Thanks once again to Jackie Eberstein, Charlie Schultze and my other friends at the Civil war Forum of Metropolitan New York for inviting me to speak at their monthly dinner last Wednesday. With the sesquicentennial of the duel between the Monitor and the Merrimac coming up on March 9th, and with Lieutenant John Worden, the Monitor’s master, being a Briarcliff homeboy, my topic practically dictated itself, and so for an hour or so, I boomed and clanged my way through the tale. Once again, it was great fun being able to discuss a topic of interest with this highly informed and very interested group. I’m very glad they invited me. (Thanks to Nathan Burkan for the photo.)
