Not the Homer most publik skreweled Americans will be thinking of sadly.
DOH!
Do Americans even read Homer anymore?
The US Government and the IRS controls all churches via their 501 (c) status
DJT’s first four years were like the Trojan war. Now he’s 5 years in to a 10 year odyssey.
George III had been much admired by colonials. They had erected an equestrian statue to him in New York’s Battery in 1770, but in what was probably our first statue take-down, it was toppled after the Declaration was read to Continental troops on July 9, 1776.
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From today’s Loyalist Trails (a weekly EMail)
Ben Franklin’s World: The Horse’s Tail: Revolution & Memory in Early New York City
In honor of the Fourth of July, this episode explores the history of revolutionary New York City and how New Yorkers came to their decisions to both install and tear down a statue to their king, King George III, and what happened to this statue after it came down. It’s a story that will reveal the power of visual and material objects and how they help us remember the American Revolution.
Our guests for this episode are Wendy Bellion, a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware and the author of the book, Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment; Leslie Harris, a Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University and author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626 to 1860; and Arthur Burns, a Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London and the Academic Director of the Georgian Papers Programme. Listen in...
https://benfranklinsworld.com/episode-306-the-horses-tail-revolution-memory-in-early-new-york-city/
Loyalist Trails: UELAC Newsletter 2021-27 July 4, 2021
(UELAC = United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada)