Markers of History

I’d hoped to put a marker post out today, but that was not to be. (Isn’t that always the way on the day before you go on a trip?)

My wife and I are headed out of town first thing tomor­row morn­ing for my wife to take her vows as a novice in the Anglican Order of Preachers at their chap­ter gath­er­ing in Savannah, GA. I hope to have some free time that, if the weather’s good, may lead to my first posts about mark­ers out­side of Virginia on this blog.

I’ve also decided (after spend­ing some time yes­ter­day catch­ing up on my log­ging at Markeroni) that this blog needs to change a lit­tle bit. From the begin­ning, I’ve blogged about every marker I’ve logged on that site, and the back­log is now more than a month and grow­ing much faster than I can write about it. So when I return, I’m plan­ning to be a lit­tle choosier with post­ing, at least on a trial basis. That also means I would have a bit more free­dom to choose mark­ers (since, to date, I’ve been post­ing them sim­ply in the order I saw them) or to take a break from a cer­tain series of mark­ers if I would like to write about some­thing new. I also hope to move to a sched­ule of mostly a sin­gle post per day and not so many days with two or three posts, so that I can find time to research and write more in depth about some markers.

The first man­i­fes­ta­tion of these changes will prob­a­bly be a report on my trip back here, and if I get some marker-hunting time in, I expect I’ll make next week’s posts focus on the mark­ers from this week’s trip.

Thanks for read­ing! I hope you’ll find a his­tor­i­cal marker near you to read this week, and I’ll be back here with new con­tent start­ing Monday, August 17th!