Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 189
December 3, 2013
Lenora Rogers – Author
I want to wish everyone, Happy Holidays. This is the time of year for giving. We should all find a way to give back to those less fortunate. We all have had hard times at some point in our lives and someone may have helped you. A great way to give back is to find your local soup kitchen and volunteer. If you are buying groceries and you see a mother or father with their children, offer to pay some on their groceries. I have often took the time to take a meal to my neighbors. Another good way...
Kilmartin Glen: prehistoric sites
One of the richest prehistoric landscapes in Britain, Kilmartin glen is littered with monoliths, stone circles and burial mounds. These are just some of them. There's a lot of speculation as to how these different sites interrelated with each other, because, like most neolithic and bronze age sites, they were in use over long periods with overlap between different sites,
December 2, 2013
ENGLAND IS BORN ON THE BLOODY FIELD AT BRUNANBURH
Reblogged from The Deadliest Blogger: Military History Page:
The Battle of Brunanburh is largely unknown toall but the mostdie-hard buffs of Anglo-Saxon or Viking history. But it is a battle that deserves to be remembered. For it was the largest and bloodiest battle fought in Anglo-Saxon England prior to Hastings (and likely surpassing that later battle in the numbers of combatants involved). It left its victor, King Athelstan of Wessex, the first Anglo-Saxon king to be called “King of Englan...
Suffolk Artist: John Constable
Reblogged from Historical Writings:
John Constable, one of England’s prominent artists, was born to Golding and Anne Constable on the 11th June 1776, at the family home, in the picturesque village of East Bergholt, on the Suffolk/Essex border.
Golding trained John, his son in the ways of the family business, working within the mill, as it was expected of him, to follow in his father’s footsteps.
December 1, 2013
Reviews ~ Unsung Ladylike (and not so Ladylike) Women of Note
Reblogged from Victoria Adams' Reading Alcove:
4,000 Years of Uppity Women by Vicki Leon Available for around $11.00
There is one aisle I should never, ever visit at Barnes and Noble; but oh the treasurers I would miss. I really can’t walk into one of those stores without browsing up and down the bargain aisle. Not only are there delightful treasures, but they are at such tempting prices.
Cindy Koepp – Author
Writing on the Edge
Myriad Musings;http://ckoepp.webs.com/apps/blog/show/38139263-not-all-boxes-are-oatmeal-boxes
November 28, 2013
Reflections ~ Holiday Haunts
Reblogged from Victoria Adams' Reading Alcove:
I am always conflicted when it comes to holidays. It may be in part due to the historian in me. I’m always poking into closets and behind the curtains to see what there is to know about origins and metamorphosis. Consequently, I often find the unpleasant aspects of things we have learned to cherish. A few examples might be appropriate.
November 23, 2013
Reflections ~ If you were “there,” it never really goes away.
Reblogged from Victoria Adams' Reading Alcove:
This week, here in America, many of us are recognizing a moment in history when the course of our history changed. I know there are many such moments; times when the myriad possibilities that stretch before us solidify into the future path. However, if you were alive and well in the early 60s; the assassination of President Kennedy was more than a defining moment.
November 22, 2013
Note #123 The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Reblogged from Jazzybeatchick Writes...:
The Weary Blues
by Langston Hughes
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
He did a lazy sway . . .
He did a lazy sway . . .
To the tune o' those Weary Blues.
November 20, 2013
An Dullahan - The Real Headless Horseman
Reblogged from EdMooneyPhotography:
“The Dullahan serves no master but death.”
Now for a more sinister tale from Irish lore. The Dullahan is the original Headless horseman on which the character from the 1820’s tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow may be based. The Dullahan or Gan Ceann is said to be a dark Faerie, a collector of souls, whom roams the countryside at midnight in search of suitable souls to take.
