On Wednesday night there was an accident on Route 926 between Mill and Byrd Roads (a pickup truck went up the bank), and I shared information about it on social media to alert people to avoid the area. Then I went back to my bedtime reading: a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, "The Nine Tailors," which is set in a small, isolated town in rural East Anglia in the 1930s. The local minister in the story hears the church bells ringing from a distance, and he can tell from the pattern that they are announcing the death of a man (the aforementioned nine tailors) followed by 46 strokes, the dead man's age.
Facebook, it seems, is just the latest in a series of ways that creative humans have devised to broadcast news quickly.
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