This site is a kind of memory palace in the ether. When I run across some interesting description or remark that throws an unexpected light on the conditions of its time, I deposit the passage here, and then I can find it again. When I ask some historical question and find an answer, I leave my notes here.
I’ve tried to make the site entertaining and useful for other readers, too. All the content here is released to the world at large under a Creative Commons CC0 Universal Public Domain Declaration. You can use anything here in any way you like, but you can’t take away my right to use it any way I like, and you can’t hold me responsible if what you do with it gets you arrested or destroys Cleveland.
Corrections, amplifications, additions, and random remarks are welcome in the comments.