And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Hangman's tree.
The food was so lousy and the beer so warm that they hung the cook.
Back in the day, up in little Jamestown, Ca., they used to have a hanging man just like that right on main street. You would come into town and that was the first thing you'd see. Somewhere along the line they took him down, and now it's just one more touristy gold rush town. We used to love it as kids, even though we knew it wasn't real. The very idea, let alone the faux gruesome reality, made grownups seem a lot cooler in our eyes.
There was a hanging man at the Hangman's Tree Bar on Main Street, Placerville for many years. It seems to re-appear every now and then and some of the locals go crazy.
It's about time. And the hanged man was pleasingly white. If it had been a black cook, it would be a hate crime.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, up in little Jamestown, Ca., they used to have a hanging man just like that right on main street. You would come into town and that was the first thing you'd see. Somewhere along the line they took him down, and now it's just one more touristy gold rush town. We used to love it as kids, even though we knew it wasn't real. The very idea, let alone the faux gruesome reality, made grownups seem a lot cooler in our eyes.
DeleteThere was a hanging man at the Hangman's Tree Bar on Main Street, Placerville for many years. It seems to re-appear every now and then and some of the locals go crazy.
ReplyDeleteA hanging trend!
DeleteSo what was the word he couldn't spell?
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha! Took me a few seconds - good one.
DeleteGreat ad.
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