George Martin Lane and The Odyssey of "One Meatball"
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Martin Lane (1823-1897), a Harvard Latin Scholar who wound up playing an unlikely and small role in pop culture. A Boston native, Lane graduated from Harvard in 1846, and received his doctorate from Göttingen in 1851 after having also studied in Berlin, Bonn, and Heidelberg. He then […]