Comments on: Fort Necessity and Family Reunions, Oh My!

By: That Girl

That Girl — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:08:40 +0000

The law about liquer changed sometimes last year but the stores so far have not.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:24:43 +0000

I regularly run into people who brag about their ancestors. I am related to some of these people. Invariably, they cite some signer of the Declaration of Independence, or perhaps a medieval English monarch. But if ya got 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grands and so forth, once you go back four or five centuries, virtually everybody is gonna have a few nobles and famous writers in the ol’ tree. But most of that vast number are going to have been peasants, the sort of folk whose lives were, as Hobbes reminds us, nasty, brutish, and short.

As for the history displays… I’m thrilled anyone is selling Zinn in a musuem bookstore. Given that most museums exist to reinforce dominant narratives, even small signs of subversion are welcome.

By: j0lt

j0lt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:21:21 +0000

It’s the whole state. You can buy wine & hard stuff at state stores and beer, only by the case, at beer stores, with the exceptions for bars as you found. It is highly irritating.

I never thought of geneaology as privileged before, so thanks for opening that window.