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Friday, September 26, 2014

Battle of the Hook, 2008 Special Video

Sometimes digging around areas you find little gold nuggets. Well while we were digging around the county's special interest video archives, we found this little nugget and could not help but put it up for everyone to see. Being big fans of the American Revolution and the great job that many within the county did putting both Battle of the Hook reenactments together and making these events happen, we had no choice but to share this. This video is from the first event that occurred in 2008. We have not seen anything from the 2013 event. Which also reminds us, there is a brochure out circulating in the state of Virginia for Gloucester County tourism that lists Battle of the Hook as an event for 2014 and will be in October. It's a very old brochure and there will not be a 2014 Battle of the Hook event for 2014.

These events were very costly and very difficult to produce. It take about 5 years to get groups together for this kind of event. It takes at least one year just for the planning and staging. Would we love to see another one? Of course. Can it be done yearly? No way. Will there ever be another one? We are not counting on it, but would love to see it anyway. We have a very large selection of photos from both events posted all over the net and a decent number of videos too. We still have a lot we have not yet shared. One day we may get to them.

American Revolution a (Photo credit: Battleofthehook)

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Popular Rubbish - Harper's Magazine Why Vote?

Why Vote? When Your Vote Counts for Nothing by Kevin Baker by catatoniatoday

Talk about a tough article to read. Has this peron ever picked up a history book? Or are we just seeing more history being revised? As we read through the first article, Why Vote?, we saw so many errors in the first two pages we had to walk away from reading the rest. We have to explain what we mean here. When you are seriously studying and researching history, history is not free from religion. In fact, it is the basis and basics of history for the past 10 thousand years.

When you try to remove the religious aspects of history, you end up with a very demonized view of events that can not logically be explained unless you are trying to show a demonized view of history and trying to demonize the past. That is what we saw as the flaws in the above piece. It is not our objective to shove any form of religious beliefs down anyone's throats. Man or Woman for that matter have an individual relationship with one's God or higher power. Your religious views or lack thereof are between you and your higher power.

We are just pointing out what we see as common flaws that have penetrated the world over the past 100 plus years and gets more insidious with each new decade. It has demonized the past in ways that have no logic left. Instead the only conclusion one can have is that the world is evil and always has been so therefore must always be. A study of the issues of slavery is a prime example. We will be showing over the coming months that slavery was a religious moral. It still is a religious moral in many parts of the world. Failure to understand this is where so many people are lost as to what is really going on.

The debates over the religious moral of slavery are centuries old. Was the Civil War in the US over slavery? You may be surprised that it was more of an issue of religious interpretations of Christianity on the morality of slavery than of slavery itself. We have been compiling those documents for some time now and have already posted on this site one of the first digital publications of this issue.

The issue is highly controversial and we are aware of that. Again, it is not our intention to argue for or against the issues, just to show the true history of the events of the past, because they are no longer being discussed. This is what happens when you try to remove religion from the world. The world no longer makes any sense. Stay tuned, this will get very interesting.

The battle of Gettysburg, Pa. July 3d. 1863, depicting the Battle of Gettysburg, fought July 1—3, 1863. The battle was part of the American Civil War and was won by the North. Hand-colored lithograph by Currier and Ives. Español: Batalla de Gettysburg Magyar: A gettysburgi csata (Photo credit: Wikipedia)