[nicollo]

I didn't know about the Burns project, Horatio's Drive.

It's gonna start all kinds of debates in the automotive historian community over who actually made the first x-country drive. Many made the claim. I wonder what brought Burns to Horatio.

Anyway, that's great news! I'm trying to get a Nat. Archives symposium on early automobiles. This will be a great impulse towards it!

I don't think I'll dress up like Taft yet. I'm putting together an appearance at the Beverly Historical Society in Mass. They claim to have a good Taft impersonator. I told them I'd only appear with him if he agrees to play gold. They told me he probably doesn't play golf. I said that's perfect, for all his effort, neither did Taft!

[x]

Sorry, my bad. This is how Internet rumors get started. There was a biography of Florence Harding written a few years ago, and there is a guy who likes to dress up as her, but it's not the biographer. He's a local Ohio guy who may have a book in the works, but not the published author of the Harding biography. The impersonator was on Comedy Central's "Daily Show" about the time the biography came out, so I got the two confused. More fun tomorrow, but I'll try not to get carried away.