Thought all you literary types might find the attached link of interest. Perhaps we should have a Foodsville event...an absinthe tasting combined with a showing of Van Gogh pictures and a Hemingway reading:  

http://www.wbur.org/news/2007/72547_20071120.asp 

The nineteenth-century was a time of enormous social upheaval in America. Having passed through the political tumult of the Revolutionary War era and established the political frameworks that would govern this country, it seemed as if America’s educated elite could finally begin to concentrate their energies on the social structures and precepts that would dominate this land. Nowhere was this more evident than in the realm of education and, specifically, women’s education.



A proto-typical Ne...