We are approaching our 249th birthday as a nation. Sometimes we think of the Founding Fathers as these august statesmen, but in reality things were very cantankerous in the days leading up the Jefferson presenting the Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress. In this episode of Sunday Nights Radio we retrace the Path to Declaration.
On a Sunday night, I think it’s a good exercise to set aside politics and in the dark house learn about the mysteries and legends we tend to ignore during the fray of the week. The Great Lakes is rife with legends of serpents and other leviathan lurking in the blue fresh waters that surround Michigan. Mackinac Island even had a sighting of a great serpent. It seems the legends of the First Nation transmitted to the early settlers and inhabitants of Great Lakes states. In fact we’ll look at a video from 2019 that is really odd.
References
Some of these articles from Cultural Courage were referenced in this episode, you should check them out.
Asserting Versus Demanding
As I write this I have the luxury of having the fan on and the windows open and the house to myself. What a contrast in comfort modern convenience is compared to the same day on July 2nd 1776, where a room full of men, hot and sweating from the heat of Philadelphia and the weight of their wigs and heavy clothing, debated ideas of liberty. if those idea…
Founders History: John Dickinson and Choosing Principles Over Public Opinion
A free people therefore can never be too quick in observing, nor too firm in opposing the beginnings of alteration either in form or reality, respecting institutions formed for their security…the forms of liberty may be retained, when the substance is gone.
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