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J.D. Salinger and Howard Zinn run off that crazy cliff
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I’m standing on...
View ArticleHow Christian were our Founding Fathers?
It’s a question that we’ve discussed here many times over the past half-dozen years – how Christian were the founding fathers? And this weekend’s New York Times magazine goes into a great deal of depth...
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David Landrum on the launch of Two James…. the first distillery in Detroit...
As you may have heard, a new distillery will soon be opening in the Corktown section of Detroit, not too far from where our friend Lisa Waud will be opening the new flower shop I told you about a few...
View ArticleHaving attempted unsuccessfully to convince us that his sympathies don’t lie...
Yesterday, we saw a focused, scripted Donald Trump attempt to put our minds at ease and convince us that, despite what it might have looked like in the days following the attack on Charlottesville, he...
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Thankfully, Jean Henry’s ancestor did not get my ancestor killed at the...
On this site a few days ago, in a conversation about the misdeeds of our ancestors, Jean Henry mentioned that a relative of hers, Colonel Ephraim Doolittle of Shoreham, Vermont, was likely responsible...
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It looks as though my great, great, great, great, great grandfather, Clark...
While I’m tempted to make the case that my family’s Wise line goes all the way back to Colonel John Wise (1617-1695), who is thought to have arrived in the Virginia Colony from England in 1635, I think...
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