Good morning from upstate New York, a few thousand yards from Lafayetteville. Do we know that the Revolutionary hero—a Frenchman who loved America, and whom Washington wound up loving like the son he never had—actually passed through? Not exactly. But Lafayette House, a long-empty and currently maybe-refurbished building a mile up the road is named for him and that’s good enough for me. Plus, riffing on Hepola’s comment this past First Sunday that we should start a series called “Hot History,” come on…
Lafayette has a fascinating history, including being “adopted” by a well-to-do family—if not as well-to-do as his own—after his parents’ died, with the aim that he would marry their daughter and thus enrich the adopted family, which was only the beginning. Hero of Two Worlds, by Mike Duncan (of “The History of Rome” podcast fame) has been half-read by my bedside for a year and I intend to get back to it.
Speaking of the Revolution, we learned last week that the building we moved into in New York’s Financial District quartered George Washington for a time in 1776…
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