Monday
After breakfast did exercise routine. Puttering. Created some questions for the book group meeting on White Trash. Karen was off in Cambridge at Soup Group. Greeted one of the 50 photographers in the gallery to see her work. Read more of Stalingrad.
Broke up the many computer boxes I had brought down from the 2nd floor of barn. First step in a clean out.
Met with Emily Chameides at the library at 5pm. Talked through lots of issues.
Nonfiction book group at 6 pm. 8 people attended despite promises from four or five more to show up. Two new people: Anna Maria Assevero and Peter Daley. She has joined the library board. He is a friend of Erika and Nick from another book group. Good discussion.
Read more of The Common Cause. Very fine grained history. Almost 20% of the typical page is taken up with footnotes and annotations. Will skim more of this. Most interesting is not the somewhat unsurprising racism of the leaders of the revolution. Rather it is the intensiveness with which they managed the communications with the public, chiefly through the press.
Dinner st Dave Drake’s new apartment on New St in Catskill. SJ Williams and Pauline Decarmo came with us. Lots of talk about movies and books. Reviewed yesterday’s movie Moonlight.
