) after I’d already gone through everything the school library had on the Father of Our Country.

He had no children of his own, which is probably just as well considering the responsibility he took on. He did, however, serve as a father to his wife Martha’s two surviving children, the other two having died before the age of 4.

They say George Washington was a frequent visitor to Hoboken: In the early days, as you may recall, New York was the capital of the newborn nation. Many of the leading politicians of the day had summer homes on this side of the Hudson. Washington was a member of something called the Turtle Club, which met in Hoboken near the Elysian Fields, a Revolutionary-War-era resort on the waterfront where the (alleged) first baseball game was played in 1846, four years after Charles Dickens visited Hoboken and presumably slept here as well.

Now they’d have a dickens of a time finding a place to sleep in Hoboken, since we have no hotels. The old ones have gone out of business, construction on the new one has just begun, and the city planning authorities refused to allow a midtown restaurant to convert its upstairs into a bed and breakfast because some of the neighbors thought it would encourage weekend partiers to stay here until dawn now and then.

My favorite biography of George Washington, by far, is the work of James Thomas Flexner, who died Feb. 13 at the age of 95; Here's his obituary in The New York Times.
You may have to register to read it. It’s free.

Even if you don’t have the time or the interest to read all four volumes of Flexner’s Washington biographies, or any of his other 26 books, I urge you to put one of his books, Washington: The Indispensible Man on your to-read list. Excellent work. They say Flexner was frustrated all his life because despite his accomplishments in nonfiction, he could never write a successful novel. Sounds familiar.

posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @11:35 AM

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