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.
highly recommend the book , Two years before the mast
ReplyDeleteGood book, make sure you look in the non-fiction section.
DeleteOr if you read any of Patrick O'Brian series, you have visualized that picture dozens of times.
ReplyDeleteCW, am I seeing this right, you guys are under a Winter Storm Warning?? Pix or it didn't happen.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow night and Friday night will tell the tale. I'll post pics if anything happens.
DeleteThere should be an antenna up there.
ReplyDeletevery nearly top. Not quite.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine furling sails up there under these conditions and yet they did.
No place for me! That old 14 point buck didn't didn't that rack by being stupid!
ReplyDeleteI work on boats at water level,we send the young skinny up the mast.
ReplyDelete‘No friggin in the rigging’…
ReplyDeletethat's not a niblick in his left hand, is it?
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