An ancestor of mine, Edward Maria Wingfield, was the first President of Jamestown in 1607-1610. I would like to say he enjoyed great success but those years were known by violence, disease and starvation. The colony nearly did not make it but somehow hung on through conditions I could not imagine. Today’s youth have no concept of what that struggle looked like and instead paint those settlers as the bad guys. Sickens me.
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Top shelf history lesson and how it ties into today. If more understood history like this less we would have to worry about. Can not stop thinking how close we are getting for a trigger into Bosnia in the 1990s.
An ancestor of mine, Edward Maria Wingfield, was the first President of Jamestown in 1607-1610. I would like to say he enjoyed great success but those years were known by violence, disease and starvation. The colony nearly did not make it but somehow hung on through conditions I could not imagine. Today’s youth have no concept of what that struggle looked like and instead paint those settlers as the bad guys. Sickens me.
My mother loved to take us as children to walk the beauty of the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia.
Once, when coming home from college, she told me to pull over near one section of Wissahickon Creek.
We walked until we came to a small cave.
It had a plaque saying early American settlers lived there.
She said, "See that cave? Your ancestors lived there for years when they first got here until they could build a house."
I have never forgotten that.
If the WWIII advocating crowd gets their way, we may be returning to caves.
And no, the young are not prepared.
When I put out a tractor fire several years ago, all they did was stare at the fire...or film it on their cell phones.
https://poetslife.blogspot.com/2021/10/12-lessons-from-tractor-hay-baler-fire.html
Top shelf history lesson and how it ties into today. If more understood history like this less we would have to worry about. Can not stop thinking how close we are getting for a trigger into Bosnia in the 1990s.
Agree.