oh, family....

I've just found another podcast to listen to while I work: this one is The Bowery Boys, and they relate little bits of New York City history.

Okay, my mother always said we were related to the Beechers (like Harriet Beecher Stowe – Little Tom's Cabin) and the Stowes on her maternal side...
so here is a wonderful story about Henry Ward Beecher, one of several nutball preachers in my ancestry... and if you think this doesn't sound interesting enough to follow up on, just please know it involves SEX SCANDALS and HASHISH smoking. so there.