tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post7644838739510259920..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Thinking about Feel-Good HistoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-4566426524935339412021-06-15T15:20:19.122-05:002021-06-15T15:20:19.122-05:00The painting is definitely a product of its time—a...The painting is definitely a product of its time—about a hundred years after the war it depicted. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-7018034021905201752021-06-13T22:09:53.976-05:002021-06-13T22:09:53.976-05:00Can't help but notice the fifer in Willard'...Can't help but notice the fifer in Willard's "Spirit of '76" is depicted with a beard...G. Lovelynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-51001634040709050002021-06-12T11:00:25.484-05:002021-06-12T11:00:25.484-05:00My father was all about how stories of American hi...My father was all about how stories of American history made one feel. No doubt that was in large part because he grew up in one of the poorest sections of Brooklyn and escaped through service in WWII. As a result, as I grew up in southern California and expressed an interest in history, he made sure family trips went to Civil War battlefields snd famous Revolution sites — that was what he saw as getting history lessons — and I’ll never forget how disappointed and even angry he was that Boston didn’t “preserve history” like Colonial Williamsburg, Obviously I went in a different direction, and although I don’t think he ever quite understood he did come to respect it.Dan Mandellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13041359249860782060noreply@blogger.com