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I've been working on e-labels again and I've written way too much for e-labels, but it's very helpful so I'm considering doing self-guided tour binders instead. We have a lot of didactic labels up about Silas and Clarissa Wright (WHOSE ANNIVERSARY WAS TODAY, YAY), and Silas's life was what I was reading about and synthesizing into a one-page "label" that's now just useful for helping me to give the two tours that I have to give on Tuesday. (WHAT.)

But now ... I have a little bit of a crush on Silas Wright? Some of the early biographies on him were apparently written by Elphias Doge, and they're all "He was such a man of the people! The youngest senator of the time! Sterling reputation and full of integrity!" And he ended up marrying the daughter of the friend of his father who helped him settle in Canton, which is adorable. According to a biographer, according to local lore literally every person in Canton voted for him in his first election except himself, he voted for the other guy. *_* They tried to make him be Polk's running mate but he felt the party had treated Van Buren badly and he was super loyal to Van Buren so he refused. His death caused the party shake-up that led to NY becoming a Republican state before the Civil War. Yeah, I'm ready.