"The indians called it maize - but we corrected them. With our fire-sticks."
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Less magical once the illusion is explained…
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Although the book seems interesting, I couldn’t stomach reading it. 
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I was briefly taught radical and socialist history by Hilda Kean but I couldn’t complete the course as I started getting the first signs of CFS.
Her blog is here
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As with so many other examples of women in history, the role of the medieval widow has been overlooked. Even scholars of the Middle Ages have often assumed that unless a building or monument is distinctively “feminine,” it would have been commissioned by a man. But when we start to dig into these widows’ lives, it’s striking how much our public monuments and buildings owe to the patronage and creativity of medieval widows.
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Almost on this date, in 1852:
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Hudson? Did they forget about Hudson? Maybe they were too mainstream in their day.
As a kid, I worked part-time for an old surveyor (in his 80s at the time) and I got to ride in his ancient Hudson Hornet.
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https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/Dance-marathons-were-a-seedy-exploitative-Bay-16070209.php
Story of the usual sorts of moral scolds who didn’t like the idea of people entertaining themselves in unapproved ways and we-must-protect-people-from-themselves patern/matern alism, but at least someone had a practical sense of humor about it:
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Well, if bear baiting and cockfighting are people entertaining themselves. I see the article mentions the good but grim movie about the craze, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? .
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