[mairdie]

A reminder to lyby that the book became available free for 2 days at midnight PDT last night. Lyby and I were discussing statistics and I thought the example of statistics in analyzing Night Before Christmas might make a good lesson plan. I've seen a number of lesson plans built on the authorship controversy, but not yet on the statistics part. Making it free for everyone for 2 days is an easy way of passing the info on to lyby.

Henry Livingston, Jr.: The Christmas Poet You Always Loved - Kindle Edition

I've been researching NY Rev War history for 20 years and collecting images. Took advantage of writing this book to stuff in every image I've bought or found available for use in that time. I've worked on the question of who actually wrote Night Before Christmas with two professors since 1999 - one from Vassar and a more famous one from New Zealand. The first one sent me all over the country collecting data from archives. The second one had my husband and I creating computer programs analyzing phoneme pairs (the last sound of one word paired with the first sound of the next word), among other things, on the bodies of poetry of Clement Moore and Henry Livingston.

Amazon says it's 450 pages, and there's a lovely 5 star review from a stranger. I always try to make what I do available to share with the FR family, so everyone is welcome to it for these two days.

[lyby]

Thank you!!! Accessed your generous free Kindle version and have been reading away about your family genealogy. Skimming that part now to get to the “good stuff.” ;-)