Sanditon History

Sanditon Historical Society. Collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of @SanditonCA since 1978. [email protected] (RP)

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@SawBleu Pre-orders due to start six months before the publication date! ...but we can always set one aside for you :)

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Catch our forthcoming book, Prominent Families of Sanditon: Leading Citizens from Sandy Village to New Sanditon (expected publication 2015)!

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(That is our next project, by the way! Working through Sanditon's founding families one by one.)

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Perhaps later we'll return to it. We're sure we'll dig up many interesting facts on our investigation into the Parker family tree.

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In fact, we are running out of facts interesting enough to put in our daily AM Fun Facts...

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AM fun fact: You may have been suffering under the delusion that Sanditon's history is very interesting. It's really not that extraordinary.

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Miss Blake's dress and petticoats are toast, but other than some burns on her legs and torso, she survives unharmed.

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Fortunately, her father, brother, and three closest neighbors manage to run her down to the beach and toss her into the ocean.

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OTD 1864: While preparing breakfast, Miss Emilia Blake lets her hem get too near the fire and her entire dress goes ablaze.

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OTD 1929: Sanditon financier Alistair Denham Jr. writes in an editorial, "The stock market appears to have reached a permanent plateau."

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AM fun fact: The crime rate in Sanditon has gone down 87% since Louisa Denham started phoning in tips in 1979.

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OTD 2002: Due to a printing error, congresswoman Ella-Jane Howard's campaign signs show up hot pink. (Remember that, guys? Good times.)

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(Hey, three months ago is long enough to be history!)

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Branded as a "life-revealing application", Domino both revealed too much and set in motion some very interesting changes in Sanditon...

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AM fun fact: In summer 2013, Sanditon participated in a communication tool called "Domino", leading to much oversharing of personal details.

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If lovers simply had a harder time finding a dark corner, or if it had to do with busybody Miss Howard and her spotlight, we can only guess.

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AM fun fact: The introduction of electric lighting to Sanditon decreased the number of births less than nine months after marriage by 85%.

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@huskyhusker Indeed!

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(That was the entirety of the letter.)

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On August 9, 1862, he wrote to his brother: "August. Hot. Not yet time for harvest. Calliope in a bad way. Margaret sends her love."