My History Recollection

Today's Boston Tea Party

I'm not sure what to make of today's Tea Party Activities. In general, it seems to me that a president inherits the effects of the last term during their first year in office.
(Yes you heard me, I think that FDR's 100-day successes are a knockoff effect of what Hoover was trying to do...)


I did see many angry people in Pioneer Courthouse Square today. But on one hand, they looked like fairly well off people complaining about taxes. Different from the people who continually ask me if I want to save the polar bears, seals, forests, start a bearded army of ????, want to be my buddy (presumably for some sort of religious reason), or just flat out want/demand change (monetary kind that is).



On the flip side, personally, I am working on a 10% reduction in pay and not entirely sure if I'll end up with another reduction before this thing is through....so not wanting more taxes myself. Currently I feel anguish about bankers, big business, and so-called Washington politics; but think that enventually bankers need for more money will let money flow to the masses, the people in business that make money will get back to stepping on people to make money, and that this experiment started around 230 years ago won't collapse on itself yet.



I don't know, the Original Boston Tea Party happened on December 16, 1773 (source Wikipedia) and my understanding is it happened to protest a Tax without representation. Should I be protesting a tax without representation? Unsure....I have elected representatives who hopefully represent the masses electing them, and (after completing my taxes tonight) did come to the conclusion that my tax refund is similar to last years, but yet feel the needs of this corner of our nation not met.

Kinda rambling here, interested in thoughts others might have to say....


Hood!

1920

Travels Some More

I was down in Sacramento this weekend for my grandmother's 88th Birthday.

One of my cousins tells me that it seems like I'm always travelling somewhere. (I look at my stick-on states map and a map of the world and I disagree a little....or I must always be going the same places...)

Things I got saw this weekend (besides Family):

Folsom State Prison (see this also)

California Foundry Museum

Vintage Ford

Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star aircraft at the Aerospace Museum in the former McClellan Airbase. My dad recollects this is the plane my grandpa worked on as a mechanic at Mather Field.



After the Beavs Performance this weekend, all I gotta say is GO BRUINS!

A Catholics Past?

Possibly my Oldest Known American Ancestor
(from a Bio sheet provided by another researcher...information yet to be verified)



Daniel Falckner

Daniel and Justus Falckner were brothers, born in Langen-Reinsdorf, Zwichau, Saxony, the sons of the Rev. Daniel Falckner. Daniel was the older, born 25 November 1666. He was educated at Erfurth and ordained in Germany.

Daniel arrived in Philadelphia on 23 June 1694. In 1698 he returned to Germany, but was back in Pennsylvania again in 1700. Upon his return a tract he wrote, probably while in Germany, called "Curiuse Nachricht von Pennsylania in Norden-America" was published in Frankfurt and Leipzig in 1702. He knew William Penn and acted as agent for the Frankfurt Land Co. to survey 25,000 acres previously sold the company by Penn. In this work he supplanted Francis Daniel Pastorius who had come to Pennsylvania in 1683.

Anna Maria Schuckart is presumed to have been Daniel's wife and the mother of his two daughters; one named Molly married Wilhelm Dern.

Daniel Falckner was active in Germantown. However, in 1798 he disappeared from history for a time. His brother, Justus, was ordained on 24 Nov 1703 by the Swedes in Penn's English colony: this being the first Lutheran ordination in America. He served the Dutch Lutherans in New York and had three congregations - Albany, Hakensack and New York (New York and New Jersey had the same governor at that time.) Pastor Falckner traveled about 1500 miles a year. He died in 1723. About this time Daniel Falckner reappeared, living then in New Jersey.

He died, probably in New Jersey, after 1741; but before 1745.

So the question is am I guilty as a Catholic or guilty as a descendant of a proponent of the then Catholic church wrongs turned Catholic....... on the other hand, I never thought how strong and long this German-American genealogy might be.

Been a Long Haul

I Gave In

Some things seen from Roadtrip 2008

Day 1
Portland, OR to Klamath Falls, OR

Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon


Fort Rock, Fort Rock, Oregon

Day 2
Klamath Falls, OR to Carson City, NV


Lakeview, Oregon


Goose Lake, Oregon/California


Honey Lake, California

Day 3
Carson City, NV to Tonopah, NV



Nevada State Capitol, Carson City, Nevada


Walker Lake, Nevada


Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada


Desert Queen Mine, Tonopah, Nevada

Day 4
Tonopah, NV to Furnace Creek Camp, CA


Scotty's Castle, Death Valley, California


Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, California

Day 5
Furnace Creek, CA to Wildrose Camp Death Valley, CA


Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, California


Ruins, Rhyolite, Nevada


Charcoal Kilns, Death Valley, California

Day 6
Wildrose Camp Death Valley, CA to Las Vegas, NV


Golden Canyon, Death Valley, California


Artists Palette, Death Valley, California


Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California

Day 7
Las Vegas, NV to Phoenix, AZ


Hoover Dam, Nevada/Arizona


Joshua Trees, Arizona


Saguaro Cacti, Arizona

Day 8
Phoenix, AZ


Arizona State Capitol, Phoenix, Arizona

Day 9
Phoenix, AZ to Cedarpines Park, CA


General Patton Museum, Chiriaco Summit, California


Windfarm, San Gorgonio Pass, California (the photo doesn't do the 4,000 turbine farm justice)

Day 10
Cedarpines Park, CA to Bishop, CA


Solar Farm, Kramer Junction, California


Mount Whitney, California


Manzanar Internment Camp, Owens Valley, California

Day 11
Bishop, CA to Redding, CA


Mono Lake, California


Lake Tahoe, California


Squaw Valley, California


Donner Camp, (near) Truckee, California


Sulphur Works, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Day 12
Redding, CA to PDX


Mount Shasta, California (when you see the Cascades you know you're on your way home)

Once again, we return to spreading "knowledge" to the world at large......

InNotable Quotable

Somehow, this quote meant something entirely different in high school.

"Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren's en makes 'em ashamed."

In high school, the first part of the quote was used repeatedly (in reference to my vehicle at the time), forgetting there's a second more meaningful part of the line...


Not Quite a Nucular Wessel, Alameda Naval Station, California, July 2004, by LHD