reposting today. Happy Independence Day! Grievances Survey Originally published on July 4, 2019 by Marica An annotated Declaration of Independence is here, complete with what prompted the inclusion of each Grievance. As I could not figure out how to embed a real survey, we will do this the old fashioned way. Please use the Comments to answer the following
Reposting today. If you’ve been following along for the past … 10 years or so Originally published on June 30, 2020 by Marica You know that I really really like Independence day.
Reposting today Crappy Old Quote of the Day | NO. 138 Originally published on July 4, 2020 Cato’s Farewell John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon The London Journal, Saturday, July 27, 1723 “SIR, As I have with a success which no man has yet met with (if I regard the number of my readers, and the sale of
Reposting today Crappy Old Quote of the Day Originally published on July 6, 2020 Today we return Cato’s Letters (1720-1723) to the fourth shelf of the big bookshelf in the living room. It was a good run. Hope you enjoyed it. This is a bit late– I missed it entirely until just now as Lines of a Layman had been piled
Reposting today. The Grievances Originally published on November 2, 2020 These are the original. I think we could come up with some new variations on the theme– He/She has endeavored to keep us thinking that our individual safety was more important than our individual liberty. “He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies,
Over the many long years here I have written several decent posts .for Memorial Day. Today I’ll be picking and choosing from among them and reposting. For context, this is from last year when we were doing our Daily Readings. If you’re not familiar with The Man Without a Country, please do take the time
Originally published on February 22, 2017 In commemoration of George Washington’s birthday, here’s the exchange wherein he is informed that’s he’s been elected to the office of President of the United States of America. PROCEEDINGS INITIATORY TO THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION. [From the Washington Papers (Executive Proceedings, vol. 17), Departmentof State.] Charles Thomson, esq., Secretary of
from Amber Waves of Grain: America’s Farmlands from Above (Gerster and Diamanti, 1990) See also Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book 1766-1824: With Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings (Betts, ed., 1944) March 15, 1767 — planted asparagus seed in 5 beds of 4f width, 4 rows in each
Part of the fun of doing the annual book cleaning is the finding of forgotten crappy old books. “But what do we mean by the America Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in
Originally posted November 2012. Here with some minor edits. As you know, the Pilgrims arrived in December 1620, They struggled. In all seriousness, it is fascinating to read Bradford’s account of their first few years. As it turns out, there were deceitful men on both sides of the Atlantic back in those crappy old days, too. You’ve
I woke up this morning and could not remember William Bradford’s first name. THE HORROR. For the next few days The Jungle Book will be paused as we read some Bradford. Meanwhile– and just to keep you up to date– I’m getting out the punch bowl. I’ll be doing the floors. There will be shiny
We’ve made our way to the end. I’m not excerpting anything from the final chapter because it’s too disjointed from the rest of the book. I don’t care for it. Today, being Friday, I’ll just circle ‘round to the first few sentences again. “One of the best things in the world to be is a
“It is impossible to say at what age a New England country-boy becomes conscious that his trousers-legs are too short, and is anxious about the part of his hair and the fit of his woman-made roundabout. These harrowing thoughts come to him later than to the city lad. At least, a generation ago he served
comes courtesy of Gerard Van der Leun. And so we did what any two young boys would do. We improved our fort and hauled in supplies. With some pruning sheers that my mother convinced herself she must have mislaid, we carefully trimmed out the inside stands of bamboo until a comfortable space was made (invisible
“In my day maple-sugar-making used to be something between picnicking and being shipwrecked on a fertile island, where one should save from the wreck tubs and augers, and great kettles and pork, and hen’s eggs and rye-and-indian bread, and begin at once to lead the sweetest life in the world. I am told that it
“John had got thus far in his studies, which were apparently arithmetic and geography, but were in reality the Arabian Nights, and other books of high and mighty adventure. He was a simple country-boy, and did not know much about the world as it is, but he had one of his own imagination, in which
“Perhaps it is not generally known that we get the idea of some of our best military maneuvers from the turkey. The deploying of the skirmish-line in advance of an army is one of them. The drum-major of our holiday militia companies is copied exactly from the turkey gobbler; he has the same splendid appearance,
“One of the best things in farming is gathering the chestnuts, hickory-nuts, butternuts, and even beechnuts, in the late fall, after the frosts have cracked the husks and the high winds have shaken them, and the colored leaves have strewn the ground. On a bright October day, when the air is full of golden sunshine,
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