@OneAddyAdds Sweet synchronicity, Addy. I've been following your work with due respect for some time. Your visit to my highland outpost made for a great afternoon of conversation and camaraderie. I'll be looking for you along the trail. Let the good times roll.
@UBKFrantisek @jarue369@kand3r121@WhiteLionBear @Swimpreneur I was baffled when I visited Fort Monroe including it's location. It is situated on a small, sandy islet just a few feet above sea level that is not much larger than the fort (about 2 miles around). Foundation? Transport of stone? Digging huge moat without pumps?
@_RDJ__2@WhiteLionBear @Swimpreneur @jarue369 If my memory serves, Pat's grandfather (or great-grandfather) moved to the Gulf Coast from Newfoundland. The elders still spoke the Basque language which is still used in Europe. Some refer to it as Europe's oldest language.
@kand3r121@jarue369@WhiteLionBear @Swimpreneur I found it odd that there has been, maybe still is, at least until recent years, a Masonic Lodge that had regular meetings for the last many decades inside Fort Monroe. I have a photo of their sign. the meeting room is near the Casement Museum.
@_RDJ__2@WhiteLionBear @Swimpreneur @jarue369 I'm not too familiar. I have a good friend in Florida who is proud of his Basque ancestry, part of the diaspora that settled on the Gulf of Mexico along the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi. Son of a son of fisherman. Pat left his shrimp boat to drive a Pepsi truck in 1995.
@_RDJ__2@WhiteLionBear @Swimpreneur @jarue369 One can only speculate. Some, like Fort Monroe, are enormous ...almost two miles in circumference. A complete village could thrive inside the walls. You can see my location photos here - https://t.co/U62DEUR1FH
@jarue369@kand3r121@WhiteLionBear @Swimpreneur No battles were ever fought at Fort Monroe, by sea or by land, from the year that it was claimed by the U.S. Army in 1819 through today. The so-called primary objective and rationale to have constructed it was its strategic location. Not even one spit ball fight in 200 years.
@kand3r121@WhiteLionBear @Swimpreneur @jarue369 That official story of that beautiful, stone "disused army fort" constructed on that site in only four years at the beginning of the 19th century should be an insult to anyone with common sense. Wheelbarrows, sailboats, shovels, horse-carts, wood scaffolding, ropes & ladders?
@WhiteLionBear @Swimpreneur @jarue369 Yes, you read that right. The magic act of disappearing the star-fort under the Statue of Liberty is way more astonishing than David Copperfield's live-TV trick in 1983. The Star-Fort has remained invisible from 1886 to this day.
@WhiteLionBear @Swimpreneur @jarue369 Our history has been erased from coast to coast. The five star-forts from Fort Monroe in Chesapeake Bay to the one of which the Statue of Liberty was perched ("...a disused army base on Bedloe's Island constructed between 1807 and 1811...") were already in place for centuries.
@kand3r121@jarue369 @Swimpreneur I just watched this ...so many similarities to my research regarding the huge stone structure, (Star)Fort Monroe, at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The official story on its construction (1821-1832) is laughable. Impossible in the days of only sailing ships and horse wagons.
[EXT.] (earlier this afternoon)
ME: (voice in my head) "OMG. I'm kneeling on one knee for this awesome deer-eye level POV ...and I didn't spook them."
MAMA DEER (to fawn): "He's kneeling! He thinks we're Goddesses!
@HousatonicITS McKinley was shot in 1901. My view of history informs that a life of personal sovereignty was largely unavailable long before then. USA's control vs. the individual was "tipped" from the start, especially in cities. "Things growing" were definitely not freedom and Natural Law.
@HousatonicITS Mark, it seems to me that the many of the founders of the republic launched their experiment as a stepping stone leading to a land of sovereign people. As "liberty" remained a concept, not an ideology, across the land and corrupted in the Capitol, the idea was dying/dead by 1812.
Here are my location photos of Star Fort Monroe in Chesapeake Bay. The official story of its construction has holes in it big enough to sail scow schooners through. How did these huge, perfectly quarried stones really get to this remote island in 1819?
https://t.co/U62DEUR1FH
@Buffalo_Dustin Mind you, the official story is that all of this stonework (Almost two miles in circumference) was quarried hundreds of miles away, shipped in small coastal schooners to this remote tidal sand island, constructed in 12 years and completed by 1834. ALL BEFORE STEAM ENGINES!
@Buffalo_Dustin I scouted Star Fort Monroe from inside-out earlier this year. Even engaged a Q and A correspondence with their resident historian. There are holes in the official story big enough to sail a scow schooner through. Here is a collection of my photos...
https://t.co/U62DEUR1FH