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I am very interested in historic American newspapers. Their humor, poetry, and entertainment give very interesting insights into the American character, and personality. For my podcast, I was narrating poems and stories from one hundred years ago, but I came to think that one hundred years is a fairly arbitrary time span. It doesn’t reflect any natural cycles. I wondered if I went back into American newspapers according to some observable cycle, astronomical or historical, there might be some relevance, or resonance, with American culture today. A little research into astronomy and horology yielded some interesting findings, and I decided, as a sort of experiment, to use the Metonic cycle. The Metonic cycle is based on the ancient observation that 235 lunar months is almost exactly equal to 19 solar years. The newspaper material here is from 6 Metonic cycles in the past, or (19×6) 114 years. For the sake of accuracy, I am actually using either 41,638 days (Lunar), or 41,637 days (Solar). Whether or not these cycles have any bearing on the thoughts, insights, or concerns of our American ancestors has yet to be seen, but I find it an interesting experiment.