Tuesday, June 02, 2009

They're In Our Subhead


I was reading in a book about the Lenape people who lived in what we now call Manhattan. And anyway, the Lenape people were talking to some Dutch guy (I guess) in the 1670s and they told him that a while back there was this guy who "came down from above, upon a Barrel's-head, let down by a Rope, and lived amongst them sixty years." And when I read that, I was like, "Are you kidding me? That is so totally a UFO!" On the other hand, I doubt it. But we haven't mentioned UFOs since February, and they're in our subhead, so okay. PS: The book is called MANNAHATTA: A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY and you should get it.