sporgus No 02 - Obscured Paths Abound

The writer of these pages visited Sulgrave a few years since. It was in a quiet rural neighborhood, where the farm-houses were quaint and antiquated. A part only of the manor house remained, and was inhabited by a farmer. The Washington crest, in colored glass, was to be seen in a window of what was now the buttery. A window on which the whole family arms was emblazoned had been removed to the residence of the actual proprietor of the manor. Another relic of the ancient manor of the Washingtons was a rookery in a venerable grove hard by. The rooks, those stanch adherents to old family abodes, still hovered and cawed about their hereditary nests. In the pavement of the parish church we were shown a stone slab bearing effigies on plates of brass of Laurence Wasshington, gent., and Anne his wife, and their four sons and eleven daughters. The inscription in black letter was dated 1564.]

Archaeologists like to read Archaeology Today and men like to read Ask Men. But do politicians read the White House press releases for their news? One wonders if there are any special sections in the Library of Congress for government news Web sites and scientifica journals pubilshed by secret government agencies. Students at Brown University probably lack some of the resources that students at Yale and Harvard have access to.