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A 19th Century Information Revolution

By John Walters on Tuesday, May 20, 2003.

John Griesemer is a writer and actor from Lyme. His second novel is Signal & Noise. It takes place around the time of the the Civil War and tells the story of the first efforts to lay a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. It's an entertaining bled of fact and fiction that spans two continents, many years, and has a big cast of characters.

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