George Musk

German soldiers crowded around a Christmas tree celebrating Christmas somewhere on the Western Front during World War I.

American stands with Israel 🇮🇱✊

Back in the late 1990’s Julia Hill climbed a 1500-year-old redwood tree named Luna and she didn’t come down for another 738 days.

From December 1997 to December 1999, she lived in the canopy of a giant 1500 year old redwood tree named Luna. She ended her revolutionary action when an agreement was made with Pacific Lumber Company to spare the tree and a 200 foot buffer zone surrounding the tree.

Once up the tree, she vowed not to come down until she had made a difference. Clinging to her mattress through violent storms, supported with food and necessities by a ground crew, she stayed two years and eight days.

I was born at Rose Hospital in L.A. (since closed), and for my first three years Mama, Daddy, my older sister Geri, and I lived here, at 1706 1/4 Sixth Avenue, Los Angeles, in a 600 sq ft cottage, 1 BR & 1 BA.

Then it was off to Anaheim & other parts of Orange County (no, we don't call it "the OC"). A brief college stay in Portland, Oregon, spent time in the San Gabriel Valley, years in Burbank; now in Valley Village.

As I was decluttering some paperwork, I came upon my birth certificate, and saw the address of where I lived in those few years, and looked it up and got an interesting surprise when I looked at current photos...

The area is called Arlington Heights and "defined as the area bounded by the west side of Arlington Avenue, the east side of Crenshaw Boulevard, the north side of Washington Boulevard and the south side of Pico Boulevard."

It has a rich history of diversity when diversity wasn't cool. It wasn't for rich folks then or now, and most families were multigenerational in small cottages like the one we lived in.

It is even more racially and ethnically diverse than when we lived there, with many languages spoken, but I do remember hearing languages I didn't understand.

Spanish, even though I knew very little, I had often heard from my maternal grandmother who spoke 7 languages fluently. But Mama said that the first time I heard someone speaking Chinese I told her it sounded like "funny music."

I find it interesting to compare old homes to how they look today, and this one's personal, and filled with memories of friendly neighbors, stepping down the stairs to see who was outside & ready to play, and distinct and different spices and cooking odors filling the air near dinner time.

Some were in China, so gorgeous🥰🥰🥰🌺💐🌻🌸🏵⚘

Learn Our History Today: On August 10, 1861, during the Civil War, the first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought near Springfield, Missouri. At the beginning of the Civil War, Missouri was a state with divided loyalties. On one hand, it was a slave state with many of its citizens supporting the institution. On the other hand, Missouri contained many people who staunchly supported the Union, and it also had recently experienced a large influx of German immigrants, most of whom were Unionists. When the Civil War erupted, Missouri quickly formed two governments, one Confederate and one Union.

The Union was the more powerful of the two and in short order the Confederate Government was forced to go on the run to the southwest portion of the state. However, the Confederate faction was able to put a substantial army in the field, known as the Missouri State Guard. These men were not very well trained, and their arms consisted mainly of hunting shotguns and old flintlock muskets, but they numbered in the thousands and were led by an able commander, General Sterling Price.

In August 1861, the Missouri State Guard together with the Confederate Army of the West under General Benjamin McCulloch began a campaign to retake Missouri for the Confederacy, starting in the southwest corner. Unfortunately for the Confederates, while camped on the banks of Wilson's Creek, their planned offensive was cut short by a preemptive assault from the Union army of Nathaniel Lyon, which consisted mainly of Unionist Missourians and Kansans. In the fighting that ensued, it initially appeared that the Union would be victorious, as they had pushed the Missouri State Guard from their positions atop a rise known as Oak Hill, and they had driven back McCulloch's men from their campsite on the creek. However, thanks to the skill of McCulloch and Price, the Confederates organized counterattacks and charges all along the line, knocking the federals back across Wilson's Creek and up the face of Oak Hill.

While McCulloch's men were able to drive the federals back with relative ease, Price had a much harder time of it, and Oak Hill soon earned a new nickname, Bloody Hill. Both sides charged up and down the slopes of the hill, which were steep, rocky, tangled, and wood covered. The shotguns of the Confederate Missourians were particularly deadly in the dense undergrowth. For a while the momentum swayed back and forth, and it wasn't until Lyon was killed at the head of a charge that the battle turned in the South's favor. At the end of the fighting, both sides had lost more than a thousand soldiers, and although it was a Confederate victory, the Southerners were not able to continue their offensive as the army was badly battered and almost completely out of ammo.

Also, on this day in the U.S. history:
1821: Missouri is admitted as the 24th state
1948: ABC debuts Candid Camera, hosted by Allen Funt
1977: The United States and Panama signed the Panama Canal Zone accord

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Beautiful moment around the world. 🌏🌐🥰🤩🤩🥰😍🤩

Beauty is all around you. 🥰🥰🥰⚡⚡

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Appreciate life, trust every process.

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She drank whiskey, swore often, and smoked handmade ci**rs. She wore pants under her skirt and a gun under her apron. At six feet tall and two hundred pounds, Mary Fields was an intimidating woman.

Mary lived in Montana, in a town called Cascade. She was a special member of the community there. All schools would close on her birthday, and though women were not allowed entry into saloons, she was given special permission by the mayor to come in anytime and to any saloon she liked.

But Mary wasn’t from Montana. She was born into enslavement in Tennessee sometime in the early 1830s, and lived enslaved for more than thirty years until slavery was abolished. As a free woman, life led her first to Florida to work for a family and then Ohio when part of the family moved.

When Mary was 52, her close friend who lived in Montana became ill with pneumonia. Upon hearing the news, Mary dropped everything and came to nurse her friend back to health. Her friend soon recovered and Mary decided to stay in Montana settling in Cascade.

Her beginning in Cascade wasn’t smooth. To make ends meet, she first tried her hand at the restaurant business. She opened a restaurant, but she wasn’t much of a chef. And she was also too generous, never refusing to serve a customer who couldn’t pay. So the restaurant failed within a year.

But then in 1895, when in her sixties, Mary, or as “Stagecoach Mary” as she was sometimes called because she never missed a day of work, became the second woman and first African American to work as a mail carrier in the U.S. She got the job because she was the fastest applicant to hitch six horses.

Eventually she retired to a life of running a laundry business. And babysitting all the kids in town. And going to baseball games. And being friends with much of the townsfolk.

This was Mary Fields. A rebel, a legend.

Good Morning Thursday 🌄 🌅

Having a wonderful weekend how about you?

Wonderful atmosphere out here

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