Monday, July 07, 2003

Wedding in Niagara Falls?

How strange is that! Rather than having the honeymoon there, you have the wedding there...and then where do you go? The Pocono's?

I have been reading Richard Brookhiser's new biography of Gouvenour Morris. It is a nice read, one reason being that Morris had a very eventful life, but he is not a "Great Man", and Brookhiser doesn't go rummaging through his life trying to find any false and overblown significance hidden behind the curtains or under the bed. But Gouvenour did do and see and a lot...and one thing he did was have the first recorded honeymoon at Niagara Falls. This occurred, after a life of general rakish behaviour, when he was 61. It was a question of business with pleasure; he was part of a fact-finding enquiry into the Erie Canal, for which he was a major booster.

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