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Quarantine Diary #174 9/3/2020 Where Are Our Founding Fathers & Moms Now?
September 3, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

The photos are all from Franc Garcia, who took them in Kenosha last week. Thank you, Franc.

Part I.

Quarantine Diary #69 6/1/2020 1872 & Tonight's News
June 1, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

13th Amendment - ratified in 1865

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Quarantine Diary #32 4/14/2020 Don't defend defunct forts
April 14, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

I haven’t slept well in two nights.  I pop wide awake about 2:00 and then listen to podcasts, look at boring YouTube videos (so many crafts one can make with concrete, none that include Jimmy Hoffa), practice relaxing my muscles, practice staring at dots behind my eyelids -and finally at 5:00AM I fall asleep.

Let's go to Canada. It will be beautiful and convenient and nothing will get too crazy.
September 17, 2019
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Hi! Len and I returned home at 1:30AM from our 15-day road trip through eastern Canada and Maine and more.  

An afternoon in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
September 17, 2019
Posted by Mary Beth

Sault is a French word that mean topsy-turvy as in the rapids on the St. Mary river that tumbles between the US and Canada. Or summersaults. Isn’t that cute?

site of major Indian battle of 1725, Custer, MI
4th Thoughts
July 3, 2019
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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
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 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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