Mental illnesses have been around for a long time. Several cases have been stumbled upon in trying to understand life in the 1700s for Imans/Eymans, their friends and associates. A Mary Doer and a Robert Traill wound up needing help and received it from asylums of the day. Mary had suffered the loss of her…
Lunatics in the 1770s: Mary Doer Mental illnesses have been around for a long time. Several cases have been stumbled upon in trying to understand life in the 1700s for Imans/Eymans, their friends and associates. A Mary Doer and a Robert Traill wound up needing help and received it from asylums of the day. Mary…
In Maryland the state Assembly had long called for local county taxes for supporting the deserving poor. Annual pensions were long provided for elderly and infirm who could not otherwise meet their needs. Those particularly old or disabled were often provided home placements in the community, with caretakers receiving pay from county coffers. Other poor…
Trump calls Mexicans killers, rapists, and criminals. He assures us that “the Mexicans” love him, but says Mexico is sending people with lots of problems, bringing drugs and crime. Trump isn’t simply making an argument for immigration reforms to protect jobs or preserve culture. Lodged in his hotel room looking over the streets of Philadelphia…
From a small village along the Rhine came a young Drumpf who found gold in the pockets of miners in the Klondike, sold horse meat to prospectors and ran the Yugest whorehouses in Yukon Territory. Expelled from Germany for evasion of taxes and military service, proclaiming themselves Swedish, the (now) Trumps swindled the government in…
A Short list of the cast of characters of George Packer’s “Unwinding” (2013) Dean Price, a farmer with land to develop who put up a truck stop and got convinced that in the age of peak oil that there would be a market for biofuels though with the massive turbulence in energy prices for oil,…
The Letterbooks of Alexander Hamilton, Piscataway Factor, Parts 1 (1774) (1774-1775). Maryland History Magazine, LXI [June 1966][1] , and Part II, 1967, Volume LXII Alexander Hamilton was a Scottish merchant at Piscataway, a small Potomac port in Prince George less than a mile from Warburton Manor, where Ralph Forster’s future wife was born and raised.…
In the early 1930s, the work world was new for most. People for the most part had been born down on the farm, and for the first time, masses were being employed for the first time in cities. That meant they had to deal with “organizations” and relationships with people they hadn’t grown up with.…
No one is quite sure where the name “Whiteside” came from though there’s been a good bit of speculation. Our Whitesides seem to trace back to Armagh, an ancient capital of Ireland which by 1625 was being settled by Scots who had been sent to the place by the King of England in order to…
William Henry Spafford The Boys of Battery A Steve Iman [Figure 1: Infantry at Attention] Published by Steve Iman’s Foolerie 24242 Porto Fino, Dana Point, CA 92629 www.imanfamily.net Imprint The facts of this account are drawn largely from diaries and letters of the Boys of Battery A. Together they provide a narrative of the lived…