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Copley’s Portrait Of Paul Revere
This is Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley from 1768. Paul Revere lived 1734-1818. Here is how this painting is described in the book American Art and Architecture by Michael J. Lewis—...
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Joe Kennedy Forgets Me—Paul Revere Still Dead
A brief break from my Summer Solstice blogging break— I took the tour of the Massachusetts State House this afternoon. As I left the building I walked past former Congressman Joe Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy...
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Picture Of The Grave Of Paul Revere
Here is a picture I took last week of the grave of Paul Revere. You can find this grave in the Granary Burying Ground which is part of Boston’s Freedom Trail. Here is information on Revere’s life. He...
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Keep Your Core Beliefs To A Minimum
The passage I excerpt below is from Paul Revere And The World He Lived In by Esther Forbes. The book was published in 1942 and won a Pulitzer prize. I can’t recommend it enough. It makes you feel as...
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Photo Of Big Artichoke & Paul Revere Book
Above is a photo I took last night of a very large artichoke and, also, my copy of Paul Revere And The World He Lived In by Esther Forbes. I’m not fully sure the picture captures the size of the...
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How Paul Revere Saw Life At 50
The following about how Paul Revere saw life at age 50 is from Paul Revere And The World He Lived In by Esther Forbes— “Very few people ever live their middle years in the same world they grow up in...
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It Is Excellent That There Are Many Different Ways We Can Conduct Our...
In my reading of the Pulitzer Prize winning Paul Revere and the World He Lived in, I made note of the fact that Revere had letter-writing relationships with two cousins in Europe he would never meet....
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25 Things About This Blogger—With Paul Revere Painting
I’ve been tagged for one of these 25 things about me lists on Facebook. Vanity compels me to comply. I’ve not yet posted this on Facebook. It’s just that I need a blog post for today. I like Facebook....
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What Google Searches Miss
I was looking up something on Google and typed the letter A. I saw that the word Amazon came up. Because my mind is weak, I then typed in each letter of the alphabet to see what word came up with each...
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Colonials Get Machine Gun—Think Of The Extra Killing We Could’ve Had Over The...
Here’s a picture I found this evening. Here we see this Revolutionary Era soldier bringing his colleagues a big machine gun. I imagine that is Paul Revere holding the lantern. Folks do have the right...
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John Adams, Barack Obama & American Liberty—The Tea Party Knows Nothing Of...
Many on the right on are criticizing Barack Obama’s support of the mosque near the former World Trade Center location in New York City. Some of this criticism has come from backers of the so-called...
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Events Of American Revolution Do Not Offer Clear Answers For Today’s...
With the Fourth of July just over a month away, it’s time we take back our history from the right-wing Tea Party extremists who have been allowed to commandeer some portion of our past. The so-called...
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Learn About Paul Revere And His Ride For Yourself—You Are Crazy To Let Others...
Due to recent comments by Sarah Palin, Paul Revere’s Ride is in the news. When important events in American history find their way back into the news, that is a good time to take your own initiative...
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