Island at War II
Posted on December 9, 2011 by James RileyWell, shoot. The next four episodes of Island at War, though very good, seem to err in the Desperate Hausfraus direction. Sleeping with the enemy, of course, is a dramatic staple. It’s the very stuff of espionage films and there can’t be anything more poignant than losing in battle and knowing the enemy has taken […]Continue Reading »
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Island at War
Posted on December 8, 2011 by James RileyRedeeming the Time on Netflix So far, this series, a fictional story set during the World War II occupation of the British Channel Islands, is just stunning on all levels: the performances are compelling, the art direction is gorgeous, and the light! It certainly seems divine, since it has that breakfast-in-an-Irish-cottage quality, where everything feels […]Continue Reading »
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Raise the Militia
Posted on December 7, 2011 by James RileyReprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette, July 5, 1771 As no nation or people can be secure from their enemies and preserve their independency without the military art, it must give great pleasure to every friend to his country, and the British nation, to see the present revival of military discipline in this and the neighboring colonies. […]Continue Reading »
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What do we do about PIRATES?
Posted on December 6, 2011 by James RileyWatch our procedural, bureaucratic Admiral Mullen talk about pirates and then re-visit an age of moral clarity on the matter: Reprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette, June 21, 1771 New York, June 10: Extract of a letter from Kingston, Jamaica, April 10. “The 18th of March last was tried and convicted at a court of […]Continue Reading »
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“The Gliegendorfs Are Here..”
Posted on December 5, 2011 by James RileyDo people still call on each other at Christmas? Drop by for a visit? I’m not sure, post-Facebook, whether this is still done, but if they do, you need a gift-giving strategy. It could happen: you could be upstairs, just out of the shower, toweling off, when your eleven year old yells out, “heah, […]Continue Reading »
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She Comes Only With Her Shift
Posted on December 5, 2011 by James RileyFrom Kalm’s Travels into North America we find this observation about marriage customs in the colonies: “…There is a very peculiar diverting custom here, in regard to marrying. When a man dies, and leaves his widow in great poverty, or so that she cannot pay all the debts with what little she has left, and that, notwithstanding […]Continue Reading »
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Hannah Snell, Amazon Maiden
Posted on December 4, 2011 by James RileyReprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette, April 19, 1771 London, January 2, 1771: Friday last a press-gang was very busy at Newington-Butts, and having impressed a poor countryman from his wife and children, the distressed woman followed her husband with lamentations, which induced many women to sally from their houses. Among the Amazons was the […]Continue Reading »
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Irish Mobs
Posted on December 3, 2011 by James RileyReprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette — May 24, 1771 When an Irish mob are at the height, their method of preventing the military acting against them is singular and very political; they secure the sons of several nobility, and placing them in front, march thus wherever they please, always facing the military. When the […]Continue Reading »
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Going Dutch on the Poor
Posted on December 2, 2011 by James RileyRe-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, May 24, 1771 “Kept to Constant Labour” “Industry and Frugality are the Hands of Fortune” This maxim is no where better observed than in Holland, a Country naturally poor, but by the Industry of the Inhabitants made populous and opulent unequalled by any Nation in the World. The maintenance […]Continue Reading »
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