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today's bonus discussion with Houghton Library curator John Overholt.

Greetings, Grammar-Pelusians. Thank you so much for supporting our work, and I am really excited to bring you this bonus episode today with John Overholt, the curator at Houghton Library at Harvard in charge of the Samuel Johnson collection, as well as, I think, everything before 1800 as well. Is that right, John?

So technically, there are two subject-based departments at Houghton, one for the history of printing

and one for the history of performing arts. And so they have some pre-1800 stuff as well.

But kind of everything that doesn't fall into those specific categories that's pre-1800 is in

my curatorial department.

Okay. Wonderful. Well, you still have a lot of stuff that you're in charge of.

And I have been following you probably for eight or 10 years on social media. We're both on Mastodon now. And you post the most wonderful, interesting things. And I have to know, like, where do you find them all?

So some of it is just the stuff that I encounter in the course of my work. One of the things I do a lot

during the semester is work with classes at Harvard, but also sometimes beyond Harvard as well.

And I have a lot of fun figuring out what would be interesting things to pull for those classes.

And I always enjoy the chance to dive into the stacks at Houghton and find cool stuff that I

haven't seen before.

So if I encounter something interesting in that process, I'll usually take a photo and post that. I also use

the RSS Reader Newsblur to subscribe to a couple dozen blogs from special collections libraries

around the world. And whenever I find things there that I think other people might find interesting,

I like to post about those as well.

It is really just a bright spot in my life, I have to say. Last week or the week before,

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