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.
When I was in school, in Florida in the 80s, our school had a radio station.
I was listening to what I knew as Bluegrass music, when a girl with a Scottish accent came on and announced that this was old Scottish folk music.
It dawned on me then that people had arrived, gone into the hills of Appalachia with their music, and stayed there unbothered by time, until after WW1, when radio had brought this music to the rest of America.
I believe they mean "Scots"-Irish. Scotch is a whiskey.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in school, in Florida in the 80s, our school had a radio station.
ReplyDeleteI was listening to what I knew as Bluegrass music, when a girl with a Scottish accent came on and announced that this was old Scottish folk music.
It dawned on me then that people had arrived, gone into the hills of Appalachia with their music, and stayed there unbothered by time, until after WW1, when radio had brought this music to the rest of America.
Charlie