tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post7399884289057841887..comments2023-05-30T08:59:47.912-04:00Comments on Hello Ello old blog: My Town MondayEllo - Ellen Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311917335471167591noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-72929680880030203622008-03-27T13:03:00.000-04:002008-03-27T13:03:00.000-04:00Pretty picture. My town still has lots of Indian n...Pretty picture. My town still has lots of Indian named streets and neighborhoods - I guess that's supposed to compensated the natives for the land the white settlers stole. Jeesh!<BR/><BR/>*eye rolling*<BR/><BR/>Great post, but this NYer prefers the Brooklyn My Town's. <BR/><BR/>PS: I stopped reading "Commoner" about halfway through. More on why later.Josephine Damianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17952030380866201241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-71525195950201193742008-03-25T20:48:00.000-04:002008-03-25T20:48:00.000-04:00No, keep up the history lessons! Obviously they a...No, keep up the history lessons! Obviously they are needed. I've been to DC (& Georgetown) and never learned this.Carleen Bricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01433203126527081458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-65047527681392046592008-03-25T19:09:00.000-04:002008-03-25T19:09:00.000-04:00Such stunning pictures. In a way, I'm saddened by...Such stunning pictures. In a way, I'm saddened by the harshness of the history, and yet, as J.L. Krueger said, this is the way of history around the world. I can't help but find it fascinating, and wish that people didn't feel the need to "hush up" parts of their history that they don't like.WordVixenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01713637403798552713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-53520945029704194712008-03-25T16:02:00.000-04:002008-03-25T16:02:00.000-04:00I thank you for the history lesson. The evils of t...I thank you for the history lesson. The evils of the world never cease to amaze me. Wonderful history lesson, Ello! :*) Thanks for posting this...Tyhitia Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14070000168178880911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-27839821768162393402008-03-25T15:34:00.000-04:002008-03-25T15:34:00.000-04:00Great post Ell,Enjoyable read as usual. However, ...Great post Ell,<BR/><BR/>Enjoyable read as usual. However, you are looking at history through Twenty-first century eyes. Until relatively recently "displacement" of indigenous populations by invaders was the "natural" order. It wasn't just white folks who did this. Some of the white folks who settled here didn't do it voluntarily either. My Scottish and Irish ancestors were either "transported" to the colonies (as indentured servants after failed rebellions against the English) or "cleared" when the Highlands were cleared to make room for sheep, or in the mid-1800's evicted during the famine in Ireland because they couldn't pay the rents.<BR/><BR/>Most of the time they were given lands furthest from the English settlers and closest to the Indians...to act as a buffer between the tribes and the "civilized" English settlers.<BR/><BR/>Still, gotta love the colonial "feel" to the architecture.<BR/><BR/>;)J. L. Kruegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03335606939334631954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-43197562357863034292008-03-25T14:13:00.000-04:002008-03-25T14:13:00.000-04:00Posts like this is what I envisioned My Town Monda...Posts like this is what I envisioned My Town Monday to be. Great stuff.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for helping to make it a success each week.Travis Erwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09420879160702098979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-17218749928582676742008-03-25T13:49:00.000-04:002008-03-25T13:49:00.000-04:00What a really great post. This reminds me a lot of...What a really great post. This reminds me a lot of how I felt when I read "A People's History of the United States", which I think everyone should read.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00665632105920753931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-8760023568889751042008-03-25T13:05:00.000-04:002008-03-25T13:05:00.000-04:00Unfortunately history tends to be written by those...Unfortunately history tends to be written by those who win out in conquest, so history is never truly open & honest. As far as I'm concerned, if I didn't witness it personally, I don't KNOW how or even if it happened.<BR/>Still & all, a wonderful & insightful post here. Very nice photos, too!<BR/>Sorry for my recent absence, but I've been having back problems.Lana Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06975996208260144558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-75383377000179569392008-03-25T12:21:00.000-04:002008-03-25T12:21:00.000-04:00Very interesting, Ello. Thanks for sharing this.Very interesting, Ello. Thanks for sharing this.Vesperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12417602625059442986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-20974517080848270162008-03-25T12:10:00.000-04:002008-03-25T12:10:00.000-04:00Kudos Ello for this post, just as it is. I like yo...Kudos Ello for this post, just as it is. I like your approach to history.<BR/><BR/>(And these pictures do have an European feel to them.)SzélsőFahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11600289147447182465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-85306401933222783432008-03-25T08:27:00.000-04:002008-03-25T08:27:00.000-04:00I agree with you whole-heartedly. History ought to...I agree with you whole-heartedly. History ought to be an open book. We shouldn't close off the past as though by doing so we can forget all the pain, meannness and misunderstandings and 'move on;' we should study it and try to understand.<BR/><BR/>My mother lived in Washington DC during the war. When she first tried to find a boarding house, she called one and was arranging to visit it, when the man she was talking to suddenly asked "Are you colored, ma'am?" She said she wasn't, and the man told her he was. Hurried apologies and they both hung up. We kids could never figure out why she hadn't at least gone to see it or why the whole issue of race came up, and my mother always smiled and said that was progress.Mary Witzlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458299046574564155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-13641896267784234772008-03-25T03:53:00.000-04:002008-03-25T03:53:00.000-04:00Fascinating. I've never been out that way but woul...Fascinating. I've never been out that way but would love to visit someday.Kappa no Hehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00909580462578058631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-13147003259592277672008-03-25T01:11:00.000-04:002008-03-25T01:11:00.000-04:00This was a fantastic read. Thanks for pulling this...This was a fantastic read. Thanks for pulling this together.<BR/>I love Georgetown, but I didn't know anything about its history.<BR/><BR/>It is beautiful though, and those photos are making me even more homesick....Chris Eldinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794946908789120139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-34363779537103547702008-03-24T20:39:00.000-04:002008-03-24T20:39:00.000-04:00A place on my 'to see' list. Interesting post!A place on my 'to see' list. Interesting post!Lyzzydeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16696932806108871836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-14751239660064633222008-03-24T19:00:00.000-04:002008-03-24T19:00:00.000-04:00Wonderful post. I still remember visiting DC in 1...Wonderful post. I still remember visiting DC in 1962 and taking a tour of the Kennedy White House. All you had to do was stand in line for tickets. No barriers or armed guards or anything.The Anti-Wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027321787352577548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-88922606883981381282008-03-24T18:43:00.000-04:002008-03-24T18:43:00.000-04:00when i was a kid we lived on the military bas and ...when i was a kid we lived on the military bas and could see the potomac, which ran beside it, and the white house from our back yard.<BR/><BR/>the national art gallery was it for me though. i had never been out of west texas and then this! it was magnificent.Pattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05716215892504806470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-65885161991165227332008-03-24T17:08:00.000-04:002008-03-24T17:08:00.000-04:00Very interesting. Silting up is often a first sig...Very interesting. Silting up is often a first sign of economic collapse. That's part of what happened to the Mayans and the Angkor people of Southeast Asia. Rivers silted up as a result of poor land managament, which also illustrated a breakdown in the farming system.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-19886435930034660922008-03-24T16:36:00.000-04:002008-03-24T16:36:00.000-04:00Very interesting. Although very, very sad.Very interesting. Although very, very sad.Barriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04678698296265168217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-71621670215669215102008-03-24T16:03:00.000-04:002008-03-24T16:03:00.000-04:00I am realy enjoy the My Town Monday series so much...I am realy enjoy the My Town Monday series so much. <BR/><BR/>Geography was never this interesting in school!<BR/><BR/>TerrieTerrie Farley Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980849018232866773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-30451966229172641872008-03-24T14:06:00.000-04:002008-03-24T14:06:00.000-04:00Thanks for shedding more light on this history.Thanks for shedding more light on this history.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084311190804567808.post-25623170667638065362008-03-24T13:37:00.000-04:002008-03-24T13:37:00.000-04:00Don't mean to be flippant, but it seems Washington...Don't mean to be flippant, but it seems Washington has more than its share of dirty little secrets. *sigh* Nevertheless, Georgetown is beautiful.Larramiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14788910637361812265noreply@blogger.com