Clan mine ping
NO WAI! Nobody ever learned to read, write, and add before compulsory government schools opened! Everyone knows that!
Why not study the communities of immigrants (some of which are here illegally) who refuse to assimilate today?
"These people helped build Maryland's infrastructure and supply materials for the Washington Monument, the U.S. Capitol, yet their voices have been muted in history," Brighton adds. i>
Um, if the story is to believed at all, "these people" muted themselves. Are we sure this isn't Pompey and they were covered by volcanic ash?
******Dating to the 1850’s******** ?????????????????
Good grief - there should be diaries and photos.
Digging???
I’m all in favor of sunken civs - but this hardly qualifies.
My great grandfather’s obituary (born 1840 in Kilkee, Ireland; died Osceola in PA in 1895) noted that he was honored in his community for teaching other young, Irish immigrant coal miners to read and write. Although he was retired from the mines because of lung problems at the time of his death, he was noted for “reading extensively and discussing the news of the day with his neighbors and all who stopped by.”
It’s almost like FreeRepublic.
He made sure that his 13 children were all educated, although he didn’t live to see them all grow up.
As opposed to swinging by McDonald's on their way home?
You're right; this reads like a report on an ancient civilization rather than one that posters on this board have 2nd- if not 1st-hand knowledge. While this Brighton guy sounds like a typical academic--he has no experience in the real world of real people living real lives--I'm grateful that he's sifting under outhouses . . . and not me.
