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Taran Rampersad@DoomsdaysCW that's really cool!
I would love to live in a place like that.
There is a photographer (#AlexDeSteiguer) who lives on the island in the winter. Some days, I really want her job! @knowprose
Isles of Shoals caretaker
Bill RickerSOME days. The other days are why our settler ancestors whom the ocean hadn't yet killed moved to the mainland.
Interesting factoid -- #ThomasMorton, who supplied guns to the local Native Americans and celebrated Pagan rituals atop Merrymount in Quincy, was banished to the Shoals as punishment for his "crimes". He was rescued by some friends before winter set in. @n1vux @knowprose
I wonder how the fisherfolk felt about Morton being exiled amongst them.
Those Isles, NH, & ME were distinctly less Puritan[ical] than Mass Bay and New Plimoth Colonies; p'raps they found use for him until he was rescued.
So, Morton's exile (1628) was before Andrew Haley and family settled on the Shoals in the 1650s (I'm a descendant of Haley). There wasn't much there at the time. Maybe a dock? Native Americans had been living there prior to 1623, but had abandoned the islands by the time Captain Leavitt set foot on them. I don't wonder if maybe Morton's Native American friends rescued him. @n1vux @knowprose
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Cousin! ❤
(I'm on the (T) returning from a Scotch-infused Wake 💔🥃 , so I don't have my references at fingertips RIP Joe.)
Oh geesh, is that like an Irish wake, @n1vux ?
And yeah, the fisherfolk were pretty wild, @n1vux . The women were as tough as the men, they say. @knowprose
@DoomsdaysCW @n1vux that was a different era. Tough was relative. Survival was different.
And... it was simpler.
The era when poking bears was literal.
I imagine that phrase came from counting coup.
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Song says
🎵 "Cape Cod Girls, they got no combs;
They do their hair with Codfish bones."
Isles of Shoals would only be more-so! ❤
Heh. That sounds like my ancestor all right, @n1vux !