Realities of everyday life in the 1790s

Young America Post #2 The first thing I noticed were the icicles hanging from the roof of what looked like your everyday gazebo in the local park. Then I noticed ice on the dirt all around the base of the little structure. Then––how could I not have seen this first?––the ladies, seemingly dressed in every …

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What future?

Okay. You’ve done it. You’ve thrown off the yoke of the Mother Country. So now will each man and woman go back to wanting what they want for themselves and their families, disregarding all others? Will the new leaders become as much the money-grubbers and usurpers as the regime that was just disposed of? Is …

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