☘️🍀☘️ At least I can WEAR green today, even if I can't SEE it. Ha! 🍀☘️🍀
We are celebrating our GREEN heritage today
by taking VT*Grand to see
the musical Anne of Green Gables!
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☘️ On this St. Patrick's Day, I am thinking of my great great great great Grandfather Patrick, Sr. He and his wife, Johanna, brought their family to America, from Yourghal Ardagh Imokillly Cork Ireland, on 25 November 1851 [exactly 125 years before their great great great great great granddaughter (my Daughter) would be born!].
ReplyDeleteGreat great great Grandfather Patrick, Jr. (age 20 upon arrival) joined the US Navy as a gunner aboard the frigate tall ship USS Cumberland, and was aboard when it was sunk by the Virginia at the battle of Hampton Roads. Grandfather Patrick Jr. kept a journal, which is in the Library of Congress (we have a copy). Patrick married Mary at the original St. Mary's Church in Charlestown, the first Roman Catholic Church in America after the Cathedral in Boston. They settled on Decatur Street and at one point, when he was not aboard ship, Grandfather Patrick Jr. helped put the bars in the Bunker Hill Monument, nearby. ☘️
Actually, Alan, the bars were in the windows to make it impossible for anyone to jump or fall out.
DeleteAs I understand it, in modern times they were removed. I think it is no longer possible to climb the 294 steps up to the windows. I'll have to check on that.
Just flitting by; longish day at work, off to the (SF) Bay Area on the morrow. That's quite a bit of family history, listener; I suppose that the bars in the monument are of the reinforcing kind, rather then those that serve thirsty patrons or that are to be found in the windows of their accommodations should they become overly excited!
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking about that story I posted a link to on the previous thread, about the paleological discoveries in Kenya. It makes all the sense in the world--certainly more than the conventional eurocentric speculation. And I ought to go see the poker game on Star Trek.
TTFN
Alan
From the tail end of the last thread:
ReplyDeleteListener, over the past few days, I've read two books by Madeleine L'Engle, Dragons in the Waters and The Arm of the Starfish, accidentally in that, reverse, order. Superb books! The Arm of the Starfish is particularly powerful. The denouement really blew me away.
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Last night, being Friday, I started A House Like a Lotus. So far not enjoying it as much as the others, but I'm willing to give it a chance. Also, some time ago I started An Acceptable Time. Didn't get very far. Far enough, though, to come across references to Poly's (Polly's?) trip to Athens and work at the conference on Cyprus. No doubt reading the book dealing with that trip will help orient me with regard to An Acceptable Time.
Great reading, Cat!! I read Madeleine's Arm of the Starfish many years ago. Also Summer of the Great Grandmother, the 24 Days Before Christmas, the Time Trilogy, The Irrational Season (a personal favourite), Two-Part Invention and the Glorious Impossible. When we were home schooling we used to write to Madeleine, and she always wrote back. And she sent us a poem every Christmas. I still miss those arriving!
DeleteWait, I've also read her books The Sphinx at Dawn, Bright Evening Star, The Ordering of Love and a book of hers I treasure: Dance in the Desert...!!
DeleteI read A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door as a kid and A Swiftly Tilting Planet in my late twenties. Have reread all three books since. A few years ago I also read an anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poems related to Christmas, which included "The Twenty-four Days before Christmas." Her books are so much deeper and richer than much of the fiction I have grown accustomed to of late. Though I have just finished All Hallow's Eve by Charles Williams. Have you read Williams? Though I don't find his books difficult, they do take some getting used to. I've never read any of his nonfiction, but I expect it's just as wonderful.
Delete☘🍀☘ We celebrated the Green today by taking VT*Grand (now 10!) to see Anne of Green Gables, the Musical, at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. I knew a member of the cast, and to our surprise, VT*Grand knew two! Ha!
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm....might the White House drama be related to the subject of the following post on talkingpointsmemo.com this Thursday past?
ReplyDeleteBOOM: MUELLER CROSSES TRUMP 'RED LINE'
By David Kurtz | March 15, 2018 1:59 pm
NYT reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization. It was reportedly “delivered in recent weeks.” More soon …
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I think we may anticipate that congressional legislating is pretty much finished for this year.
--Alan
Oops--Freudian slip: "pendemonium" should read "pandemonium."
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I think that President Pence will be politically disabled, and unable to accomplish much of anything legislatively. Good. The next question is whether he will pardon his predecessor or not. Pardoning Nixon did not work out well for President Ford; he lost to a little-known governor of Georgia not notable for much beyond an upright character. In that same election the Democrats retained control of both the Senate and the House. I figure Pence is screwed either way, and so is the GOP. If Pence declines to run for President in 2020, it’s probably going to be a free-for-all in both parties.
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I occurs to me to wonder if anyone has started a GoFundMe page to establish an endowment for Mr. McCabe.
From Daily KOS 15 hours ago:
Delete"Gofundme.com Campaigns Create People's Pension for Andrew McCabe"
That's campaignS, plural, as in multiple, several, more than one.
Alan
It seems that at this time there are thirty gofundme pages for a people's pension for Andrew McCabe.
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In the 1974 federal elections, in the wake of Watergate, the Dems gained 3 senate seats and 49 house seats.
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Don't knock an upright character. After all, Trump is notable, or notorious, for nothing more nor less than the exact opposite.
DeleteHere’s Auntie Beeb on the recently announced paleontology discoveries in Kenya.[Click] Some different details from The Atlantic.
ReplyDelete—Alan
P.S.: Thinking of green, the hills here are green (as they should be) because of our recent rains, but the grass is short because of our extremely dry winter up until recently.
From the Washington Post:
ReplyDeleteCongressman offers McCabe a job so he can get his pension. It might work.
McCabe was fired roughly a day before he was set to retire. With 20 years of law enforcement service under his belt, he could take a federal job for a day to get his full retirement benefits, a former government official said.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) offered a job in election security. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said he would be happy to consider it as well.
--Alan
Representative Dent doesn't seem to realize that "the toxic political environment we find ourselves in" was CREATED BY REPUBLICANS COMPLICITY WITH CHEETOLINI. It didn't just magically appear out of nowhere. It is a result of actions the Republicans have taken that will be, and have been, vastly harmful to the majority of the American People. They okay $3 Million for Cheetolini's golf trips while ending THE SAME AMOUNT for Meals on Wheels. They make me sick.
ReplyDeleteDowd is praying, huh? Well, you know, all prayers are answered. Sometimes the answer is "No."
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