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.
Friday, November 24, 2023
Two of Dutton Calleb’s sons watering the mule, Southern Appalachian Project near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky, 1940
My mother’s oldest sister was born in 1940 and my grandparents didn’t live in a house with electricity and running water until the mid-50s. Yet, I never once heard them complain.
My mother’s oldest sister was born in 1940 and my grandparents didn’t live in a house with electricity and running water until the mid-50s. Yet, I never once heard them complain.
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