I mentioned in my Gettysburg post yesterday that I find the appeals to “providence” when referring to events in the war unconvincing. Today I came across a quote that communicates why it is that I feel this way: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is…
Tag: History
Town Meeting mix-up
OK, I’m technically on vacation – but I’ve been watching the town meeting debacles unfurl from afar and I’m taking some time to comment before I move on to my second week of vacation (suitably enough, to a place where a “new birth of freedom” was proclaimed). Anyway, what’s been bugging me over all the…
Let someone else explain it…
The gentleman in this video did a wonderful job explaining why going to Williamsburg is such a joy for me. Frankly, I’m coming to see that the mass of people who are unable to be moved by either history or narrative is not a matter of bad education – it’s an illness of the soul. …
Why I keep coming back…
My wife and I were discussing why so many of our friends and neighbors don’t understand why it is that we keep coming down to Williamsburg time and again. People tend to star at us in unbelief when we tell them that we’ve never been to Busch Gardens and then ask, “What do you do…
