#sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #roadtrip #booksky Final chapter: "By exercising historical discipline & not stopping anywhere else, we (the author took her son along 4 this trip) made it all the way 2 Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, bfore nightfall. "#recommendedreading

4th #sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #UShistory #booksky #RosaParks Final chapter: "In 1955, the same year Rosa Parks made her stand in Montgomery, Alabama, Walt Disney opened a theme park in Anaheim, California."

Se han cumplido 59 años sin Woody Guthrie.

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Still another #sentenceoftheday from #ThisLandIsYourLand Ch. 11: "I wanted to spend the night in a nuclear missile silo." #roadtrip #BeverlyGage #booksky

Still another #sentenceoftheday #booksky #BeverlyGage #UShistory #roadtrip #ThisLandIsYourLand, Chapter 11: "Manzanar sits just on the other side of Death Valley, near the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, on a flat dusty strip pressed up against snowcapped grandeur."

Another #Sentenceoftheday #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage #UShistory #recommendedreading Chapter 11: "Even today, #Manzanar feels remote."

#sentenceoftheday #amreading #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #solotravel #roadtrip #USHistory #BeverlyGage #readmorewomen "I wandered down the hill and into the gathering, armed only with my notebook, camera, and voice recorder."

Gotta hand it to Beverly Gage: traveling solo, she flies to Atlanta on Confederate Memorial Day, rents a car, and drives to Stone Mountain to attend a rally of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. #amreading #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage #USHistory #nonfiction #CivilWarhistory

Still #reading #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage #booksky #roadtrip Ch. 7 is abt visiting #Deadwood: "Visit today & u can stay at the Historic Bullock Hotel, drink at the Wild Bill Bar, gamble at the Utter Place, go on a brothel tour, & watch live outdoor gunfights staged w/ actors & pistol blanks."

#BeverlyGage #SentenceoftheDay #roadtrip #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #solotravel Chapter 5: "Traveling alone as a middle-aged woman is an uneven experience: day after day of irrelevance & anonymity punctuated by the occasional moment of threat or contempt."

Chapter 4 of #ThisLandIsYourLand : Kudos to Beverly Gage for writing about Greg Abbott and Texas. I've only been to Texas once, for the AWP conference in Austin, over a decade ago. And I skipped the one in San Antonio because of covid (The only time I've caught covid was at an AWP lol). #booksky

Yet another #UShistory #slavery #sentenceoftheday #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage "In 1829, Mexico abolished slavery," something the Founders "had barely considered."

Ch. 3 of #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #sentenceoftheday #UShistory #expulsion "During the 1820s & 1830s, the federal govt expelled not only the Five Civilized Tribes, but also Delawares and Kickapoos, Potawatomis & Miamis, Peorias & Meskwakis & Ottawas -- some 80,000 people, all told."

#sentenceoftheday #amreading #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #UShistory "In the spring of 1838, Andrew Jackson's handpicked successor Martin van Buren began sending US troops to round up all Cherokee . . . thrusting them into hastily constructed concentration camps to await deportation west."

Still reading #ThisLandIsYourLand by #BeverlyGage. I'm on Trip # 2: Mount Vernon & Colonial Williamsburg. Jamestown was "the first permanent English settlement in North America" (founded decades after the Spanish reached the Philippines) and the place where the 1st captive Africans arrived, in 1619.

Still reading #ThisLandIsYourLand: The success of the American Revolution depended on an alliance of: 1) white men; 2) black men, mostly slaves; 3) the Oneida Nation, 1 of the few indigenous communities who chose to side with the rebels. It's all abt ALLIANCES, people. U can't walk that road alone.

#sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #USNationalParks #SaveOurParks "Despite recent budget cuts & political attacks, there's no traveling the country's historic sites without encountering the Park Service's fleet of good-hearted, army-green-clad, campaign-hat-wearing rangers."

#booksky #sentenceoftheday #amreading #UShistory #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #declarationofindependence The political theorist Daniel Allen has noted, "no more important sentence has ever been written" on the subject of equality than the Declaration's assertion that "all men are created equal."

#quoteoftheday #sentenceoftheday #amreading #ushistory #roadtrip #booksky #womenhistorians #wisdom #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand "Americans can be patriots and critics, citizens and dissenters, all at once."

#booksky #sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #ushistory #womenhistorians "As a citizen, I love my country, & I hate when its patriotic symbols --the flag, the national anthem, the founding --are co-opted by narrow-minded people who claim that they & they alone are the true Americans."