Re: A Hodge-Podge of Thoughts, Facts, and Ideas ...

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: "Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,
: What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned 
: Several seasons with their treasons
: Wrap the babe in scarlet covers call it your own."

: First of all, congratulations to your son and his bride-to-be on their upcoming marriage!

: Rich--thanks for posting the picture of this lovely lady.

: Elaine--I do hope you won't be too peeved with Rich for doing so.  Us old guys feel the need to recoup a bit of the past when we here the whistle of that fleeting arrow, and there's nothing like "events" in our kids' lives to make us hear it.  I'm sure there's a parallel process for women. 

: I'm looking forward to seeing the piece on Jumonville.

: It has been very much on my mind for a while.

: Rich posted on it back in May on the anniversary date, as I recall.

: Quite coincidentally, I was in the library a few days later researching an unrelated matter, and came across Fred Anderson's "The Crucible of War".

: I was rather astonished at the account of Jumonville in the prologue of the book, in which the "half-king" Tanaghrisson "washed his hands in Jumonville's brain", and left Washington looking like a babe in the woods, not unlike our Duncan, at the mercy of Iroquois politics.

: I wanted to wait until I had read the book through to post on it.  Sad to say, but I've had it out from the library three times, and have only managed to get through the first couple of hundred pages.

: Once upon a time, I'd go through periods where I'd read a book a day.  Now I'm lucky if I read one every few months.

: Ouch, I think that arrow nicked me. 


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: : ABOVE: One of my favorite Lainey pictures ... taken in 1982 ... posted for absolutely no reason, other than to have her beat the living daylights out of me later!

: ...A Mohicanlander (who shall remain nameless, for the time being) is doing a piece on Jumonville Glen ... the spark (lit by George Washington, by the way) that ignited the F&I War.

: ...plus have a son getting married on October 20. 


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