But at least we can count on them preserving the history of their messiah:
Posted on 12/11/2012 11:38:00 AM PST by Hoodat
All of Ronald Reagan's formative years, from birth until he landed his first job across the Mississippi 21 years later, were lived in rural northwestern Illinois except for about ten months in Chicago.
In all but one case, his rural boyhood homes have been preserved. His birthplace in Tampico looks as it did when he was born and is open to the public. So is his teen years home in Dixon. The house the Reagans lived in for two years in Galesburg has been lovingly restored by its private owner. Their house in Monmouth is the only home that is closed.
Reagan's father, Jack, a shoe salesmen by trade, moved the family from Tampico at the beginning of 1915 after his boss in Tampico sold his dry goods store. He got a job at the big Fair Store on Chicago's south side, thinking his career would take off there. They rented a cold-water flat in a four-story apartment building at 832 East 57th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Young "Dutch" Reagan (that was his nickname from birth until he moved to Hollywood in 1937) had his first memories in that flat. In a letter years later, he writes about the thrill of seeing horses pulling the fire wagon down the street at a gallop. February 6 that year marked his fourth birthday. While living in Chicago he also nearly died from a serious case of pneumonia.
The building the Reagans lived in is about to be demolished. The land now belongs to the University of Chicago's Medical Center and the plan is to replace it with a grassy strip bordering what will be a new parking lot. . .
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It’s becoming pretty clear that the Liberals are emboldened and prepared to rewrite a majority of American history they deem as unpleasant. They’re removing cultural elements such as literature and poetry from our public schools, they’re bulldozing landmarks attributed to the greatest men in American history, and they’re redistributing the greatness of the majority to pander to the lawless minority.
America is truly lost, FRiends.
The left has been rewriting history for decades at least. The former students are now the teachers in academia.
Actually IMO a Leftist snit fit, tantrum. Pulling the legs off of the sister’s doll sort of thing.
Liberals being as mean as they truly are to tear down something, anything of significance to those that don’t go along with their perspectives.
Liberals are incomplete life-forms.
But at least we can count on them preserving the history of their messiah:
Historic Home or Grassy Strip?
Neither, it is Private Property and the private owner can do with it what ever it wishes.
If Obama could give up his first hut, I think Reagan could give up a four story building in which he lived in one apartment.
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