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J6 Is an easy one. So lets mellow out a bit.

1893 American poet, historian, and folklorist Carl Sandburg, whose Abraham Lincoln: The War Years won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940, was born.

He lived here in 1945 at the now Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, located at 81 Carl Sandburg Lane near Hendersonville in the village of Flat Rock, North Carolina. It preserves Connemara, the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer Carl Sandburg.

Operating Hours & Seasons - Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

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Happiness Create an image from this poem
by Carl Sandburg
I ASKED the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell
me what is happiness.

And I went to famous executives who boss the work of
thousands of men.

They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though
I was trying to fool with them
And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along
the Desplaines river
And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with
their women and children
and a keg of beer and an
accordion.
 
I absolutely love Connemara. The house is super interesting in detail, the trails all around are excellent, and the goat farm is a delight for kids. My daughter loved the place as a child. I went as a parent volunteer twice with her classes. There are activities all around the property for kids and those were great fun too.

Sandburg was amazing...

I wrote this about Sandburg for his death day. “There are men who cannot be bought.” It strikes me as odd - even remarkable - that at the height of The Cold War this nation’s Primary Poet was a socialist living in Flat Rock, NC, Henderson County, Appalachia. Entangled in a struggle to the death (it seemed) with communism in those times, some thinking Americans could/would discern subtlety and note the strength in difference. Not to gloss too idyllic, to be sure monsters like Red-Baiting Joseph McCarthy were hard at work capping off thought and squelching speech and the voices of African Americans and other POC were hard-pressed to be heard, their rights only partially realized, but even in those times a poet could make a mark and be feted by the elected.
“Connemara,” the Carl and Lillian Sandburg historic home-place is one of my favorite spaces on earth. His poems are in ‘people-speak’ in the main, not to suggest there’s no flourish, just that the words tend to be of common usage though fitted in often sparkling combinations. Connemara is fun, the house is homey, the goats timeless, and the grounds serene. Sandburg won 3 Pulitzer Prizes (1919, 1940, 1951) for prose, ‘history,’ and poetry. In 1919 as a journalist he wrote ‘The Chicago Race Riots, July, 1919.’ He also saw to the newspaper publication of the NAACP platform. Both of these actions today would have doubtless gotten him blacklisted by the UNC System Governing Boards and the majority in the NC General Assembly — IF those panels could first get past his socialism. So low we have sunken.

In 1908 his “You and Your Job” pamphlet bore a Socialist Party imprint. In it he wrote, “I say that a system such as the capitalist system, putting such obstacles as starvation, underfeeding, overwork, bad housing, and perpetual uncertainty of work in the lives of human beings, is a pitiless, ignorant, blind, reckless, cruel mockery of a system.”

Among his papers the poem below, never published, was discovered. It imparts a message to the country about violence for all time.
A Revolver
by Carl Sandburg
Here is a revolver.
It has an amazing language all its own.
It delivers unmistakable ultimatums.
It is the last word.
A simple, little human forefinger can tell a terrible story with it.
Hunger, fear, revenge, robbery hide behind it.
It is the claw of the jungle made quick and powerful.
It is the club of the savage turned to magnificent precision.
It is more rapid than any judge or court of law.
It is less subtle and treacherous than any one lawyer or ten.
When it has spoken, the case can not be appealed to the supreme
court, nor any mandamus nor any injunction nor any stay of execution
come in and interfere with the original purpose.
And nothing in human philosophy persists more strangely than the
old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the
most revolvers.

The On This Day entry follows:
#OTD (July 22) in 1967 Poet, Journalist, Biographer, and Musician Carl Sandburg died at his home-#Connemara, in Flat Rock, NC, #WNC. A socialist, he evoked the spirit of America for many who have labored and respect work, his Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Lincoln was an Epic (but short on attribution). He was the son of Swedish immigrants, and in his early years he hoboed, and worked many jobs from waiter to agriculture. He wrote on the Red Summer in his ‘The Chicago Race Riots, July, 1919.’ At Connemara he penned poems and music and his wife Lillian raised world-renowned goats. Today that beautiful place is a National Historic Site.
“...at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that ‘Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.’” ~ ‘Carl Sandburg: His Life and Works,’ by North Callahan. Prolific Poet Carl Sandburg

"Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can't be bought". ~ Carl Sandburg
 
Elvis Aaron Presley[a] (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Presley's energized performances and interpretations of songs, and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and initial controversy.

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So many. One if my faves.

 
Maybe should wait until next year to post this, but on this date in history (this morning, actually) the BT in AB burned down. For the uninitiated, that's the Beach Tavern in Atlantic Beach. I've spent many a bleary hour in that joint. Hope the Tackle Box can handle the overflow...
 
Crazy Horse's last battle was against the United States Cavalry on January 8, 1877 in Montana:



  • Battle
    Crazy Horse and his Oglala Lakota men fought against the U.S. Cavalry in a losing battle. The Oglala Lakota were outnumbered, low on ammunition, and forced to use outdated weapons.
  • Aftermath
    The defeat at the Battle of Wolf Mountain, combined with the relentless pursuit by the military, convinced Crazy Horse that surrender was inevitable.
  • Surrender
    On May 7, 1877, Crazy Horse led 1,100 followers into Fort Robinson to surrender.
Crazy Horse - Army Heritage Center Foundation
Crazy Horse was a respected leader who spent much of his life in active resistance to the United States Army. He was never defeated in battle by the Americans, and even the Army admitted he was never captured. However, the U.S. Army murdered Crazy Horse while he was in "protective custody" barely four months after his surrender.
 
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Until 2015 I had a subscription to ‘The Progressive Farmer Magazine.’ My father held one until he died and my mother continued the subscription until she passed in 2012. She also carried TPF’s much more successful companion publication for women, ‘Southern Living.’ I’m pretty sure that my Grandpa Dunn kept ‘TPF’ most of his life as well, certainly his elder years. I loved it as a boy for the beautiful glossy photographs of cows, horses, and oh-so-familiar scenes of the southern countryside. It mirrored the life I was living in very attractive and alluring imagery.

Deddy surely gained from the articles about feed, fencing, and farm futures. It was only many years later that I learned that there had once been a political side to the magazine. It was a bit if a ‘doh’ Moment frankly - after all, right there it was in the title - Progressive. The politics carried by ‘TPF’ was not progressive in 100% modern terms. Yes, it stood for education, healthcare, science, good roads, and investment in infrastructure, but there was also at times a Boll Weevil Democrat side to the promoted policies. It was, for the time it took political stands, essentially segregationist for years with a transition to ‘gradualist’ on issues of race.

Clarence Poe was the editor from 1899 until 1954 of ‘TPF.’ I believe that sometime in the late 1950s the political edge receded and the magazine backed away from that early 20th century Southern Democrat worldview. Indeed, at that time it left behind the political altogether. Whether ideology was in play or not I suspect there was a little homeland of my birth partisanship in the love of the magazine in #DeepChatham. You see, Poe, who became the editor at 18 and owner at 22, was from Chatham County. Born and raised near Gulf, Poe began working on the magazine at 16. He turned down a scholarship to Wake Forest College at 18 to run the magazine.

For over half a century Poe, self-taught and a natural writer, was one of the most influential voices in the region. Imagine for a moment that he promoted cooperative marketing, much in the mold of the old Farmer’s Alliance, and the label of Progressive is more understandable. Indeed historical context is important to understanding how the working class of the South found New Deal policies, also cooperative and collectivist in so many facets, attractive.

I think on what might have been had white people in the region not been hoodwinked into the continuing embrace of racism against their own best working class interests. But that’s an old, old song sung very effectively by Southern elites from the antebellum period of enslavement and beyond. Sadly that tune resonates far too loudly for far too many white workers to this day.

Poe also wrote books. His sense of humor was wry and quite rural southern evidenced by the title of his autobiography, ‘My First 80 Years.’ His growing-up environment was a key part of his identity and approach to understanding the world. He also penned, ‘Southerner in Europe: being chiefly some old world lessons for new world needs as set forth in fourteen letters of foreign travel,’ True Tales of the South at War,’ and “Where Half the World Is Waking Up.”

It was #OnThisDay (Jan.10) in 1881 that Clarence Poe, the epitome of what author Rob Christiansen has dubbed, ‘The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics’ was born. Progressive Farmer Editor Clarence Poe Born
 
donbosco said:
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Until 2015 I had a subscription to ‘The Progressive Farmer Magazine.’ My father held one until he died and my mother continued the subscription until she passed in 2012. She also carried TPF’s much more successful companion publication for women, ‘Southern Living.’ I’m pretty sure that my Grandpa Dunn kept ‘TPF’ most of his life as well, certainly his elder years. I loved it as a boy for the beautiful glossy photographs of cows, horses, and oh-so-familiar scenes of the southern countryside. It mirrored the life I was living in very attractive and alluring imagery.

Deddy surely gained from the articles about feed, fencing, and farm futures. It was only many years later that I learned that there had once been a political side to the magazine. It was a bit if a ‘doh’ Moment frankly - after all, right there it was in the title - Progressive. The politics carried by ‘TPF’ was not progressive in 100% modern terms. Yes, it stood for education, healthcare, science, good roads, and investment in infrastructure, but there was also at times a Boll Weevil Democrat side to the promoted policies. It was, for the time it took political stands, essentially segregationist for years with a transition to ‘gradualist’ on issues of race.

Clarence Poe was the editor from 1899 until 1954 of ‘TPF.’ I believe that sometime in the late 1950s the political edge receded and the magazine backed away from that early 20th century Southern Democrat worldview. Indeed, at that time it left behind the political altogether. Whether ideology was in play or not I suspect there was a little homeland of my birth partisanship in the love of the magazine in #DeepChatham. You see, Poe, who became the editor at 18 and owner at 22, was from Chatham County. Born and raised near Gulf, Poe began working on the magazine at 16. He turned down a scholarship to Wake Forest College at 18 to run the magazine.

For over half a century Poe, self-taught and a natural writer, was one of the most influential voices in the region. Imagine for a moment that he promoted cooperative marketing, much in the mold of the old Farmer’s Alliance, and the label of Progressive is more understandable. Indeed historical context is important to understanding how the working class of the South found New Deal policies, also cooperative and collectivist in so many facets, attractive.

I think on what might have been had white people in the region not been hoodwinked into the continuing embrace of racism against their own best working class interests. But that’s an old, old song sung very effectively by Southern elites from the antebellum period of enslavement and beyond. Sadly that tune resonates far too loudly for far too many white workers to this day.

Poe also wrote books. His sense of humor was wry and quite rural southern evidenced by the title of his autobiography, ‘My First 80 Years.’ His growing-up environment was a key part of his identity and approach to understanding the world. He also penned, ‘Southerner in Europe: being chiefly some old world lessons for new world needs as set forth in fourteen letters of foreign travel,’ True Tales of the South at War,’ and “Where Half the World Is Waking Up.”

It was #OnThisDay (Jan.10) in 1881 that Clarence Poe, the epitome of what author Rob Christiansen has dubbed, ‘The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics’ was born. Progressive Farmer Editor Clarence Poe Born
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Bunch of friggin commies you are. ✌️

I can't be sure but I believe we lived next door to his grandson 1n 1962. He was getting his PHD in ag at woofu. I remember my mother telling me his grandfather was married to someone NC famous as well as something of a name himsel. They were very Southern. His son and I were friends that year and a half.

And I can't believe you left off Poe Hall, a semi-iconic ncsu building named after him which relatively recently became the poster boy for indoor pollutants. lol

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Well, Clarence was married to the daughter of Governor Aycock, the so-called "Education Governor" but also an overt member of the Red Shirts (a KKK-like, unmasked, racist militia). Poe was also on the Board of Trustees of the UNC System when it was essentially the same thing as what we think of today as The Board of Governors. He also has honorary degrees from both UNC and ncsu.

My Deddy knew him. The book that is briefly mentioned, My First 80 Years, is a good historical read in many ways.
 
Common Sense published

On this day in 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a 50-page pamphlet that sold more than 500,000 copies within a few months and called for a war of independence that would become the American Revolution.

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On this day in 49 BCE, Julius Ceasar crossed the Rubicon. And the rest, as the saying goes, is history.
 
grimes70 said:
Common Sense published

On this day in 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a 50-page pamphlet that sold more than 500,000 copies within a few months and called for a war of independence that would become the American Revolution.

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The numbers have been pretty much debunked at this point and came from Thomas Paine himself as well as a biographer 100 years later that didn't have access to sales records because they didn't exist.

allthingsliberty.com

Thomas Paine’s Inflated Numbers - Journal of the American Revolution

Myth: Within months of its publication, 120,000 copies (or 100,000 or 150,000 or 500,000) of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense were sold in the rebellious colonies. Busted: Although the pamphlet circulated widely and certainly made its mark, only scant print records and no sales records survive, so we...
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Anglo-Zulu War

In 1867 the British Empire successfully managed to impart a federation-style political system on its Canadian territory, and it believed a similar setup might work well in its African colonies. To that end, the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, was sent to begin preparations for this act.

On December 11, 1878 he issued an ultimatum to the Zulu Kingdom to submit or face war. They refused and Britain declared war on 11 January, suffering a heavy loss in the opening battle of the war at Isandlwana. The war was notable for several battles, including the defense of an area known as Rorke's Drift when a small force of around 140 British Army soldiers defended their post against 3,000-4,000 Zulu combatants. This was dramatized in the 1964 film Zulu.

Eventually the British defeated the Zulu and annexed their territory. The last head of the French royal House of Bonaparte, Napoléon, was also killed in the war, shocking Europe who saw him as the last hope to restore the Bonaparte dynasty on the throne.

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Loved the movie as a kid.
 
1966 The live-action TV series Batman premiered on ABC; a huge hit, it starred Adam West as the Caped Crusader and Burt Ward as Robin.



Such a sweet and innocent time. That's us boomers. The new generations have the much darker portrayal..
 
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