.....I just got off Joel's Book of Face. I had no idea how to manipulate that devilish social confusing program. I am certain the confusion arises because we are from different generations....and although the generation during the American Revolution had no name, except perhaps, "Patriots" who wanted nothing more to do with King George's taxing without representation. You all know about the Boston Tea Party. No, we are not talking about those rabble rousers in the modern Republican Party. We all know something about the incident on December 16, 1773, when Boston's Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians and tossed 342 chests of tea from three ships into the Boston Harbor to protest the taxes imposed in the Tea Act. But few people know that there was a sequel to the Tea Party--on March 7, 1774--probably because they grabbed only 16 chests of tea for themselves.
.....and Boston still has the Patriots around smashing heads with Tom Brady leading them. Just a coincident?
.....I'm trying to write a musical which will encompass the history, casualties of America's wars, and the music of the Generations since the Revolution. Did I say I'm trying to write it? I can admit that at my ripe age, it is damn difficult, but that is another challenge I will attempt. The naming of the Generations began with The Lost Generation. They were specifically a group of U.S. writers who came of age during WWI and established their literary reputations during the 1920s. It was Gertrude Stein who named their generation as the Lost one. Hemingway used it in "The Sun Also Rises." There were others who made Paris the center of their literary activities. They included F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos. E.E. Cummings, Archibald Macleish, Hart Crane, and many others...Lost, lost, lost. And by the 1930s, they were gone.
......OK. This is the best I can do today. Need to see an M.D. today. Well, actually almost every day. I'll get back to you and give you a list of all the generations. I'm sure you'll be waiting with baited breath.
Fascinating, dear Baron! And what happened on 7/3/1774? I can only imagine that a riot broke out in protest against the tea which had been stewing for so long that it was over-strong and bitter, and accordingly undrinkable.
ReplyDeleteOf course it was impossible to stop the North American colony from breaking away if it wanted to. Britain is small and a long way away. The difficulties of the logistics of such a war were insuperable for the Brits. We must never forget that history and geography are inextricably linked.
Canada was a different matter. What's not generally known is that most of Canada didn't want out of the Empire, a lot of French settlers having decided that life was easier back in France, and gone back there. A simple matter of demographics. That the British settlers stayed is witness to life's having been harder in Britain than in France. Now THAT'S something the history books DON'T tell you!
In what sense was the generation of writers you mention lost? Are their names forgotten, are their works unobtainable? Were there a lot of alcohol, drugs, and mental health problems involved? Enlightenment, please!
Btw, it's "bated" breath, not "baited." "Bated" is short for "abated." Unless you've found a new way of fishing, of course..
...but yes, certainly I want to hear more about the generations!
I find Facebook impossible too, so I'm not sure that it's a generational thing. I think that I've looked at Facebook and decided it's not worth the effort. Unutterably trivial. Same goes for Twitter. Got better things to do with my life than go on these "anti-social" media.
Much love, Cousin Ruth
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