Black Swamp Heritage Articles
(c) Bill Oliver
23 May 2004
Vol 3 Issue: #20
ISBN: 1542-9474
Good Evening from the Black Swamp of NWoHIo,
Daniel Radcliffe [Harry Potter] recently was interviewed and is
attributed as saying that he wasn't a reader before reading the first
Harry Potter book but has now gone on to reading other books. Our
youngest grandchild, about to turn six years, is constantly asking what
this or that word is. She reads every printed word she finds. Her
Black Swamp Heritage Articles
(c) Bill Oliver
2 May 2004
Vol 3 Issue: #18
ISBN: 1542-9474
Good Evening from the Black Swamp of NWoHIo,
In "America" we have grown with the idea that this was the land of
opportunity and that anyone could rise above his birth station in
society. It has to be recognized that there are few social systems that
are so rigid that the possibility of rising to higher classes is
impossible. In the feudal systems of the past, if ambition drove a
you
Black Swamp Heritage Articles
(c) Bill Oliver
16 May 2004
Vol 3 Issue: #19
ISBN: 1542-9474
Good Evening from the Black Swamp of NWoHIo,
On this date in 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first
woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. An admiral feat.
Many of our ancestral grandmothers married very young by our modern
standards. On May the sixteenth in 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14,
married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15. My Grandma's
Moth