Tag: Site Updates

Due to a very busy semester at University, I haven’t had time to work on the considerable extra content that I hoped to finish. Despite this, I have managed to add profiles for Clark Wissler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, and JP Morgan to the newly renamed ‘personalities‘ page. I hope to continue to make small updates on exisiting site content over the next few months but I won’t be able to make any large updates until at least June or July. I would also like to mention that due to computer failure, I have lost any emails that were sent over the past few weeks. If you have sent me anything that you would like a response to, please feel free to re-send it.

This may seem a long overdue update and alas, despite it indeed being overdue, it is not a proper site update. For the past month, I have been busy with other offline matters and therefore haven’t had the time to write up any new content for 17th Street. I am instead updating simply to notify you all that the site is still active and to reassure that I will be working on updating the existing content, and adding new content, in the next few weeks.

In addition to this, I would really love some input on what new content for 17th Street should be worked on first – I know that what might interest me may not be of interest to others. As such, I have placed a poll up at the message board (found here) which I would appreciate all interested visitors to vote on. I will be taking the poll into consideration when deciding on new content to add to the site in the future.

Just a small update to the site this month. A new page on animals has been added to the site under ‘The Era’ menu. Animals played an important role in 19th century life and are featured in the Alienist books quite frequently, so it seemed appropriate to include information here on their roles and treatment during the late 1800s. In this update, I would also like to make mention of the fact that the 17th Street Message Board is back up and running with a new script. Please feel free to join up and discuss anything you would like about the books, the era, or the website itself. Finally, I hope that everybody is having a very happy holiday period and that 2007 is a prosperous year with a lot of good reading ahead!

Thanks to a suggestion I received about a month ago, I have created a map of locations in Manhattan that are used as settings within the Alienist books. There are a few other places that I would have liked to have included on the map but unfortunately, I could not obtain information on their exact locations and so had to leave them out. All the same, I think the map is fairly comprehensive and hopefully can be of assistance for many of you. It can be accessed via the places page. The other part of this update relates to the forums. I have taken them down for the time being while I re-organise them and possibly install a new forum script. They will be returning but if you wish to be notified on when they are back up and running, you are more than welcome to contact me. Thanks!