tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post9146098165018982324..comments2024-03-11T05:03:14.020-07:00Comments on Ernie's Place: The GatheringErnie Branscombhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-84807674742145990842013-07-24T22:02:09.740-07:002013-07-24T22:02:09.740-07:00Olmanriver and Spy are talking about a second bloo...Olmanriver and Spy are talking about a second bloody run massacre in Dos Rios 1872<br /><br /><a href="http://ernielb.blogspot.com/2013/07/just-to-keep-my-toe-in-doorway.html" rel="nofollow"> go to this link</a>Ernie Branscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-60301921132467313972013-07-24T21:42:43.260-07:002013-07-24T21:42:43.260-07:00Back to Jim, I accidentally posted before I was th...Back to Jim, I accidentally posted before I was through. The legends say that if you can look down on Trinidad Head. you are safely high enough.Ernie Branscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-67334553121900869042013-07-24T21:39:29.838-07:002013-07-24T21:39:29.838-07:00Jim Baker
It's good to hear from you. I miss o...Jim Baker<br />It's good to hear from you. I miss our "deeply intelligent"<br />conversations. <br /><br />Watch out for tidal waves! How high did that wave get in 1700? <br /><br />"When the sky thunders seek low ground. When the ground thunders seek high ground" <i> Old Indian tidal wave warning</i> Ernie Branscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-55269582207459347812013-07-24T21:31:09.905-07:002013-07-24T21:31:09.905-07:00Ross
I've been thinking about "what drew ...Ross<br />I've been thinking about "what drew these people to this area?" In a lot of cases it was what drove people away from where they were. Humanity seems to seek it's own level like water in a pond. <br /><br />Most people don't like the intrusion of newcomers with different ideas and cultures, and they move to places that they think will be better than tolerating them. Unfortunately they become the newcomers wherever they move to.<br /><br />Human beings are never really satisfied wherever they are. There is always the illusion that things will be better somewhere else. Most often it's not.<br /><br />Once you decide that "this is home and nobody is going to crowd me out" you become much more tolerant of the cultures that used to offend your sensibilities.<br /><br />Maybe some people move because they are looking for a better life and they actually find it. Myself? I hate to step out of what I know best. This is "home" for me. I have even began to like some of the newcomers, and they seem to tolerate me, They must see that I'm not going anywhere no matter how hard they push.<br /><br />Has anybody out there found a better life by moving?Ernie Branscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391160783604462511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-29581268985283145042013-07-24T19:19:47.212-07:002013-07-24T19:19:47.212-07:00No "corks" in the Crummy............No "corks" in the Crummy............Ross Sherburnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-63824185400607927222013-07-24T09:24:05.840-07:002013-07-24T09:24:05.840-07:00Good to have you and your musings back Ernie. Gree...Good to have you and your musings back Ernie. Greetings from Trinidad. I've circled back to my ancestors' original County roots near Big Lagoon and Crannell. Great-grandfather Paulsen jumped ship in Trinidad in 1883 and proceeded to do his part in the propagation of little Paulsens and Bakers throughout the area. Too late for the "Indian War" period that your ancestors were in the middle of, but just in time for the redwood logging boom times, so I guess I could bear some family guilt as well in the eyes of some who came later, if I chose to do so. As you and I have discussed, one had to be in the shoes (or corks) of our ancestors to really judge them for their actions.Jim Bakernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-21450830861293171012013-07-24T05:49:14.525-07:002013-07-24T05:49:14.525-07:00My Grandfather came from Vermont to Round Valley a...My Grandfather came from Vermont to Round Valley area about 1895.My Grandmother came from Coulee city Washington to Woodland,Ca. about the same time. They got together and married in 1898.<br />My question has always been,what drew these people to this area?<br />Now my son has moved to eastern Washington pretty close to where my Grandmother was from!Ross Sherburnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924013241079711992.post-63787215194734194092013-07-22T15:59:03.139-07:002013-07-22T15:59:03.139-07:00thanks for the compliment of being called a story ...thanks for the compliment of being called a story teller. i've met a couple of distant relatives with the exact same name as mine and they both have an excuse why they don't know much about their family history. i tried to tell them that the ancestors came to me and want me to find out about their story.<br />the thing is, it's not just one family. all these different strands of ancestry are showing up and each has a story. so i'm learning about my viking side, my celtic side, my scotch irish side, my irish catholic side, my norman side, my german side, my alsace side, my vandal side, my roman side, my american indian side, my american pioneer side and so on and so on. each of these strands twists together to make the human i am becoming and so i no longer identify with only my current lifetime. i identify with many lifetimes some of them lived long ago and when i look at the world through these eyes of an elder. (sorry about using the title of your cousins book) but i think penny sees it the same way. i'm always happy to welcome the ones that show up and the stories that turn up and if i can connect them to the here and now, then i feel the ancestors smile in my heart.spyrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11574339441643025130noreply@blogger.com