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They're all history - either mine or somebody's whose dead and I'm reading
about them ;-)
posted by
FreeManWalking
on December 11, 2006 at 11:53 AM
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freeman
I've always loved the historical element of your blogs =)
posted by
MiaElla
on December 11, 2006 at 11:48 AM
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and yeah, real men are rough around the edges and I like them that way.
posted by
Blanche.
on December 10, 2006 at 6:07 PM
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Freemanwalking, you have to come to hear the Zydeco band I just heard
hear at CP, I met them all, Karen, who's from Texas, and a doctor and her husband, John and the bass, who sounds as though he's channeling Neil Young. It took me waaaay back, to when protest music had heart, soul and real full-blooded guts. When rock was young, yay!!! Ch
http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Blanche01/eck my link, I'll post more later......
posted by
Blanche.
on December 10, 2006 at 6:07 PM
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Passionflower - he was a bit rough around the edges but sometimes
America needs a leader who s that way.
posted by
FreeManWalking
on December 10, 2006 at 5:21 PM
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Holygrail - -I'm much too slow of a reader for that career
posted by
FreeManWalking
on December 10, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Strat - I passed through there once while visiting Cowpens
posted by
FreeManWalking
on December 10, 2006 at 5:19 PM
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Geez...he doesn't sound like a man I would have liked.
posted by
Passionflower
on December 10, 2006 at 2:46 PM
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How cool to be able to go right to the place where the subject of your reading lived. Good post! I still think you should be a book reviewer/critic...Oh, and I WISH I had a 20 in my pocket!
posted by
Holy_Grail
on December 10, 2006 at 11:13 AM
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Bel - my study of history is always helped by touching and seeing along
with reading
posted by
FreeManWalking
on December 10, 2006 at 10:38 AM
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Thanks TAPS - I'll have to look for that movie
posted by
FreeManWalking
on December 10, 2006 at 10:37 AM
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Oh this sounds like a wonderful day trip
To bad you didn't bring any pictures to share with us. 
I adore historical sites, there is something about walking along the paths of others who have shaped our world and wonder what they did, thought about and how things looked to through their eyes.
posted by
bel_1965
on December 10, 2006 at 10:13 AM
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FreeManWalking, I read this yesterday and got so interested in it that I forgot to comment. Instead, I ended up over at IMDb checking out my favorite portrayals of the man and his wife in movies. He was twice played by Charlton Heston and I especially liked Susan Hayward in
The President's Lady. Good writing.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 10, 2006 at 10:06 AM
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Can't he blocked me ages ago, for making too much sense. it befuddles him
posted by
Blanche.
on December 10, 2006 at 8:15 AM
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Hmmmmm.....is this an attempt to not click on Corbin?
posted by
FreeManWalking
on December 10, 2006 at 8:14 AM
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I personally celebrate Kwanza, and speak fluent Esperanto. It's my cultural
heritage as a Lapplander/American
posted by
Blanche.
on December 10, 2006 at 8:13 AM
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Andy Jackson is famous around my town here.
You see, he received that scar, at about age 14, in the jail here in my hometown -- he had been captured by the British earlier on, and legend has it he was able to watch the battle of Hobkirk Hill, about four miles up the road, from the window of his jail cell.
North and South Carolina still both claim that his birthplace was in each state -- he was born in a place called the Waxhaws, which currently is in SC but may well have been in NC according to boundaries drawn in 1780.
posted by
strat
on December 9, 2006 at 9:03 AM
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Well, cover my back then, while you're hiding back there!
posted by
Blanche.
on December 9, 2006 at 8:11 AM
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JAckson was one of the last hold outs as far as dueling. Maybe you
and your buddy Parnell can revive he tradition. But I'll hide behind a building Liberty Valance style to ensure the outcome.
posted by
FreeManWalking
on December 9, 2006 at 8:03 AM
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I can see where President Jackson might have taken offense at these words:
“I know of no great service you rendered the country, except taking a trip to Natchez with another man’s wife.”
Funny. I am glad though that dueling is only done verbally here on the blog, though.
Someday, I hope to come visit the sites you've mentioned. You've piqued my curiosity about the history.
posted by
Blanche.
on December 9, 2006 at 8:00 AM
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Wow, you've been busy writing, Freemanwalking, I'll have to get busy
reading. I've been distracted with other things, *grins*. I am feeling sooo much better.
posted by
Blanche.
on December 9, 2006 at 7:53 AM
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