For the Song Hall of Fame (a list of my favourite songs)...  "Monster / Suicide / America" by Steppenwolf

A political song from 1969...  America, where are you now?

It's a good little history lesson that brings you up to the Vietnam War...  This video presents an updated version, from the past couple years.

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For my Song Hall of Fame...  "Isle of Sadness" by Donovan ( Read more... )

Another for my Song Hall of Fame... "Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)" by the Beach Boys ( Read more... )

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10 years ago this month, here's what was going on:

( Linda and Jenny visit me again in Massachusetts )

I read an interesting story in the newspaper, and it concerned a place near where I used to live on the North Shore in Massachusetts...  so being a very very lazy blogger, I decided to look for the story on the internet... Google News...  so I could cut and paste... but this story isn't even on the internet.  But I found something very similar, ( Read more... )

Chief Wild Eagle: [when asked how the Hekawi got their name] Many moons ago tribe move west because Pilgrims ruin neighborhood. Tribe travel west, over country and mountains and wild streams, then come big day... tribe fall over cliff, that when Hekawi get name. Medicine man say to my ancestor, "I think we lost. Where the heck are we?"

It's nearly Thanksgiving...  Time to brag about my Mayflower ancestors.

From the Mayflower Passenger List, here are my Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandparents Isaac and Mary Allerton, along with my Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandmother little Mary Allerton.


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Sorry for the length of this. I can't do an LJ cut right now.

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
I missed a bit, or a couple bits actually, shaving in the car yesterday morning on the way to work. I wonder if anyone noticed.

2. How much cash do you have on you?
£38 and falling in £2.50 ( Read more... )

So, it turns out I'm related to at least four Mayflower passengers...  Richard Warren, Isaac Allerton, Mary Allerton and daughter Mary Allerton.

My lineage to Richard Warren:
Me - born in Oregon 1965
Dad
Dorothy Wood
Homer Wood
Adelaide Eliza Sperry  1856 in Linn Co., OR 
Cynthia Clark  1811 in VT 
Carpus Clark   1768 in CT 
Esther Gibbs
Sarah ( Read more... )