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site of major Indian battle of 1725, Custer, MI
4th Thoughts
July 3, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

I’m reading a new book about the Upper Midwest, late 1500’s - 1750ish.  The book is Indian Women and French Men; Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes, by Susan Sleeper-Smith - and I am reading it as avidly as my granddaughter listens to story hour. 

A Long Ago (sort of) American Camelot on the Mississippi
May 5, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

 I finally finished reading “Empire by Collaboration” by Robert Michael Morrisey. It is a history of the Mississippi River from what is now the general St. Louis area down to its confluence with the Ohio River. This is the area Len and I traveled to see the solar eclipse in August 2017.

Pere Marquette Memorial in Ludington
Missionary Types in the Mississippi Watershed in the 1600’s. Oh yeah.
November 1, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Happy All Saints Day.

Today (though it will probably be yesterday by the time I get this written) we are going to discuss Catholic missionary types who proselytized Mississippi watershed country in the mid-to-late 1600’s.

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What's in that Museum?
January 17, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Do you go to museums? I enjoy them, but I think they are more complicated than we give them credit for.

Fluyts and Taxes
December 7, 2017
Posted by Mary Beth

This is my take on a slow podcast that somewhere along the line became fascinating.  Ben Franklin’s World - https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/episode-161-smuggling-american-revolution/

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Wellington Ave UCC - Sanctuary movement, 1982
Peace Makers' Freedom Train / 1984
November 7, 2017
Posted by Mary Beth

This is my first published writing. It appeared in 1984 in The Other Side, a social-activist evangelical publication based in Philadelphia, PA.

Lincoln, Conflict, Character
August 7, 2017
Posted by Mary Beth

Instead of marinating in the political dysfunction around us, let's watch how an imperfect but worthy politican acted in his time and his crisis. 

Anne Hutchinson PERSISTED...
August 6, 2017
Posted by Mary Beth

“As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.” Anne Hutchinson

 Who was Anne Hutchinson? 

This Puritan woman was strong and smart. She PERSISTED in teaching Bible studies to women in her own home, which irritated Puritan male leaders who weren't as beloved ... and it didn't end well.  

The Boston Tea Party. "It's complicated..."
August 6, 2017
Posted by Mary Beth

Here’s my question. The "Tea Party” touts their patriotism as if they are patriotic and the rest of us aren't. Why? What happened at that first  Boston Tea Party? Why did those early patriots have one?

Obscene Wealth and Violent Pirates
August 5, 2017
Posted by Mary Beth

I read that today, February 17, is FACT Day!  I get excited about FACTS! You get enough genuine facts and you get a REALITY that works for humans. As opposed to a reality built on greed, drama, megalomania, injustice, and prejudice, which, as you may have noticed, makes life suck.  

Oh, you thought I was talking about the current administration?