Query: "blue laws"

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:43 PM -0500 3/21/06, Baker, John wrote:
>         I meant that nobody has found them on blue paper.  However, it
>is true that the more dramatic supposed examples of blue laws were in
>fact fictitious.  Detailed information is available in Trumbull, The
>True-Blue Laws of Connecticut and New Haven and the False Blue Laws
>Forged by Peters (1876), online at
>http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/ABL/etext/trueblue/bluelawsmain.html.
>
Said laws later reinterpreted to dictate the wearing of Eli blue at Yale.

larry

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