Musty Courthouse Documents Reveal Human Dramas
If you're looking for a lighter read today, check out these "just-disovered" documents found in a Durham, N.C. courthouse clerk's office.
Covered with soot and coal dust from the heating fires of a bygone era, a batch of 19th- and early 20th-century legal records has emerged from a courthouse cubbyhole to weave a human drama involving long-dead drunkards, adulterers, businessmen, stable keepers and ordinary people in crisis.
There are tales of bawdy houses, financially encumbered horses, business disputes and broken marriages, not to mention -- in the words of one document --"tippling, whoring, fighting and cursing."
Via Eric at Is That Legal.
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