With an assist from @juliendorra, I think I have an update to one of the side conversations that came from this incredible anti-iceland article yesterdayhttps://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1110931008772280320 …
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At the time, Beecher's preaching was such a big draw that Plymouth Church services were a big source of traffic for ferries across the East River. So his fate was material to the (then-toll) bridge's prospects.
i would read the hell out of a book that is entirely "how our modern world was shaped by the sexual affairs of famous married men in the 19th century."
