Oh, if I'm going to screw up, I should do it in style, Tim! Thank you, and I will correct it immediately. Do I get points for being in the ballpark AND for being very young at the time? 😂
Coming from, on my father's side, an Irish family, I have always wondered about the dangers of too much remembering. I don't think you should remember unless you're also prepared to forgive and move on. But there's such a huge, huge debate to be had about that -- I once wrote a play on that very subject.
Second point -- the grifting story is so, so similar to the British government's ongoing HS2 railway-building saga. But the Ames brothers had the advantage of laying track over miles and miles of 'nothing' (except injuns). You can't pull that same trick in the Chiltern hills, which are full of retired lawyers!
I regret not being able to make it to Savannah for the talks on Whitfield, who I’ve been interested in since I came across mention of him at the Decatur Public Library when my daughter was taking Georgia History in the 8th grade. And now you mention the Ames! I’d read about them in relation to the Harvard botanist who searched out varieties of orchids was a descendants and learned that George Ames Plimpton was another. Who knows if I can find that book with its suitably green dust jacket in the bookshelves upstairs. But Google tossed up this obituary along the way, while I saw headlines about the Ames family being great that I skipped. Here is the obituary for George’s mother Pauline: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/17/obituaries/pauline-a-plimpton-93-author-of-works-on-famed-relatives.html
Thanks, Anne! What fun that George Plimpton (whom I mostly remember. for being Posh in that very American prep school way) was a great-great-grandson of the original Oakes Ames! Trying to find out more about the Ameses, I had done a quick search in JSTOR, the scholarly database, and kept turning up the younger Oakes and his orchids. 😂 Sorry you couldn't make it to Savannah, but another Nonnie suggested I do online lectures, so stay tuned if you're interested.
The Apollo moon landing was 1969, not '68.
Oh, if I'm going to screw up, I should do it in style, Tim! Thank you, and I will correct it immediately. Do I get points for being in the ballpark AND for being very young at the time? 😂
Ah, it’s just a typo. The 8 and 9 are right next to each other. So, sure, take the points, but were you even ex utero then? You don’t look that old.
Coming from, on my father's side, an Irish family, I have always wondered about the dangers of too much remembering. I don't think you should remember unless you're also prepared to forgive and move on. But there's such a huge, huge debate to be had about that -- I once wrote a play on that very subject.
Second point -- the grifting story is so, so similar to the British government's ongoing HS2 railway-building saga. But the Ames brothers had the advantage of laying track over miles and miles of 'nothing' (except injuns). You can't pull that same trick in the Chiltern hills, which are full of retired lawyers!
Yes! That's it! A TYPO, not a brain fart, or shocking ignorance! I wasn't born for another decade at least... Hey, make it two decades! Thanks, Tim! 🤪
I regret not being able to make it to Savannah for the talks on Whitfield, who I’ve been interested in since I came across mention of him at the Decatur Public Library when my daughter was taking Georgia History in the 8th grade. And now you mention the Ames! I’d read about them in relation to the Harvard botanist who searched out varieties of orchids was a descendants and learned that George Ames Plimpton was another. Who knows if I can find that book with its suitably green dust jacket in the bookshelves upstairs. But Google tossed up this obituary along the way, while I saw headlines about the Ames family being great that I skipped. Here is the obituary for George’s mother Pauline: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/17/obituaries/pauline-a-plimpton-93-author-of-works-on-famed-relatives.html
Thanks, Anne! What fun that George Plimpton (whom I mostly remember. for being Posh in that very American prep school way) was a great-great-grandson of the original Oakes Ames! Trying to find out more about the Ameses, I had done a quick search in JSTOR, the scholarly database, and kept turning up the younger Oakes and his orchids. 😂 Sorry you couldn't make it to Savannah, but another Nonnie suggested I do online lectures, so stay tuned if you're interested.