Little known facts

First of all, I have to admit something. When I am working in the barn, I often talk to myself. And I’m not talking little muttered comments, I’m talking full-blown, ranting lectures, long-winded stories, and suchlike. And I talk back. Sometimes the dialog turns into an all-out argument. Which is all very, very, very weird, I know.

Yesterday I was cleaning stalls, and to pass the time I decided to ruminate on what period of history I like best. It turned into a rant on how much “I hate the Civil War!”

Actually, this is what I decided. I don’t so much hate the Civil War as I simply could not care less about it. The Civil War bores me to tears. And that includes Reconstruction and any history that feels compelled to use the word “antebellum” to describe itself. Yawn.

I don’t do the Civil War…I have people to do that. I know a good number of people who are simply fascinated by it, and that is just in my own family. I leave them to “do” the Civil War so I can blithely go on ignoring the entire second half of the 19th century.

If I had my choice, I would stick mostly with the years between 1750 and 1843. I choose those years because I am interested in the French & Indian War and a major turning point for me would be the year the Wyandots left Ohio, 1843. That’s almost a century of really interesting history.