We're still in September, right? Oops. This newsletter is all cabinet-cleaning and no sharply rendered observations. But did you know...?

George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix were neighbors.

Drawing names from a hat decided which archival records would go to either North Dakota or South Dakota when the territory split.

Schoolhouse Rock turned 50 this year! (I was among several people, including one of the show's creators, interviewed for a podcast episode five years ago. Scroll down for the transcript if you prefer to read.)

Nitrate fires create their own oxygen, a real (reel?) problem for old films, so the National Archives and other government agencies tested vaults in 1948. Stay for the explosions that start at 8:20.

(Did you misread the "Hodgepodge" title as "Hedgehog" like I did at least once in drafting this? "The set crashed down / the lights did too"...)
 

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This newsletter was written on the traditional lands of the Piscataway and Nacotchtank.