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<blockquote data-quote="Luca Brasi" data-source="post: 1280033" data-attributes="member: 23282"><p>Love Ken Burns' work, and not just because he's a northener. I groaned during one winter storm when the wife wanted to watch Gone With the Wind, but I never realized how much interesting history it contained. Can't imagine what they went through down there that didn't really affect us up here. In fact after the war is when most New England farms were abandoned, as returning soldiers discovered what real farm land was like and packed up and moved elsewhere to avoid steep hills and endless rocks. Today as a result we are mostly forested. It is not uncommon to be deep in the woods and come across an old stone wall that signified that there was once a pasture where you stand. Southern farmers I imagine would have given anything to have seed to plant their land, let alone the luxury to just be able to up and abandon it.</p><p></p><p>FWIW, there is a statue of a Civil War soldier in my town common. Every Christmas someone, I assume even with the blessing of the town since they hang lights on the trees there, puts a Santa hat on the statue. I'm not nearly what you would call a flag waver, but I have enough common consideration to at least respect that others have deep seated beliefs about these things to just sit quietly while they exercise them, as long as they don't push anything in my face. I've always found the hat thing to be disrespectful, and wonder if it would be received just as well if I put a set of bunny ears on the WWII or Vietnam memorials at Easter time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Luca Brasi, post: 1280033, member: 23282"] Love Ken Burns' work, and not just because he's a northener. I groaned during one winter storm when the wife wanted to watch Gone With the Wind, but I never realized how much interesting history it contained. Can't imagine what they went through down there that didn't really affect us up here. In fact after the war is when most New England farms were abandoned, as returning soldiers discovered what real farm land was like and packed up and moved elsewhere to avoid steep hills and endless rocks. Today as a result we are mostly forested. It is not uncommon to be deep in the woods and come across an old stone wall that signified that there was once a pasture where you stand. Southern farmers I imagine would have given anything to have seed to plant their land, let alone the luxury to just be able to up and abandon it. FWIW, there is a statue of a Civil War soldier in my town common. Every Christmas someone, I assume even with the blessing of the town since they hang lights on the trees there, puts a Santa hat on the statue. I'm not nearly what you would call a flag waver, but I have enough common consideration to at least respect that others have deep seated beliefs about these things to just sit quietly while they exercise them, as long as they don't push anything in my face. I've always found the hat thing to be disrespectful, and wonder if it would be received just as well if I put a set of bunny ears on the WWII or Vietnam memorials at Easter time. [/QUOTE]
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