We broke a King and we built a road
Tonight my mother and I baked two apple pies, one pumpkin pie, and a pear cake. There was serious consideration given to pseudo-pecan according to a recipe from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie, but in the end we decided not. This is not a year in which we are knocking ourselves out for Thanksgiving, especially since it will be composed of me and spatch and my parents and telecommunications. Halfway through the evening, my mother realized she had forgotten to order the celery with her week's groceries and therefore there was none to be cooked down with the mushrooms and shallots into the stuffing base and we just let it go. To be alive at each marker of the year is the important thing.
Earlier this afternoon I visited the memorial to John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thanks to the Pequot War, the three people he owned during his tenure as master of Ten Hills Farm were Native American—two a married couple. I do not know that their names are known.
I am witha_reasonable_man in thinking we could do worse than to revive Fast Day.
selkie, but in the end we decided not. This is not a year in which we are knocking ourselves out for Thanksgiving, especially since it will be composed of me and spatch and my parents and telecommunications. Halfway through the evening, my mother realized she had forgotten to order the celery with her week's groceries and therefore there was none to be cooked down with the mushrooms and shallots into the stuffing base and we just let it go. To be alive at each marker of the year is the important thing.Earlier this afternoon I visited the memorial to John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thanks to the Pequot War, the three people he owned during his tenure as master of Ten Hills Farm were Native American—two a married couple. I do not know that their names are known.
I am with
a_reasonable_man in thinking we could do worse than to revive Fast Day.
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It's known around here, although I didn't know the connection to your wars. I actually think of the Pequot War as being more obscure.
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I AM JACK'S LACK OF SURPRISE.
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Starting in 1970, Peter Bellamy began a lifetime project of setting Kipling to music, often to traditional tunes which he believed the poet had had in mind while composing, sometimes original ones which just sounded older than dirt; it can be rewardingly difficult to tell which was which. I fell into this information rather suddenly in 2006 with the discovery of The Widow's Uniform (1996), which is technically the incidental music for a stage production but also an excellent Bellamy-Kipling cover album. It took me a little longer to track down Bellamy's original albums. At the moment, Oak, Ash & Thorn (1970), Merlin's Isle of Gramarye (1972), and Peter Bellamy sings the Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling (1976) look currently available on CD, along with The Maritime England Suite (1982) which incorporates several pieces of Kipling. Keep on Kipling (1982) and Mr Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs (1989) are out of print and worth snagging if you can find them. I've never heard any of the recordings from the cassette-only Soldiers Three (1990). If you turn out to be one of the people who doesn't like Bellamy's voice, his settings have been frequently recorded by other artists, cf. The Widow's Uniform or the anthology Oak Ash Thorn (2010). I do, though, and his singing is what reintroduced me to Kipling as an adult.
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A LOT LESS THAN BEFORE I GOT TO IT.
(But there are leftovers, so the answer is essentially yes.)
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Maybe it was that I was going to ask if the "and 3 people" was written in chalk on the actual stone, or whether it had been shopped into the photo, and maybe I decided that obviously it was on the stone ... and maybe then I didn't stop to wonder whether it was there when you came to it, or whether it was something you (collectively) added.
But *now* I can ask that.
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I chalked it very fast because of passersby, hence the rather appalling hand (no one bothered me about it, I just don't like to be within six feet of strangers anymore, funny), and discovered in the process that the stick of chalk had less of a point on it than I had thought and in taking the photo that the color showed much more clearly in person than in pixels. But it was there until it was washed off and I hope people saw it and thought. I think it's important information.
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