Maggie's Farm

The title of my second unpublishable book will be "George Washington's Nurse". This time, instead of foolishly writing the book first, I plan to market the title, and to come up with an idea and write the book afterwards.

One good reason to have kids is to keep you young with ideas. A pupette recently read PT Barnum's autobiography. She was fascinated by his hutzpah, and wonders how much of his autobiography is a con job.

One of Barnum's great hoaxes was The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington, (the Father of Our Country,) Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds

More details on the story here. He actually sold tickets to her autopsy.

Here's the Barnum Museum, closed at the moment until repairs can be made from a tornado that hit town two years ago. We had wanted to check it out: