Another phenomenon, still more strikingly modern, was a package of lucifer matches, which, in old times, would have been thought actually to borrow their instantaneous flame from the nether fires of Tophet. ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Last week, in Exploring my Scottish Roots at Cazenovia’s Brea Loch Inn George … Continue reading Illuminating western and central New York history through Phillumeny