finding the stories inside history
Finding the stories inside of history
Everyone knows American history. We get some in school every year. But do you know the stories behind the stories?
The history of Jamestown is replete with strange stories of murder, cannibalism and people giving up on life. How about the FIRST civil uprising, in 1635? Or the FIRST Civil War, also known as Bacon's Rebellion, in 1676? Interesting that that was exactly 100 years before the Revolution. We know so little of our own past. It is time to learn more. The books I write are all about history, from the perspective of those who lived it, but didn't know it was going to go down as footnotes. How did the colonies get established? How and why did the royal interests spread? Were there political discussions abounding in all the bars, like present day discussions? And how about women? |
What place did women have in the development of colonial America? Only a handful of women came to Jamestown before 1619. Then the Pilgrims and Puritans came to Massachusetts Bay Colony. Were they the stay-at-home people they are so often depicted as being? No! There were religious zealots, women who established their own towns, midwives and healers, in the place of doctors of today. Women you have never heard of include Mary Von der Donck O'Neale, Ann Graves Cotton Eaton, and Sarah Harris Grendon. Each of these women played a role in the early days of the Virginia colony. Mary used herbs to heal people. Ann had the misfortune to marry scalawags; we did not know that type came over here so soon. Sarah raised awareness of the Rebellion of 1676 and paid a price! Did they sit around gossiping over tea?
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ABOUT MEA mom, a writer, a gardener and an avid follower of current history and politics. Born in upstate New York, I have lived in Ohio, Virginia, Boston, New Haven Connecticut and along the Hudson River. I have traveled to Europe and Japan. Most recently we took a dog and a 24 foot trailer to go on an adventurous 12,500 mile ride to Alaska.
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