Posted on 01/17/2018 3:30:31 PM PST by mairdie
If you enjoy old documents, this is the 1814 Psalms and Hymns. Everything I buy I scan in and put up to share.
http://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/jhl/psalms-jhl-p000-001.htm
Of course! A just world is one where everyone does exactly as I think they should ;-).
I’m glad I can recognize my mother’s drives but not be controlled or upset by them. If I don’t want to do what she suggests, I just ignore it, while continuing to email her every day or two and emphasizing how much she cares for all of us.
I love old documents ;-). I guess I’m not a modern person, because I enjoy learning about people and what they believed and what they did, even if it’s different from me. As I understand it, today one must hate everyone who has a different opinion.
My maternal grandfather was the youngest of 13 children from a tiny farm near Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Only the oldest son stayed there: the rest are scattered across the English-speaking world. My mother has first cousins in Ireland, England, the United States, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and (in the 80s) Rhodesia.
not familiar with that particular set, but I am a big fan of “great courses” I own a boatload of them...
Mother called us Heinz variety when I asked what our ancestry was, so I still think of myself as an American mixing bowl, stirred not shaken.
When I research, I buy EVERYTHING and fill the house. Husband absolutely panicked when I started collecting books on 18th century religion and left them open on every surface that had room. Someone who owns sermons written in an unreadable shorthand of my 6th great grandfather brought them to see if my “genes” would let me make sense of something he couldn’t. They couldn’t. Of course.
I bought the books my great grandfather took with him when he ran away from home. My most all consuming passion is to understand and to just keep stuffing information into my overstuffed head until it leaks out. Right now, I’m stuffing Toulouse-Lautrec. I’m trying to organize all of his paintings by decade. It’s coming VERY slowly.
That’s a fine facsimile image. Do you happen to have a complete facsimile of the diary of Esther Edwards Burr, the mother of Vice President Aaron Burr? I have an abridged reproduction, but I know a complete version exists, because I’ve seen quotes from it that aren’t in the version I have.
Has Bill Clinton made a pass at her yet?
We have a limited number of bookshelves, and if the books outgrow it, we take them to the library, the church sale, or the used bookstore: “The Book Lady.” Otherwise, we’d have to give the house to the books while the family camped in the yard!
No. The people I follow didn’t like Aaron Burr, so I wouldn’t have gone near anything of his.
My 5th great grandfather put his daughter into the care of Alexander Hamilton when his wife died, and she was with them until her sister, my 4th great grandmother, took her into her married home. So I follow the Hamiltons, but not the Burrs.
And the Jays. John Jay used to stay with my 5th great grandparents, and tried to have his son taken in by them when he was Ambassador to Spain.
“Ancient Egypt,” by Professor Bob Brier, 48 lectures. He has a more recent course in which he teaches you to read Egyptian hieroglyphs. I have a boatload of courses, too, almost all on audio CD so I can listen in the car or the kitchen or wherever I’m passing the time.
For Christmas, my husband got me the premium online service. We’re snowed in today, and I watched several lectures about the Ottoman Empire while I caught up on family paperwork. However, I really need to learn how to carry the audio around, because I rarely have time to watch video.
I took the simple way out. I built an addition on the house. The front of it is a 42 foot long hallway with floor to ceiling bookshelves on both sides - one side for regular books and one for paperbacks. The hallway ends in a 10’ high library with bookshelves made for big art books. There’s another 10 bookcases in other scattered rooms, and the books that don’t fit go into boxes in the closets. I’m DESPERATE for room for books.
Sorry to hear that (in a way, because Aaron Burr was barking mad, so I understand people would avoid him).
John Jay is an underappreciated figure of the Federal period.
I still have 8 children at home, and at the earliest opportunity ... 15 years from now? ... we’ll move to an Independent Living apartment. I was 45 when Kathleen was born, and my husband was 49.
http://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/index.htm
http://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/johnjay.htm
http://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/alexanderhamilton.htm
One of the favorite things I have up is a book that belonged to my 5th ggf Henry Livingston’s brother, Gilbert. It describes how you take the electricity you captured with your lightning rod and use it to cure every disease known to mankind.
http://www.henrylivingston.com/theman/atlocustgrove/medical/electricity/cover.htm
Thanks, it looks very interesting.
We’re childless. I’m 73, husband 75. And still we fill the house with STUFF. I couldn’t handle the house alone but as long as there’s husband and handymen, we’ll stay put.
Favorite parts:
Test and calibrate your dial so you don’t zap anyone too much.
Don’t zap INTO the eye. Zap BESIDE the eye and waft the electricity into the eye by waving your hand.
My husband and I have ten children. The oldest is 26, a gunner in the Coast Guard, and the youngest, Kathleen, will be six on Friday. However, because Friday is also James’s birthday (he will be 14), we will be marking Kathleen’s chronological advancement date, but we will celebrate her birthday on June 1, which she chose.
I know, it’s weird, but OldTax-lady, my mom, says everyone should have their very own birthday, even if it’s not the day they were born.
Oh, thanks! It’s amazing how much random books from one’s childhood cost these days!
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