05/12/13 - NNHS Newsletter -

Sunday, May 12, 1963 - Basketball player and politician (Mayor of Piraeus) Panagiotis Fasoulas (Παναγιώτης Φασούλας) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Sunday, May 12, 1963 - Director, screenwriter, actor, and producer Gavin Hood was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Sunday, May 12, 1963 - Race car driver Stefano Modena was born in Modena, Italy.

Sunday, May 12, 1963 - Singer Charles Pettigrew (Charles and Eddie) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died from cancer on 06 Apr 2001 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 37.

Sunday, May 12, 1963 - Actor Jerry Trimble was born Jerry Foster Trimble, Jr. in Newport, Kentucky.

Sunday, May 12, 1963 - Actress Vanessa A. Williams was born in New York City, New York.

Sunday, May 12, 1963 - Football manager Richard Girulatis (b. 21 Aug 1878 in Germany) died in Germany, having lived for some years in the United States.

Sunday, May 12, 1963 - Sprinter Robert Kerr (b. 09 June 1882 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, present-day Northern Ireland) died in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada at the age of 80.

    WOWZERONI! What fabulous news! Give your son our love and tell him congratulations from all of us!

   As for me, I'm here (sorta); I just don't seem to be getting really, really, most sincerely well.   As a result I cannot think straight, so more often than not, I'm lying in bed - either sleeping or watching old movies while crocheting or cross-stitching. In a few days I'll take pictures of old the goodies I've made recently.....

 

http://www.nnhs65.com/WNH/Why-Go-to-Church.doc

     Thanks, Billy - some of these are classic!

Covert Matters Digest

A New Look at English ‘Intruders’

Mr. Jefferson: Master of Monticello

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By Harry M. Covert

An era has arrived in a major assault on the history of the continental United States. Seems like the progressives’ time is bound and determined to disparage, decry and devoid the colonials.

The latest refers to Jamestown. That’s still in Virginia.

Apparently some recent assessors have discovered that the colonists there did not exhibit any moral tendencies. They were heathens of the first chop.

When food ran short back in 1609, they apparently became cannibals — Caucasian diners that is. To survive. No evidence abounds they partook of the Indians, whom they described as Indians, not in the modern words Native Americans. [The Bureau of Indian Affairs had not been created at that point.]

The Story of Virginia, to which I was taught in my grammar school, never mentioned such unruly conduct. Those settlers, as I learned in my classrooms just a few miles south, always showed us sweet boys and girls how kindly the mostly Christian intruders from England treated the Redmen and women.

Some of the names I recall these days are Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, Powhatan and John Rolfe.

These creative and godly forerunners, as many have been taught through their formative years and on to the hallowed halls of the College of William and Mary, led to the establishment of the USA.

It should be noted here that the esteemed college is the second oldest institution of higher learning in what is now the 50 states. Harvard ranks first and probably leads the way in some historical rewriting.

Starving time in Jamestown occurred during the winter of 1609 to 1610, according to Colonial Williamsburg which is working on the project with the Smithsonian and Preservation Virginia.

A recent wag wondered if the Jamestown tourist center will have to update its cookbook. Now, that’s crass but it’s true.

My education must improve.

A review of Author Jon Meacham’s recent biography, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, attempted to tear down achievements of the William and Mary graduate and founder of the University of Virginia. The headline was “Monster of Monticello.”

Meacham’s fine work doesn’t judge Jefferson by the standards of the present age.

The third president may have been a slave owner but he was a grand president, an outstanding diplomat and a distinctive writer of his own Bible and other memorable documents.

It was great foresight that he introduced the tomato to the US. Imagine no catsup/ketchup, tomato sandwiches on homemade yeast rolls, tomato soup, Thomas Jefferson schools, high and low, and the two dollar bill.

Mr. Jefferson was considered a Deist but knew the Lord’s Prayer.

Some of his contemporaries were religious and believed in “fervent prayer”. Among them is Mount Vernon’s George Washington, known for his financial derring-do. He was a founder, vestryman and regular worshiper at Christ Church, Alexandria, Va.

It will be surprising to discover in these days of rewriting, that Jamestown’s church was really a garage built by the Indians, that Williamsburg is a myth, that basketball was invented by Mr. Naismith in Jamestown and not in Massachusetts, that documents have been found returning West Virginia to Virginia and that Marylander Francis Scott Key wrote his famous song in Indiana.

And that Thanksgiving never happened because the colonists, even those in Plymouth, weren’t thankful for anything and never learned to hunt or fish and were navel gazers.

   Ah, Harry, you've been reading my frustrated mind! Thank you so much!

      Oh, Billy, this is just delightful - thanks so much!