Thursday, July 10, 2014
Powerful Sentence in a Local Obituary
He lived life to the fullest while he was able and enjoyed his memories later.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Jeanne Phillips ("Dear Abby") Singlehandedly Destroys Any Integrity In Amazon Reviewing?
Just when some of us have been trying to make Amazon a serious alternative to the corrupt, incompetent reviewing in the mainstream media, just when some of us are signing our real names and writing reviews better than anything that has been in the New York TIMES for decades, DEAR ABBY advises her readers to destroy the credibility of Amazon reviewing. How is a Dear Abby reader to deal with the friend's husband who has self-published a novel and wants her to "enter a great review on the Amazon page"?
Abby has the answer: "Find something you liked about the book and mention that on the Amazon page. You could call it a 'page turner' because you had to turn from Page 1 to Page 2, didn't you?"
Abby has the answer: "Find something you liked about the book and mention that on the Amazon page. You could call it a 'page turner' because you had to turn from Page 1 to Page 2, didn't you?"
Friday, July 4, 2014
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
For several weeks I have been working a piece about the Tryon Resolves, initially because several of my uncles and cousins signed that "Association" on August 14, 1775. I have had to study the controversy over the Mecklenburg Declaration, since starting in 1818 and going all through the 19th and far into the 20th century it took almost all attention away from the resolves at Liberty Point, Tryon County, and Halifax. I have been using for-pay newspaper archives to compile dozens of pdfs in different folders.
I don't like to be in the minority on any argument, never have, but I find myself asking why James Jack got on a horse and rode from Charlotte to Philadelphia to give the North Carolina delegates to the second Continental Congress a routine resolution and why the contents of the resolution caused such a furor when he stopped to rest his horse at Salisbury. I understand why the North Carolina delegates did not want to show his document to the whole Congress: there were delegates who would have gotten on their horses or in a stagecoach and fled back to their own colony rather than be associated with a truly radical declaration of independence.
Jack was not one of my uncles, but his cousin Joseph Jack was married to my Aunt Margaret Ewart, daughter of Robert Ewart (the Committee of Safety man) and sister-in-law of the Tryon signer Jonathan Price. If you read the aged James Jack's affidavit--well, as I read it I believe him, now. Maybe I had better stop working on my Tryon piece and post James Jack's certificate here, someway.
I don't like to be in the minority on any argument, never have, but I find myself asking why James Jack got on a horse and rode from Charlotte to Philadelphia to give the North Carolina delegates to the second Continental Congress a routine resolution and why the contents of the resolution caused such a furor when he stopped to rest his horse at Salisbury. I understand why the North Carolina delegates did not want to show his document to the whole Congress: there were delegates who would have gotten on their horses or in a stagecoach and fled back to their own colony rather than be associated with a truly radical declaration of independence.
Jack was not one of my uncles, but his cousin Joseph Jack was married to my Aunt Margaret Ewart, daughter of Robert Ewart (the Committee of Safety man) and sister-in-law of the Tryon signer Jonathan Price. If you read the aged James Jack's affidavit--well, as I read it I believe him, now. Maybe I had better stop working on my Tryon piece and post James Jack's certificate here, someway.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
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