The Sage of Monticello died,
President Palin is born.
Adams and Jefferson
Stephen C. Foster who wrote MY OL KENTUCKY HOME and SWANEE RIVER, both state songs, was born the day they died.
Good reminder of some curious historical anecdotes.
I am in the mists of reading Adam’s biography and the author claims the Declaration of Independence was actually signed on July 2nd.
Michael Jackson?
Read about that A long time ago. Was very interesting to read. Also, some time ago I read about all that signed the DofI and what happened to them and how they died.
Wish I could find it. Was very interesting. Some killed for treason. Farms burned down, etc.
Guess they really had some dedicated British subjects continuing to undermine the United States.
Now we just have so called americans doing that to us now. Beginning with the Kenyan brotha 0.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! Hopefully not our last.
Living in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts doesn’t have many perks these days, but one thing that is VERY cool is the Adams Homestead in Quincy, MA.
I have been there several times, and one cannot help understand that even for his faults, John Adams was a remarkable man. We were fortunate to have men like him at that point in history.
We sure could use him today. Someone who was outspoken and abrasive, physically unattractive and unabashedly patriotic and believed in American Exceptionalism before there was a term to describe it.
Off topic but interesting nonetheless...three presidents in a row (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon) all died on the 22nd day of a month.
Adams1 and Jefferson
I am currently reading “A Narrative of an American Revolutionary Soldier”. It is a memoir written in 1830 by a former revolutionary soldier, Joseph Plumb Martin (Connecticut Regular).
It is a very compelling look back by a soldier on his campaigns in the revolutionary war. It describes the extreme hardships and the battles and marches, and especially the constant hunger suffered by the soldiers who fought the war.
He described marches completed and battles fought on stomachs which had had no food for 3-4 days.
He told about finding a half-buried bone of a butchered hog in a pig pen which had been overlooked by dogs and varmits. He was so hungry, he took the dirty old hog bone and boiled it and tried to eat it.
He told about eating bark off of a tree while his messmates ate their shoes because there was no food.
He said he never wanted to leave the war just because he was tired or because of the citizens who sided with the British or because of the weariness of the fighting and killing or having to sleep on wet ground or in snow covered fields or the bloody feet they got from walking without shoes over frozen ground or enduring freezing weather half-naked or the dysentary or the smallpox or the lack of pay, but he and his fellow soldiers considered leaving and almost mutined twice due to hunger.
Martin said the Revolutionary soldiers endured misery and starvation to fight for the liberty outlined in the Declaration of Independence because the soldiers loved their country and loved their freedom.
As I have read the book, I have felt so ashamed of many present day Americans and many, many of our leaders.
two very important dudes who sorta struck the tone of things to come although via a serpentine route