BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA

NOAH WEBSTER GOES TO SCHOOL  IN CONNECTICUT (Circa 1765)

"As at other common schools, the books at Webster's 
schools, the books at Webster's school were limited 
to a King James Bible, a psalter, a catechism, and 
Thomas Dilworth's New Guide to the English Tongue. 
First published in London in 1740, Dilworth's was 
a beginners' spelling book, syllabarium, and reader 
that indoctrinated children in religious dogma. It 
sought to save 'poor creatures from the Slavery of 
Sin and Satan' by placing the word of God for a 
Lantern to our feet and a Light to our Paths." The 
word God appeared in every sentence of even the
 earliest lessons, with words of only three letters:
              
              No Man may put off the Law of God.
              The Way of God is no Ill Way.
               My Joy is in God all the Day.
               A bad Man is a Foe to God."

Harlow Giles Unger. The Life and Times of Noah Webster:
American Patriot (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998)
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THE LARGEST SCULPTURE IN THE WORLD, THE SIOUX WARRIOR ON
HIS HORSE -- ON PA SAPA, THE BLACK HILLS OVERLOOKING
CUSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA

"Fifty years of effort on the part of the sculptor
Korczak Ziolkowski and his wife and children have
just begun to nudge the man and his horse out of
what was once Thunderhead Mountain. In the half
century that the Ziolkowski family has worked,
millions of tons of rock have been moved, as they
attempt to create what will be the world's largest
sculpture...
   "It is a nice irony that the little town Crazy
Horse has come to brood over is named for his old
adversary George Armstrong Custer --Long Hair,
whose hair had been cut short on the day of his
last battle...."

Larry McMurtry. Crazy Horse (New York: 
A Lipper/Viking Book, 1999)

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"The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, 
in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will
 depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding 
a horse and pointing to his tribal land. "
Wikipedia
Address: Crazy Horse, SD 57730
Phone: (605) 673-4681
Artist: Korczak Ziolkowski
Construction started: 1948
Architect: Korczak Ziolkowski
Material: Pegmatite
Height: 564′
Dimensions: 564′ 0″ x 640′ 0″
Medium: Granite

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MARK RUSSELL & A FEW U.S. PRESIDENTS

"Presidents from Eisenhower to Trump caught the flak. 
He sang 'Bail to the Chief" for Richard M. Nixon, 
urged  George H.W. Bush to retire 'to a home for 
the chronically preppy,' likened Jimmy Carter's plan 
to streamline government to'putting racing stripes 
on an arthritic camel, and recalled that first seeing 
Ronald Reagan 'in the picture-frame department at 
Woolworth's between Gale Storm and Walter Pidgeon."
 
Robert D. McFadden. "Obituary for Mark Russell."
  New York Times (March 31,2023) 
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DOUBLE DACTYL by Neil Hickey

Higgledy piggledy
General Washington
Dallied with Sally and
Mortgaged the farm.
Martha took washing in,
Cursing the day that she
Incomprehensibly
Fell for his charm.

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He was in love with Sally Fairfax but she was married, 
so he married Martha Custis, who was rich.
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MAMIE PINK & THE PINK PALACE

Mamie Doud Eisenhower loved the color pink throughout
 her entire life. The First Lady wore a pink gown to 
her husband Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1953 presidential inauguration and used the color liberally in her 
White House decorations. The public noticed, nicknaming
 the Eisenhower White House “the Pink Palace,” and a 
hue known as “Mamie pink” became a national trend.

Source: Retro Renovation"
HISTORY QUIZ (April 1, 2023)
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WASHINGTON D.C. -The Compromised City

Founded on July 16, 1790, Washington, DC is unique 
among American cities because it was established 
by the Constitution of the United States to serve 
as the nation’s capital. You can read the actual 
line at the National Archives. From its beginning, 
it has been embroiled in political maneuvering, 
sectional conflicts, and issues of race, national 
identity, compromise, and, of course, power. Like 
many decisions in American history, the location 
of the new city was to be a compromise: Alexander 
Hamilton and northern states wanted the new federal 
government to assume Revolutionary War debts, and 
Thomas Jefferson and southern states wanted the 
capital placed in a location friendly to slave-holding agricultural interests.

Trivia Scoop (March 29, 2023)

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                 CHARLES PORTIS & AMERICANA
   

     Charles Portis --
     His novels transport us
     Into true Americana --i.e, True Grit.
     (A truer verse than this has yet to be writ).
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        DAVY CROCKETT 

      Parker, Fess --
      In the 1950's,children made a big fuss
      Over his Davy Crockett & his coonskin cap.
      (If you don't believe me, you can look it up.
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