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John Adams [Video]

James Riley — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:55:50 +0000

This is the chatty, gossipy, dismissive side of our 2nd president. You’re going to love hearing what he has to say about the John Green family of Stafford Springs, Connecticut. People pick on John Adams, but he didn’t spring ex nihilo out of the New England mist. America was built, in large part, on the Puritan […]

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1771 — A Day in the Life of a Country Lawyer

James Riley — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:01:22 +0000

More Glorious Times Anon In June of 1771, the travelling attorney, John Adams, then thirty-five years old, had this to record in his journal about a day on the circuit court: Overtook Judge Cushing in his old curricle and two lean horses, and Dick, his negro, at his right hand, driving the curricle. This is the […]

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HBO’s John Adams

James Riley — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:27:41 +0000

I’ve been re-watching HBO’s John Adams, along with the “making of” bonus material, and while it is true enough that I would be happy with just their wig budget, let alone their green screen and CGI budget, I can’t help but comment about the choices they made in their interpretation of the facts. (This is […]

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I’ll Buy it or I’ll Rent it — Someday

James Riley — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:05:21 +0000

There’s a “metric” out there I wish I knew but can’t seem to find on Google, perhaps because television production companies keep it a secret, but I guess I would call it the “delayed admission” revenue arc of a show. For example, the first season of the Andy Griffith Show, shot in 1960, can be […]

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Expectations – Patriotic, Christian and Rogue

James Riley — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:59:54 +0000

One follower of our project, writes: ..I was expecting a video which told me more about early America and our Founding Fathers, before, during and after the American Revolution, and not this type of story. I look forward to your other upcoming productions and hope that you will give us true historic stories of our […]

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The Accent Thing

James Riley — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:55:54 +0000

Of all the many semi-lucid critiques of Courage, New Hampshire, I find the commentary on accents the most amusing. According to Alex Pareenee of Salon.com: As proof of the producers’ commitment to historical accuracy, the British are all evil and speak with British accents, while the colonists are mostly good and speak with (wildly varying) […]

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