Tuesday, January 25, 2005

"Nuclear Wessels" is closed

I found this site, (http://www.cfmc.com/adamb/me.htm) and just started reading it. [He teaches a section of class in the history of the US in the 1960's from President Kennedy's assassination to President Nixon's resignation. - Ed. "Wilbur bring me some more hay!"] Came to it by way of looking for Anthony F.C. Wallace, who I read in anthropological studies in Buffalo, NY. I thought Rockdale was near West Chester, PA large shipbuilding town. It built the sidewheeler "S.S. City of Atlanta". My Canadian grand-uncle, Master Mariner Leman Urquhart, was the captain of it (in a long line of captains, that is many, apparently getting on and off, he a harbor pilot, was probably early in the war, "wanted" to get in and out of the Savannah and New York harbors) torpedoed with the loss of 43 lives off Cape Hatteras, NC in January 1942 by U-123. "Operation Drumbeat" by scholar Michael Gannon goes into the "Battle of the Atlantic" that happened, (again you might as a historian say, it's happened before, European powers fighting out their wars in the Atlantic). Anyway, on your guide to yourself page "changing nature of technolgy" should be changed is my comment? My own observations, of Grand Manan Island where my grandfather Lawrence Urquhart came from, is that technology, as he would agree, has helped make some things easier, i.e., vacuums to get fish out of holds, but now the whole world is close to losing its fisheries from over fishing. The cannery shut down on Grand Manan in Seal Cove where I once lived vicariously, next to the herring smokesheds, BumbleBee bought the Connors Brothers cannery there and now it's shutdown I hear. Canada is sponsoring an international meeting on overfishing. We need treaties without borders. First settled, Seal Cove, by an American, Dr. Faxon, whose loyalties challenged, left in the War of 1812, built the first sailing ship on the Island its written in "Grand Manan A Diamond in the Sea" which maybe I'll read someday. They still have a "downeast" (Maine) accent there, more English up in the North Head, where the ferry puts in and "Hemoglobin" with Rutger Hauer as a vampire(?) was filmed, around the Swallowtail Light now a "bed and breakfast". I work in "contract archaeology" (for a number of years) which, legally required, is being done less and less. Is lawlessness by the "legal" on the rise?

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