TODAY IN HISTORY!

& today's the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr. see:

www.thekingcenter.org

some history stuff:

a friend of mine runs a literary magazine. He is doing some neat stuff. He is now taking the magazine into an historical direction...when people submit poems they have to research an era of history and base the work on that.

I thought that was a neat idea.

hmmmm other history things?

Well, I was editor of my junior high school paper. I assigned all the articles and the following week, a day before we published, no one
had submitted a thing. I stayed up all night long and wrote the history of my town. It actually turned out to be pretty interesting. Union, NJ
was settled in 1666 by some folks from Connecticut. There are still a few colonial buildings around town. There is a colonial era church here at which there was some battle or skirmish. They ran out of wadding for the guns, so the pastor told them to rip up the Watts hymnals.
There was some kind of famous cry out of that, "Give 'em Watts, boys!"

But my favorite historical thing about Union, is that the main street through town, Morris Avenue, had actually been an Indian trail. I've always wondered if some of those, say, colonial era Indian trails had a really ancient history and perhaps the trail was used for hundreds
and hundreds of years prior...