Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "The Execution of Captain George Kendall" video.
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@davea6314
WOW!! Great information! I love this because I love all history, it's the details of everyday life that governed the activities of regular people (like foot soldiers!) that fascinate me. I like finding out about the regular lives (without servants, etc...) of how people coped with survival in a usually harsh environment. I read once that Davy Crockett was "hired out" at the age of ten by his father, to go on a long journey with a man driving stock over a trail to another town, a journey that would take many months, and fraught with all the usual hazards: weather, indians, thieves, stock illness, everything. Davy had no say, and was sent off to earn his keep with a total stranger! He was lucky in that the man was tough, but fair, and treated him well for the times. He didn't get home for 2 to 3 years (he probably was not anxious to go back to his uncaring, always in debt father who would certainly sell him again to anyone he owed money to). This early experience laid the foundation for his legend as a fearless hunter and fighter. I still find it just incredible, trying to imagine day to day survival for a small child in that world! Thank you for the info, I really appreciate it!!
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@davea6314
I started college a long time ago, planning to study cultural anthropology, but never finished anything! I was relieved when I finally found out I had dyslexia, it wasn't diagnosed when I was a kid (I was born in 1961, when dinosaurs walked the earth!😁). I could, however, read incredibly fast, since my dad had taught me to speed read as a kid...my parents read all the time, we had a big library and I was allowed to dig out anything and read it. History always mesmerized me, especially since in school, teachers were obviously passing on badly out of date information and I could never get over how boring they made everything compared to the exciting, first person accounts I came across here and there. Schools had very old libraries back then as well, there were some incredible finds! No one seemed to have read thousands of rare, old historical accounts! To be fair, by the late 60s, all my teachers had been slogging away since WW2, and they were all just waiting to retire...
I still kick myself for not going with education, it's my only regret, but I've had a fantastic life beyond my wildest dreams, no complaints, I like where I ended up, and my husband has always supported my endless old bookstore searching, I love finding old first editions and memoirs of regular people...
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AOL warez
True! I never learned to speak French well, I'm ashamed to admit, I grew up in the 60s/70s in the San Francisco Bay area and anything "classical" was, way out, man!
I regret it so much, at the time, I just wanted to be a hippie like my older sister, and all she did was swan around, skinny, in indian saris and flinging her long, straight blonde hair (when she wasn't being a boring waitress in a dept. store lunch room after school). I was dark haired and dark eyed with white, white skin, NOT the fashion until late 80s grunge, which suddenly made me beautiful, for awhile....
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