tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post3940215341837608843..comments2024-03-18T19:36:10.480-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Boomer PharisaismAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-61061258173266254072016-09-21T21:23:05.200-04:002016-09-21T21:23:05.200-04:00I keep going back every quarter or so, but where I...I keep going back every quarter or so, but where I would read everything when it was under Neihaus' editorship, it just doesn't hold my attention now. Some of the R.R. Reno is a bit too much "Us vs Them" with "them" playing the role of the baddie for my taste.Douglas2https://www.blogger.com/profile/11290012200563917585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-27353401198406586162016-09-19T10:02:12.786-04:002016-09-19T10:02:12.786-04:00I'm reading his "Journey Through Texas&qu...I'm reading his "Journey Through Texas" on Google now. It's a pleasure to encounter the travel journal of an author whose travels weren't wasted on him.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-25058354275220738412016-09-18T23:22:49.040-04:002016-09-18T23:22:49.040-04:00From Vol 1:
"I have faith that there is a tig...From Vol 1:<br />"I have faith that there is a tight roof above the much-cracked ceiling...<br />I don't like these cracked and variegated walls; and though the roof may be tight, I don't like this threatening aspect of the ceiling. It should be kept for boarders of Damoclesian ambition: I am humble."jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-88041678585322975092016-09-18T19:01:05.133-04:002016-09-18T19:01:05.133-04:00"But anyway, digging up stuff is what the pre..."But anyway, digging up stuff is what the press does, so again: true enough." Theoretically. I've read that sometimes they do, but it's always about Republicans.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-65031041552483504292016-09-18T16:29:46.376-04:002016-09-18T16:29:46.376-04:00And finally, an interesting biography of Frederick...<i>And finally, an interesting biography of Frederick Law Olmstead which not only provides background on the designing of Central Park, but his earlier career, walking across the antebellum South and six months in England</i><br /><br />Judging by his works- his books and designs of urban parks and college campuses- Olmsted was a remarkable man. He was from Hartford. I wonder if Olmsted ever met Mark Twain, who lived for decades in Hartford, but after Olmsted left it. Like fellow New Englander Richard Henry Dana [Two Years Before the Mast & career as attorney], physical ailments caused Olmsted to leave college early, and like Dana, that detour did not deter Olmsted from a life of accomplishments. <br /><br />Olmsted's books on the antebellum South are worth perusing. One point Olmsted made is that while the South had "free" slave labor, its rural areas were poorer than rural areas in the North. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=frederick+law+olmsted&oq=frederick+#q=frederick+law+olmsted&tbm=bks&tbs=bkt:b" rel="nofollow">Google Books search:Frederick Law Olmsted</a> provides access to e-books of his work. I didn't expect Google Books to have more free e-books of Olmsted's works than Project Gutenberg, but it does. To narrow in on Olmsted's books on the antebellum South, here are titles of those books.<br /><br />Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom. Vol 1<br />Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom. Vol 2<br />A Journey Through Texas; Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier. With a Statistical Appendix<br />A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4<br />A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their EconomyRichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.com