Over at The American Street, I've posted a chillingly stark passage I found in The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore, by John R. Hutchinson (1914) a book about the coercion by force of unwilling men into the armed forces, most particularly by the British Navy in the 18th century.
Can't imagine what it's alluding to...
This post has been sans comments for too long now -- so I thought I'd leave you a message completely unrelated to the American Street thing.
ReplyDeleteBeing not busy and bored -- I went back looking through Wolcott's posts to find out who the "Magnolia Blossoms" were from March. Don't ask, things like this linger in my mind for no apparent reason. I just always like that reference.
Anyway -- it was YOU! I didn't know you back then.
That's all. Ta-ta.
Yeah, Wolcott, uh, didn't hurt the old unique-visitor numbers very much. Like watching a Saturn V rocket taking off -- for a weekend. Quite heady stuff. I mentally composed my first Pulitzer acceptance speech....
ReplyDelete"I mentally composed my first Pulitzer acceptance speech...."
ReplyDeleteI can totally relate. Kind of. I just dream of being a Wolcott Magnolia Blossom -- not even for the traffic either.