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Posted on 11/29/2005 7:51:14 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
Winter must come awfully early to that little spit of sand called Provincetown.
The town isn't exactly Mayberry to begin with, if you know what I mean. But as the cold winds blow relentlessly down Commercial Street and the gray waves slap constantly against the shore, the isolation must lead to a total divorce from reality. Think Jack Nicholson in ''The Shining."
How else to explain the bizarre behavior of a majority of the town's selectmen at a meeting earlier this month?
To wit, Selectwoman Sarah Peake spun her chair around near the end of the Nov. 14 meeting, gazed up at an oversized oil painting depicting the Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact when they first landed in Provincetown, and declared that she wanted it removed.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Not surprising coming from Boston.
Such self-hatred, and hatred of all things Christian (they are puritans, after all), is amazing.
I tend to dismiss those who say the venom and fervor of the ACLU and its clones at destroying America's Christian hertitage is because thos people's nature hates the Holy Spirit, but these stories make me wonder.
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From the article:
"Mind you, it's not that she didn't like the look or the colors or the style. It's not that she thought it was too big or too small for the Judge Welsh Hearing Room. It's not that it clashed with anything around it.
No, what Peake didn't like was that the painting didn't include any women. That and the fact that the painting's only Indian -- Native American, I'd better call him -- wasn't holding a ballot like everyone else."
It's P-town. Half the select"men" are probably transgender mutants.
P-town is an eye opener, don't bring your sons there....
Do people like Ms. Peake ever consider the fact that they are acting like asshats?
Too funny.
Lemme guess, she's voted for the Swimmer for the last 4 decades.
The Mayflower Compact is a constitutional milestone on the road to American democracy and self-government. But to liberals, the Pilgrims only represent the evil "Patriarchy". It makes me sick the way they want to rewrite history and tear down our heritage!
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It's not Boston.
" Winter must come awfully early to that little spit of sand called Provincetown."
OK. So maybe the solution would be to commission a local artist to do a Mayflower Compact painting that "looks like" America. Not only would Indians and women be shown voting, but ideally there would be blacks and Asians and Latinos and maybe gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered folks as well. (Three of the four should be pretty easy to depict.) Of course, it wouldn't be historical anymore, but since history can make some people "feel bad," then maybe it's best forgotten anyway.
On to the brave new world!
I just should have said Mass. To people living in the South, it's all the same.:)
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I live in MA.
Regional stereotypes. Don't we all love them?
Surprising that liberal politics would come out in geneological list - the topic doesn't seem very political to me.
Aye. Therein lies the rub.
Revisionist history.
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