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Last week I finally finished Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin Burroughs and Mike Wallace on my kindle. It was good, and if I'd read some of it every day, I would have finished it in a couple of months. There was a lot of class misery and there was a lot in it about attempts at social programs to help the poor.
This week I listened to Lake Wobegon Virus, Garrison Keillor. I started listening to his radio show Prairie Home Companion in 1981 and I'd been to some of his shows at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall and Radio City Music Hall in New York City and at least two shows he did at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. He overdoes talking about lust, nose snot, farts and other body functions, but the second half was quite good.
I started listening to former President Obama's A Promised Land during my walk this evening.
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