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What Counts as Historic? | Perspectives on History | AHA
Claims to historic achievements are most often attributable to a kind of self-promotion that is as conventional as it is lamentable. But in this case, even allowing for a certain amount of media hyperbole and headline inflation, I still found myself asking: What should historians make of that word—“historic”?
Getting older kind of changes your outlook on things 🧓
A older kind of changes your outlook on things 🧓
I bought Big Red in October 2011, which is ten years ago. It seemed like 2021 was so far away at that time – I correctly figured ten years would be the best years for Red but then I could limp it along a few more years beyond then with repairs.
I figured out the cost to own Big Red over those ten years when I bought the truck knowing that 2021 would eventually come but as a 28 year old young professional, that seemed so far away. I mean only ten years earlier I was in High School. The truck was so shiny and new.
At this point though I don’t really care that much about owning a nice truck. My truck is still pretty nice, lifted with the camper shelf and everything else like the solar panel and CB radio but it’s nothing I really aspire to at this point. The experiences and memories matter more than the truck.
One thing I’ve noticed as a mid career professional is many people with good jobs and savings often get nice cars and trucks after they reach their first peak in earning potential in their early 30s. Then when that vehicle wears out as they reach their forties, they go for the basic car – the Honda Accord, the Kia or if they have children the Minivan.
Money goes elsewhere. People have babies and they buy houses. In my case, I’m really focused on saving to own my own land. Not a fancy house but acerage.
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Truck cap camping is perfect for me
Truck cap camping is perfect for the type of camping I prefer to do on the back roads 🏞 where I like to travel and camp.
I like to camp in quiet isolated areas where I can listen to music,🎶🎚 shoot guns 🔫 and fireworks🎆, have a big fire, burn whatever I want 🔥 without bothering others. Yet such sites are not always accessible with more than a truck.🚚
Maybe when I get older I’ll want something more like an truck camper but I have my doubts as I’m not big into fancy soft things.🛋 I prefer things that are easier to clean off the mud on and spending my time actually outdoors in the elements.🏕
William L. Moore – A forgotten advocate for civil rights and mental health issues – Canadian Military History
On 23 April 2010, a memorial plaque was unveiled outside the Greater Binghamton Transportation Center bus terminal in Binghamton, New York, in honour of a mostly forgotten civil rights and mental health advocate who was murdered on that day 47 years prior.
William Lewis Moore, born in Binghamton on 28 April 1927, was a postal worker and member of the Congress of Racial Equality, who achieved a level of notoriety for staging lone protests against racial segregation in an era when few white people supported such causes.
Moore also became an advocate for mental health issues, a result of having been institutionalized for a year and a half after suffering a mental breakdown while a graduate student at John Hopkins University in the early 1950s. He would ultimately be diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.
Moore staged lone protests by marching to capital cities on three separate occasions to hand-deliver letters he’d written denouncing the practice of racial segregation. His first march was to Annapolis, the state capital of Maryland, followed by a march to the White House to deliver a letter to President John F. Kennedy, on the same day that Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King was released from the jail in Binghamton following protests in that city.