About Wednesday 28 February 1665/66

A. Hamilton on 1 Mar 2019  •  Link

talking of the melancholy posture of affairs, where every body is snarling one at another, and all things put together looke ominously

Plus ca change

About Friday 24 April 1663

A. Hamilton on 25 Apr 2016  •  Link

School I entered at age 13 in 1947 gave up flogging (hedmaster's two-inch leather belt) just two years before, in 1945 -- thankfully.

About Monday 2 February 1662/63

A. Hamilton on 4 Feb 2016  •  Link

Coventry's professed willingness "(now he finds himself secured from fear of want)" to do what he thinks right "though he thwarts others greater than himself" reminds me of a story about Averill Harriman, who after having been governor of New York and an unsuccessful presidential candidate took a fourth-level State Department job in the Kennedy Administration. At one point he found himself the acting official responsible for a policy decision that he took in opposition to the known view of the president and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. A young foreign service officer asked him how he had the courage to go against his superiors, and Harriman replied! " Because I have great wealth."

About Sunday 2 June 1661

A. Hamilton on 3 Jun 2014  •  Link

I personally never knew the parrot. Since the event occurred around 1900 in Chapel Hill, N.C., I suspect the parrot has not survived. Another story about the bird: It was digging in the garden behind the house until only its tail feathers were showing. They attracted a neighboring cat which crept up, ready to pounce, when the parrot raised its head and said "Here kitty kitty." The cat departed quickly.