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To: John Hunt who wrote (11428)	12/14/1997 3:45:00 PM
From: Elllk	Respond to of 18056

John Thank you so much for the url to the wonderful article about Tom Paine. I now know much more about him than I ever did. I have printed out the article so I can read it much more carefully as well. Here I live on the Upper Eastside of Manhattan, wondering at times how I got here from where I grew up 60 miles West of Boston on the old Mohawk Trail that went approximately between what are now Boston and Albany, and I never knew Paine lived on a farm in New Rochelle which is only about 20 miles away from where I now am. I will go up there and find out what has happened to the farm. He was on my mind because I was watching a good documentary on the education channel here yesterday about the American Revolution in which he, of course, came up a few times. In fact, yesterday I was telling a guy who lives across the street and recently came from just West of Boston, that the documentary pointed out that when John Adams (also from slightly West of Boston) went to the first revolutionary gathering in Philidelphia (1774 or 75) he was 39 and had never been more than 100 miles away from where he was born (in those days, of course, there wasn't much reason why he should have been [no Club Med or Kathie Lee to say you were missing anything]). The horseback trip to Philly was, as a result, incredibly exciting for him and he took copious notes on his journey. Passing through Manhattan (at that time there were no buildings in Manhattan much higher than two stories) he observed that to his consternation it was a frenetic place where if you asked someone a simple question they would launch into an extended discourse with others often joining in and talking at cross purposes while no one listened to anyone else. Despite the tremendous changes in the sizes of Boston and New York, observations of such early travellers (Tocqueville on America in general also) still remain true enough to bring a smile of recognition. Eh! Thanks again for the great article. Larry