On August 8, 1809, John Quincy Adams wrote, “Thick fogs all day. No observation. Saw a Schooner. Read Langhorne’s Life of Plutarch, and began with Theseus.”  You can now follow Mr. Adams’s 200 year old musings (twitterable versions) by following him him on . . . Twitter thanks to the Massachusetts Historical Society.

The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities (www.masshumanities.org) also has a nice daily dose of history, at their “Mass Moments” site: www.massmoments.org.  Today’s moment, from 1765: “Boston Mob Protests Stamp Act”.  MassMoments publishes their “moment” on an RSS feed, too.

Many recent TimeGlider sign-ups have found their way here from Dick Eastman’s prolific daily (+)  newsletter about history and genealogy: Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. If you’re a family historian, it should certainly be in your bookmarks.

On the more mass media side, the History Channel has a daily dose of history (which comes with a dose of commercials) here.  Today’s piece mentions the East Coast blackout of 2003. I was in Brooklyn, NY. With no lights or electric stoves, and on a very hot night, I hung out with our neighbor, drank beer, and roasted hot dogs over a camping stove out on the sidewalk. Thousands of others were out likewise all across the city. The biggest blackout in recent history was also the biggest block party.