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Welcome to my weekly update for February 20, 2022!
We went to the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site yesterday. Charles Pinckney was “a principal author and signer of the United States Constitution” according to the NPS website. He was very active in the Constitutional Convention and contributed roughly 28 clauses to the final document, some of which are very significant (Two chambers in the House of Representatives, one executive called the President, the “elimination of religious testing as a qualification to office.”) He was also a slave owner and either a proposer or supporter of the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted each enslaved person as 3/5 of a person for the purposes of determining representation in the government (His role varies depending on the source I checked.) He also said “if slavery be wrong, it is justified by the example of all the world.” So he’s a mixed bag, like so many of our Founding Fathers.
This site is also part of the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor. The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of enslaved people who retained much of their African heritage because the plantations where they were enslaved were so isolated.
Slideshow:
All images © Jennifer G. at Introverted Reader 2022
- Charles Pinckney’s House at Snell Farm
- Camellia Bushes and the US Flag
- Camellia Flower
- New Testament in the Gullah Language
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Wild Rover No More: Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times of Jacky Faber (Bloody Jack #12) by L. A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren 🌟🌟🌟
North American Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Continent by Matthew Bucklan and Victor Cizek, illustrated by Jack Dunnington 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, written and read by Rob Sheffield 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World by James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti 🌟🌟🌟½ Stars
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf 🌟🌟🌟 ½ Stars
Currently Reading:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Beach Music by Pat Conroy, read by Jonathan Marosz
The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry, edited by Jay Parini
Up Next:
Each of these books is over 500 pages (Something I most definitely did not realize as I downloaded them!) so I’ll be reading them for quite a while.
What did your week look like?
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz hosts The Sunday Salon and Kimberly at Caffeinated Book Reviewer hosts Sunday Post. Kathryn at Book Date hosts It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
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I’ve about the Gullah Geechee people. One of the places I’d love to visit one day. I feel like all of human history is just a mixed bag! Charles Pinckney is not one you hear about often.
I see Serafina and the Black Cloak on there. I definitely want to visit Biltmore house one day. My son and I jus started the fourth and final book in the series.
Love Is a Mixtape is on my list for books on grief. I should get to it this year.
I hope you have a lovely week!
Beach Music is one of my lifetime favorites! It’s been easily 25 years since I read it and every year I intend to read it again, but never do. I’ve reread two books so far in 2022, so maybe I’ll continue and reread a favorite each month. How are you enjoying the audio version?
I really like it! I’m trying to decide if the narrator is really a Southerner. It’s different from my own Appalachian twang so easier to fool my ears. And it’s becoming more rare to hear a heavy accent in either case, since we’re all watching more TV. Real or not, I like listening to him!
Enjoy your big books! I haven’t read any of the ones you’ve mentioned, but I tried Big Magic and didn’t finish it. I had The Rook on my radar for a while, and still want to read Love Is a Mix Tape. Thanks for visiting my blog! I have my daughter visiting from NY this weekend, so haven’t had much time for blog hopping, even though Presidents’ Day is a holiday for me.
Enjoy your visit with your daughter and the long weekend!
Wow, those are all thick books you’re working on! Hopefully at least the poetry collection can be easily read in small chunks, so maybe that won’t feel as intimidating.
That’s the plan. And one of them is audio so that will help too.
Love the pictures. Looks like a great week of reading. Have a good week! https://cindysbookcorner.blogspot.com/2022/02/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-6-22.html
Thanks!
Love the pictures. I also love all your books about maps – makes my Geography Major’s heart happy. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
Oh, fun! I didn’t know you were a geography major! You would like these atlases then.
I have to figure out how to arrange my book cover images all in a row like you do! But then I use blogger, so it may be different for me. Not a coder, lol. First time here? I think? Happy reading. My Monday bookshelf is up!http://www.lyndonperrywriter.com/2022/02/book-date-monday-amreading-feb-21.html
I haven’t used Blogger since 2016 so I probably won’t be much help. I think Blogger uses a block editor now? I use a gallery or tiled gallery block to arrange multiple covers in WordPress. Blogger should have something similar, I imagine. For Top Ten Tuesday, I just usually create a collage in Photoshop. Good luck! It’s pretty easy in WordPress once you know there’s a block for it.
It sounds like an interesting trip! And the house is cute. I’d love to live in a pretty house like that. Enjoy your new books!
I enjoyed the Pat Conroy book! Great slideshow, too.
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Thanks! I’ve never read Conroy before, which is kind of shocking to me since I’m a Carolina girl. I’m enjoying Beach Music immensely so far.
It is a pretty little house, isn’t it? Not what you picture for a Founding Father’s house. But this was the smallest of his seven(?) plantations. Can you imagine?
I’ve only read Beach Music but have heard of some of the others. Nice trip you took to the plantation. Apparently some founders believed in the adage: do what I say, not what I do.
Exactly. A lot of current leaders believe the same thing. I guess some things never change.
I am pretty sure I had a book about Charles Pinckney kicking around here for a while, but I never read it. I might have donated it to the library book sale.
Meant to read My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, but haven’t gotten to it yet. Glad to know you liked it. The poetry anthology looks interesting. Hope you enjoy it.
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Oh, wow! I’m surprised you’ve heard of him. I never had and I’m from neighboring North Carolina.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of my favorite books! I read it first in college and several times since, although it has been a while since I picked it up. Maybe it is time for a re-read?
Have a great week!
I’ve got about 80 pages to go and I’m eager to see how it wraps up. I’m kicking myself for not giving Anne a try earlier!
Founders a mixed bag and politicians today, same. Love that you get to visit such historical places. 500 page and counting books can soak up reading time for sure.
They sure can. That’s why I usually read them in the winter time, when I’m less active. I just didn’t plan to tackle so many of them at once! That’s a problem with digital books!
Yes the Founders wanted all the rights for themselves just not women or black or Native Americans, no one other than old white men. I planted a camellia bush last year but it’s not very big yet. It’s great seeming picture of places you visit.
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Pinckney was surprisingly young to be at the Constitutional Convention. Something like 25 or 30. But yes, I agree with your sentiment. Old white men wanted and a lot of them still want all the power for themselves. It’s infuriating.
Love those pics! And yes the Founders… such a mixed bag, if often seems.
Thanks! I guess no one is all good or all bad but their images sure are getting more and more tarnished as we learn more truths about their lives.
There is so much history in that area! Thanks for sharing your travels… you’ve given me a few ideas.
I remember loving Beach Music when I first read it 20+ years ago. I borrowed it from the library a couple of years ago following Pat Conroy’s death, but never got a chance to reread it. Maybe this year…
I’m really enjoying Beach Music so far and kicking myself for not reading Conroy’s works earlier. I think I just said essentially the same thing about Anne Bronte in another reply above. I may have overwhelmed myself with chunksters but at least they’re good chunksters!
I love maps and that book about North American maps looks super interesting!
You should pick it up! It’s a quick read and I thought it was fascinating.
I remember seeing a little about the Gullah Geechee quilts, maybe at the International Quilt Festival a few years back. They were amazing.
I’ve been curious about The Invention of Nature, so I thank you for your review. And I’m glad you enjoyed North American Maps for Curious Minds.
Those are some big books. I certainly didn’t realize the Brontë book was that big!
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is right at 500 pages. I grabbed an edition at the library that is combined with Agnes Grey. I thought each book would be about half the length of the whole volume. Nope. Tenant is 2/3 of the brick!
I’d like to do a Gullah Geechee history tour while we’re here in Charleston but I’ve only found one real option so far and while it has great reviews, most people agree that the guide doesn’t say much about that culture. I’ll keep looking.
That had to be fascinating to see! Wow, you have some heavy duty reading,good luck!
We had a good time! Mostly it was just nice to get outside and see the sun.