Canister!
Sorry for the lack of substantive posts lately; I’ve had other things I’ve been focusing on (above). Here are some small stories that don’t necessarily warrant posts of their own.
- The National Museum of Civil War Medicine will hold its annual meeting at Kennesaw on October 3-5, 2014. Looks like a great program.
- Sean Munger has a great post on how Columbus’ voyage of 1492 traces back directly to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans almost forty years previously.
- If you’ve seen the new AutoTrader Dukes of Hazzard video, you may notice that the General Lee doesn’t appear to have a Confederate flag on the roof anymore, even though they shot the car from low angles where it’s not so obvious.
- GQ has the strange story of Christopher Knight, “the last true hermit,” who disappeared into the Maine wilderness for 27 years — sort of.
- I guess James Montgomery-Ryan has forgotten that he promised to start killin’ Yankees weeks ago.
- Anti-tax guru Grover Norquist — the drown-the-government-in-the-bathtub-guy — went to Burning Man this weekend and had a blast, calling it an example of “a bunch of people who think the government doesn’t need to be here. . . [it’s] Hayekian spontaneous order.” Except for the fact that the whole thing is held on federal lands and licensed by Cliven Bundy’s friends at the BLM.
- Teenagers in New York caught red-handed vandalizing a CW monument.
- They haven’t caught the clowns yet who tagged the J.E.B. Stuart monument in Richmond Sunday night.
- Luca Iaconi-Stewart is building an insanely-detailed mdoel of an Air India Boeing 777 out of manilla file folders.
- Over at The Bitter Soutnerner, writer Fletcher Moore and photographer Brett Falcon set out to retrace Confederate General Hardee’s attempt to flank Sherman’s army outside of Atlanta.
- At True Blue Federalist, Chris Shelley has three great posts exploring Lincoln’s views on race. Definitely worth your time.
- There’s increasing evidence that fatty, sugary, processed foods are not only bad for you physically, but mentally, too.
- I’m looking forward to Eric Wittenberg’s upcoming book, The Devil’s to Pay, on John Buford at Gettysburg.
Got any more? Put ’em in the comments.
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Added: A little more from Mr. Montgomery-Ryan:
“Darkies.” Charming.
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Dead Confederates, A Civil War Era Blog 
Thanks particularly for the link to Hardee’s march to outflank Sherman at Atlanta.
The photos are also so interesting one wishes there were more of them.
The final paragraph is chilling in the same way learning the final fate of Columbia and Richmond are when the CSA falls.
Gone With the Wind Hardee’s story is not.
Love, C.