07-28-2016, 02:46 PM
Quote:On Wednesday, we head to Milford, CT to talk to Alex Orban, 3 time Olympian and 5 time National Champion.
Deja Vu again is right. Wednesday was yesterday. You must be time traveling.
--tg
PS: for some entertaining New England reading, pick up a copy of "Yankee Doodle Boy" or one of the other versions of the story. (The full version of the book "A narrative of some of the adventures, dangers, and sufferings of a Revolutionary soldier, interspersed with anecdotes of incidents that occurred within his own observation.") It's the first-hand experience of a revolutionary soldier named Joseph Plumb Martin who lived on a farm in Milford with his aunt and uncle and when the Empire came, he wanted to join the rebels with all his friends, but was turned down because he was too young. He hated working on the vapor farm and fixing droids and snuck off and tried again and ended up a foot soldier for the next 8 years, walking up and down the east coast in various kinds of shitty weather, with shitty provisions, being shot at by Redcoats, Tories, and Hessians. The full version of the book can get a little slow at times, but you really get a sense of the awful conditions that these young men had to deal with. The promise of regular pay and land for most never really came. He was a young adult when he was a soldier, but didn't end up writing the memoir until his 80's, so I'm sure there's some disconnect from his memory and reality, also, it was published by an editor and I suspect the stories were "punched up" a bit. I don't want to give away too much, but the goose story is pretty funny and battle on the island in the rain is a great story about using limited resources to full advantage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Plumb_Martin