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.
Towed out along some backwater slough, a person or family could live there in peace. No roads (or grid electricity) to lead someone there, you would have to know its there to find it.
The disco ball is there to reflect a spotlight for locating when you're approaching it in the dark. At least that's what an old swamp guy told me when I saw a ball hanging from the rafters of one while it was being towed through a slough in Louisiana.
Towed out along some backwater slough, a person or family could live there in peace. No roads (or grid electricity) to lead someone there, you would have to know its there to find it.
ReplyDeleteIt's the disco ball that really makes it.
ReplyDeleteThe disco ball is there to reflect a spotlight for locating when you're approaching it in the dark. At least that's what an old swamp guy told me when I saw a ball hanging from the rafters of one while it was being towed through a slough in Louisiana.
ReplyDeleteThat explanation makes a lot of sense. I see many rural properties with unique road side reflectors to identify that certain location.
DeleteI'd live there SO fast it'd make my head swim...
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