27 March 2022
07 February 2022
more from my g-grandpa
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30 January 2022
old people
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02 January 2022
holidays and 2021 book learning
but i'm glad i have the beagle, who wants nothing more than to be right where i am, which can get annoying sometime since i typically don't like clingy things — also too i know this juggler who is always wanting to show me his wares, as it were, and that is good, too, except that he also triggers those clingy issues, along with a number of others i didn't even know i have --- i continue to work on all of that
throughout i have not felt particularly productive, so i've been thrown into that briar patch of reading, with the dog curled up beside me, if not trying to get in my lap — the list below is in more or less the reverse order in which i read them — clearly i am a fairly indiscriminate reader, as long as it's history — i tried to pick a "best of" but could not, so the * system will have to suffice — i'm glad my eyes still work
in addition to the items listed below (which do not include all of those which i have started but not been called upon to complete), i re-read three volumes of ackroyd's history of england, and started a fourth, reading more or less continuously, unlike the brief fits and starts when i read them to begin with, which makes for a better experience — also too the john quincy adams bio, which was one of the best of the year, mentioned that he was in the habit of reading the bible through each year — so i started to re-read the bible (i read it once in my early years) and actually got through genesis and a little bit of exodus, but got tired of the incest, violence, genocide, and what not and had to quit — maybe i'll take up proverbs
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (2014)
Ian Mortimer, Henry V: The Warrior King of 1415 (2017)
Helen Carr, The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster (2021)
Ian Mortimer, Henry IV: The Righteous King (2014)
Katheryn Warner, Richard II: A True King’s Fall (2017)
*Ian Mortimer, Edward III: The Perfect King (2018)
Marc Morris, King John, Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta (2016)
*Kathryn Warner, Edward II: The Unconventional King (2017)
Catherine Arnold, Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History (2018)
**Heather Cox Richardson, Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre (2010)
Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (2016)
**John T. Ellisor, The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier (2010)
***Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (2020)
*Steven Palmer and Iván Molina, eds. The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics (2004)
***Emily Carr, Klee Wyck (1941)
Roland Ennos, The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization (2020)
Peter Ackroyd, The History of England, Vol. VI: Innovation (2021)
Edward J Watts, The Final Pagan Generation: Rome’s Unexpected Path to Christianity (2020)
***William J. Cooper, The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics (2017)
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Peril (2021)
*Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters (2017)
Tom Nichols, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy (2021)
Michael Lewis, Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity (2009)
**Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (2021)
***Nancy Marie Brown, Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them (2015)
*Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 (2001)
Erin Stewart Mauldin, Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South (2018)
***Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (2019)
***Martin Padgett, A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution (2021)
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, Antiquities of Athens: Measured and Delineated by James Stuart, FRS and FSA, and Nicholas Revett, Painters and Architects (2007)
David Cannadine, Westminster Abbey: A Church in History (2019)
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
John Goff, Salem's Witch House: A Touchstone to Antiquity (2009)
*William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)
***Mark Peterson, The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 (2019)
***Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (2020)
Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015)
***Virginia Postrel, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (2020)
**William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983)
Graham Bush, Old London, Photographed by Henry Dixon and Alfred and John Bool for the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London
Wick Griswold, A History of the Connecticut River (2012)
William Wood, New Englands Prospect: A True, Lively, and Experimental Description of That Part of America, Commonly Called New England (1635)
William Henry Carpenter, The History of Connecticut: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (2018 reprint)
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19 December 2021
transitions
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12/19/2021 08:08:00 PM
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04 November 2021
hallelujah
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11/04/2021 12:44:00 AM
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20 October 2021
holy scripture
in olden times i read the bible all the way through, twice --- inspired by john quincy adams who endeavored to read it through each year, i started the same today --- genesis is a big old mess. what with lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt and then his daughters getting him drunk so they could have his babies and what not --- plus multiple wives and concubines all over the place and wierd sacrifices and what not --- omg ---
but the new english translation is a good one, a more intelligible version of king james --- i will continue
then robt walks in with dumpster books, including the "metaphysical bible dictionary" --- the sweet baby jesus is speaking to me!
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18 October 2021
fresh times
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10/18/2021 12:25:00 AM
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15 October 2021
the beagle
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10/15/2021 02:19:00 PM
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images from the past
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07 October 2021
whiney me
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17 August 2021
lost causes
there is no sense of proportion or nuance in the campaign to rid public space of traitorous memorials to "the lost cause," a campaign i whole-heartedly endorse --- and the latest, removing the lion of lucerne replica from oakland cemetery, makes me a little ill --- it is a giant tombstone for all the unknown confederate dead (and there were a lot of those poor fkrs), the unluckiest of those riled up to die in a poor man's fight in a rich man's war --- the traces of red paint when it was most recently vandalized only add to its story --- but they're removing it for safe-keeping, doncha know --- bullshit --- nobody wants to go to the trouble to interpret it properly
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8/17/2021 06:03:00 PM
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05 August 2021
"when there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me"
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29 July 2021
ancestry.real
my g-grandpa hart might not have been a visionary like finster or eddie martin, but he had his own special mix of preacher and artist --- born in 1857, died a hundred years later when i was eight years old --- i am glad our paths at least crossed in real time --- even if we never actually conversed, i feel like i know him, from old photographs, my grandma's reminiscences of their conversations, and most of all from his writing, which i am now tasked with preserving ---
96th birthday, may 1953 --- he's at center in this photograph and that's me at lower right
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18 July 2021
debris from the gene pool
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