State and Local Fiddling With Election Operations

 

Check out the attached chart addressing ID checks. Very interesting, many of the below cited requirements are known to be true, and I can't certify all are 100% accurate (but the chart's point is so very true). The U.S. Constitution leaves most of the specific general election day mandates regarding operation, policy, and procedures to the individual states (otherwise stated more correctly, election law, policies, and administration are set by the individual state legislatures). This U.S. Constitutional provision seems to be a problem full of opportunities for corrupt and unfair federal general elections. Changes in federal general election policy and administration are NOT the responsibility of any court or any of the politically-selected-appointed local/state election board(s) -- unless the U.S. Constitution is first suspended. Change authority in established and historical election operations rests exclusively with the individual state legislatures – PERIOD (although some states may have delegated this election change authority -- such delegated election change authority is itself likely unconstitutional). A U.S. Constitutional amendment proposal to make general election operations and procedures more consistent among the states would almost certainly fail since the Democrat controlled states would likely disapprove. Many state leaders like this election day policy constitutional power as granted to the individual states where general election policy, rules, and procedures can be manipulated on the fly to favor a Big-D election political outcome.

P.S. I would add purchasing a can of spray paint... this perhaps local or state mandated ID check at least typically true in many New York State general stores.   dj

Herkimer County Now Past Peak On Halloween Eve

A Favored Leaf-Peeping Tree
 

The later October winds and rains experienced in the couple of days before Halloween really did a final wipe-out on much of the local Autumn 2023 beauty, many of our trees now without their varied fall colored leaves.  Just a few of our more hearty and stubborn Oak trees still refusing to succumb to those recent stiff winds, rain, snow, ice, and graupel (soft pellets) experinced yesterday.  As Ma Nature ushers in November, a sturdy few trees won't let their fine colored leaves fly. 

Another All Hallow's Eve image:

Northeast View - some more hearty trees 

       

Pre-Memorial Day Burial Ground Visits To Install Revolutionary War Veteran Grave Markers And Earned American Flags On The Graves Of Five Connecticut Rebellion Heros.

Our Revolutionary Stanton Men Of Connecticut

JULY 2023 UPDATE:

Southeast Connecticut cemetery visits in June 2023 revealed the various Stanton Family Revolutionary War Veteran graves remain in good shape, and each grave had a fresh Memorial American Flag installed.  Many thanks to the unknown and caring Connecticut residents who are actively tending our ancestor's graves. 

   

Metal Revolutionary War Veteran Grave Markers and American Flags were installed in ten inches of concrete during this mid-May 2021 Southeastern Connecticut trip to Groton, New London, Ledyard, North Stonington, and Griswold Connecticut to visit a few older burial grounds.  Each man introduced in this post is a distant paternal cousin and a Revolutionary War Veteran.  The cousin relationships apply to my siblings and to my paternal 1st cousins as cited in the following individual brief biographies.  Other interested family genealogists need to calculate their own personal cousin relationships to these Revolutionary War Veterans.    

U.S. Army Veteran Captain Ebenezer Stanton is a Revolutionary War Veteran serving over three years of active duty as a  junior officer in Captain Amos Stanton's 6th Company of the 2nd Additional Infantry Regiment of the Connecticut Line, under Commanding Officer Colonel Henry Sherburne. Ebenezer later served in the trusted staff positions of Regimental Quartermaster and then as Regimental Paymaster.  Following his three-year tour of Army active duty, Ebenezer Stanton was named Master and Commander of the privateer vessel COUNT de GRASSE in May 1782, a schooner with a crew of about 30 men operating mainly on Long Island Sound.  Official records show that Captain Ebenezer Stanton and his crew captured several small craft and cargo from Yankee wartime profiteers doing business and selling supplies to the British enemy.     

In 1780, General George Washington conducted a massive military reorganization of the patriot army he commanded, and one element of this reorganization was to combine the 2nd Regiment of Connecticut Line with an existing Rhode Island Regiment.  The 2nd Infantry Regiment of Connecticut Line was formally disestablished effective 1 Jan 1781.  All or most of the regiment's officer corps were allowed to resign their commission during 1780, Ebenezer's resignation was effective in April 1780.             

Following the USA victory, Captain Ebenezer Stanton owned and operated an ocean-going trading ship as Master and Commander, a ship that engaged in Mediterranean Trading.  This earns him the Captaincy prefix he used in business and personal communication and as inscribed on his gravestone as found in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT.

Captain Ebenezer Stanton is a paternal 3rd cousin-8xRemoved, and a Great-Great-Grandson of the Stanton Family colonial progenitor Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677, in Stonington, CT).

Captain Ebenezer Stanton's beloved wife Mary "Molly" (Smith) Stanton, the daughter of Colonel Oliver Smith and Mrs. Mary Noyes (Denison) Smith, she is presented in a previous post that some genealogist readers will find interesting.  Click HERE to learn things about wife Mary.    

The memorial gravestones of Colonel Oliver Smith and his lovely wife Mrs. Mary Noyes (Denison) Smith are found in Smith Lake Cemetery, Town of Groton, CT (aka Poquonock Bridge).  OBTW, the wives of Revolutionary military warriors are also the rebellion heroes who single-handedly managed the home and family left behind while their men went to war. Colonel Smith was initially a Captain and the commanding officer of a company of Stonington Militiamen when a British ship (the frigate HMS Rose) cannoned the small seaport community of Stonington, Connecticut.  The Rose attack is reported to have caused little damage to Stonington properties, almost equivalent to what is today called a drive-by shooting.  The 20-gun frigate HMS Rose was likely en route to harass the larger seaports of Newport and Boston. 

In July 1776, Connecticut General Assembly appoints Oliver Smith Lt Colonel and commanding officer of the 8th Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Foot (aka Infantry) in New London County. He is advanced to full colonel grade later in the rebellion. Many pay records of the nine companies assigned to the 8th Regiment of the State of Connecticut Militia, signed by COL Oliver Smith, stand testament to his Revolutionary War command of over 500 Southeast Connecticut Militiamen.  Early in the Revolution, Colonel Smith is reportedly an aide to General George Washington and was with General Washington for a time at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777/78.   

Colonel Oliver Smith is a paternal 2nd cousin-7xRemoved and a Great-Great Grandson of Captain George Denison Sr. (d.1694 in Hartford).  Another cousin-relationship exists via his maternal grandmother Ms. Mary Stanton (d.1724), where via this link Oliver is a Great-Great Grandson of Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677).        

Captain Amos Stanton recieves a new earned bronze Revolutionary War Veteran Grave Marker.  Amos' first commitment to the fledgling rebellion is documented by early 1776 service as a 2nd Lieutenant of Marines aboard the Connecticut State Navy's Row Galley SHARK, a vessel under the command of Captain Theophilus "Theo" Stanton (Theo is Amos' paternal 1st cousin 1xR).  In July 1776, SHARK and two sister Connecticut Navy Row Galley vessels WHITING and CRANE were ordered to the Hudson River (then referred to as "The North River").  In late fall 1776, the Galley SHARK was moved further up river where the crew was apparently relieved and the vessel placed under the care of ship's carpenter Fanning.  In Spring 1777 SHARK was transferred to the Continental Army.  SHARK was not captured by British forces or burned by her crew to prevent capture as some reports speculate.  NOTE: new information suggests that SHARK escaped the three early October 1776 Lower Hudson River battles; whereas, her two sister vessels Connecticut Navy row galley WHITING was evidently burned and row galley CRANE was captured by British Forces after her crew intentionally ran aground and abandoned her.

Early in 1777, Amos was awarded an active-duty Connecticut Line Lieutenant's commission with the U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Connecticut Line, a regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Sherburne.  SHARK commanding officer Captain Theophilus Stanton's letter of recommendation to Colonel Sherburne cites Amos' competence with military guns and munitions and was no doubt somewhat responsible for Colonel Sherbunre's appointment.  In late 1777 Amos was awarded a Connecticut Line captaincy and assigned as company commander of the 6th Company within Colonel Sherburne's Connecticut Line Infantry Regiment.  Official records show Company Commander Captain Stanton detailed as "On Command" -- a term then used to indicate detached duty from the regiment, perhaps in performance of special trust assignments.  Records show Captain Amos Stanton served on several courts-martial boards.  Captain Amos Stanton resigned his U.S. Army Connecticut Line military commission in April 1780.  All or most officers under Colonel Sherburne's command resigned their commissions in this mid-1780 period, these and many other U.S. Army resignations are part of a total military reorganization plan authorized by General George Washington. Strong evidence suggests that General Washington's rebel army became unmanageable in the later rebellion years, holding too many Chiefs (officers) and not enough Indians (enlisted men -- aka, the cannon fodder) to carry on an effective fight against the British forces. 

Captain Amos Stanton was killed in action on 6 Sep 1781 in defense of Fort Griswold, Groton, Connecticut in what is now called the Revolutionary War Battle of Groton Heights.  Among over one hundred other local men, Amos Stanton had answered an alarm issued by area commander Colonel William Ledyard for local militiamen to assist in the defense of Fort Griswold.   Captain Amos Stanton's remains were interred at Stanton Cemetery in the Town of Groton, on the property then owned by the Stanton Family.  The burying ground is just a few short miles north of Fort Griswold, this land is now part of the Town of Ledyard since Ledyard was formed from Groton Township lands in the mid-1820s.

Captain Amos Stanton is a paternal 3rd cousin-8xRemoved, and a Great-Great Grandson of the Stanton Family colonial progenitor Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677, in Stonington, CT)     

Footnote: Seems obvious that Captain Amos Stanton should be provided a new federally-supplied memorial gravestone since his present gravestone is both broken and unreadable.  A new suitable federally-furnished gravestone is his earned right.   

Aged 36 years Lieutenant Enoch Stanton and his brother aged 25 years Sergeant Daniel Stanton, were both Killed In Action at Fort Griswold during the Revolutionary War Battle of Groton Heights.  The two Stanton brothers are buried side-by-side at the rural Stanton-Hull Cemetery, Wheeler Road, North Stonington, Connecticut.  This well-kept rural burial ground is about six miles by the best route from where they fell on that early day in September 1781 at Fort Griswold, Groton, Connecticut.

Gravestone Inscription:

"Here Inter'd are the bodies of two brothers Sons of Capt Phineas Stanton and Elizabeth his wife who fell with many of their friends on Sept 6th, 1781 while manfully fighting for the liberty of their Country and defense of Fort Griswold. The assailants were commanded by that most despicable patricide, Benedict Arnold."  

Note: While it is true that British General Benedict Arnold was in overall command of this early September 1781 New London County operation, but to be historically correct, the turn-coat Arnold was never present or in a direct leadership role on the Groton side of the Thames River or at Fort Griswold.  General Arnold was present on the New London side of the Thames River that September day, taking an active leadership role in the capture of Fort Trumbull and in the cowardly unfortunate burning of many City of New London properties. 

The heroes Lieutenant Enoch Stanton and his younger brother Sergeant Daniel Stanton are paternal 3rd cousins-8xRemoved, and the Great-Great Grandsons of the Stanton Family colonial progenitor Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677, in Stonington, CT)    

Ensign Nathan Stanton is thought to be the father of Captain Ebenezer Stanton (d.1811) as cited in the first section of this post.  Official Revolutionary War documentation is found supporting Nathan's gravestone inscription that he is a Revolutionary Soldier and that this Ensign Nathan Stanton in 1776  was assigned as a junior officer serving in the company commanded by Captain William Stanton, 8th Infantry Regiment of the State of Connecticut Militia (Colonel Oliver Smith's New London County, Connecticut Militia Regiment).  Further, we know from the official record that the 8th Infantry of Connecticut Militia was in New York State to support the October 1776 rebellion Battle of White Plains, New York State.  The White Plains battle is strongly significant since it was essentially the delaying action that allowed General George Washington and his rebel army to escape British forces into Pennsylvania.    

No dates are inscribed on Ensign Nathan Stanton's memorial, such dates would naturally be of certain assistance with a more positive ID, but gravestone inscriptions are known to be secondary genealogical references at best.  However, the preponderance of evidence tends to suggest this is the grave of Nathan Stanton (1732-1786), the father of the aforementioned Captain Ebenezer Stanton.  Also, we are currently unable to find the internment site of Ensign Nathan Stanton's wife Mrs. Elizabeth Abigail (Billings) Stanton, who is thought to have passed away in about 1761 (predeceasing Nathan by nearly 25-years).  Elizabeth was likely buried in a presently unknown Billings Family plot near Stonington, Connecticut.  We think that Nathan never remarried; however, this is an unproven opinion. Circumstances regarding why Nathan is not interred near to his beloved wife Elizabeth are unknown. 

Ensign Nathan Stanton is not found in his military unit's official pay records in 1780, this suggests he resigned his commission perhaps due to sickness or advancing age (no formal documents are found to support his military discharge).  A junior grade company officer's military responsibilities are certainly stressful and demanding at times, where a younger man would be better suited. No metal grave marker was installed on Ensign Nathan Stanton's grave at Rixtown Cemetery, Griswold, CT until more identification proofs become available; however, a fresh American Flag was installed on this gravesite in the Town of Griswold. Hopefully, additional research and discovery prove this Ensign Nathan Stanton is the late father of Captain Ebenezer Stanton (d.1811, New London, CT).  Nathan will then be claimed as our distant 2nd Cousin-9xRemoved -- and the Great-Grandson of colonial progenitor Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677).     

         

On GETTYSBURG -- The Turner Movie

The four-hour+ Turner classic movie GETTYSBURG was viewed again two days ago.  In the late afternoon that day July 2, 1863, Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's 20th Maine Regiment made their successful downhill bayonet charge off Little Roundtop just outside Gettysburg, PA.  The 20th Maine's exploits that day crushed a nearly successful left flank attack by rebel army units on the Union line.  And it was on this day July 4, 1863, that Union Commanding General George Meade allowed the rebel troops under Confederated States of America (CSA) General Robert E. Lee to complete their escape across the Potomac River back into the safety of their home ground in Virginia.  A supermajority of folks who study the American Civil War perhaps agree that General U.S. Grant would have followed the retreating rebel forces to re-engage them -- and perhaps ending that bloodiest of all American wars then in that hot summer of 1863.  How many thousands of casualties would General Grant's leadership have saved?         

General Robert E. Lee in no way accepted the premise that the Confederate Rebellion was lost following those bloody first three days in July 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- one hundred and sixty years past.  More Civil War causalities occurred following the Battle of Gettysburg than were suffered before this American Civil War fight.  General Lee does not appear to be a broken man as he writes this August 1863 letter from Richmond to his second-in-command top general and his most trusted  right-hand man Lieutenant General James Longstreet:

"GENERAL, I have wished for several days past to return to the army, but have been detained by the President. He will not listen to my proposition to leave to-morrow. I hope you will use every exertion to prepare the army for offensive operations, and improve the condition of our men and animals. I can see nothing better to be done than to endeavor to bring General Meade out and use our efforts to crush his army while in its present condition."

Very respectfully and truly yours,

R. E. LEE
General.

The Questionable Inquiry On U.S. Navy Disclosure

 

Earlier this week June 18, 2023, my cousin Ron asked me about the fate of the deep submergence submarine Titan. My 5-word reply – ...they are dead or lost. Turns out the US Navy strongly suspected the Titan was lost early Sunday, June 18th – and reported this finding in classified messages to top brass and the on-scene Titan search commander. One of CNN's ace gray-haired reporters was seen yesterday seriously asking why it took so long for the US Navy to publicly release their opinion that Titan likely imploded just a couple hours into its descent on the wreck of Titanic.

As background, do a valuable read of the Wikipedia Internet post describing SOSUS. From what I've heard and read from non-military sources, this Wikipedia article seems fairly accurate.

Click HERE to check out the article. 

Thanks to the discovery a few decades past that a cowardly retired US Navy Officer John Walker (died 2014) and his family of spies, the secrets of SOSUS were accurately disclosed and confirmed over time to the USSR. So the valuable classified SOSUS system as then configured in the 1960s+ was considered less useful following the Walker spy-network treason. And with the end of the Cold War (OBTW Washington and the world, the Cold War has never ended), SOSUS information was thought less valuable to military strategic planners... perhaps even unnecessary to some of these star-laden wiz-kids. But who among us believes there is not now an operational SOSUS replacement system (some form of SOSUS upgrade) that provides USA defense managers with accurate data on the position of adversarial submarines. And to that self-important gray-haired CNN reporter – NOW HEAR THIS -- whatever it is that now provides the USA with submarine intelligence is now likely highly classified. Bottom line – it is obvious to a most casual observer that it is this system or sound analysis method(s) that heard the Titan implode. Whatever hardware and software, or physical/virtual assets are employed to discover and evaluate submarine activity at sea is none of the general population's business -- and the ethically deprived inquiry by a CNN "alleged reporter" is dangerously inappropriate.  It seems equally obvious that an average 4th-grade science class will easily understand why the secrecy of such a SONAR system is important in securing the safety and security of the US people.

The decision to release the US Navy's classified position regarding a likely Titan "catastrophic implosion" rose to the level of the Executive Office of the POTUS -- (or hopefully, this better be true!). 

Note: The Titan image inserted at the top of this post is sourced from multiple Google Internet news publications and is likely the public-domain property of the OceanGate firm.

Two first Cousins, Combat Wounded WWI Veterans

The Covert brothers were private soldiers enlisted in June 1917 at the Mohawk Armory, New York State National Guard, Company M, 107th Infantry Regiment, a unit federalized later in 1917 for the duration of WWI as part of the U.S. First Army.  The European Theater battles their regiment engaged in include, but are not limited to, East Paperinghe, Dickenbusch, Bellicourt, and The Hindenburg Line. Charles served in overseas combat duty from May 9, 1918, through December 26, 1918, he was severely wounded in action on October 30, 1918, with a head injury. Charles was declared 40% disabled when Honorably Discharged on February 17, 1919, although Charles did spend the last half of his life in treatment at various VA hospitals. Charles's older brother George served in overseas combat duty from May 9, 1918, through March 9, 1919, he was exposed to gas attacks of an undisclosed nature on September 29, 1918, and was slightly wounded in action on October 5, 1918. He was Honorably Discharged from the Army on April 2, 1919, allegedly with 0% disability. But age 36 George died at home in October 1930 from undisclosed causes. Who can suggest his untimely death was not at least somewhat service-connected.

The graves of these two military combat veterans were found at Oak Hill Cemetery, Herkimer, New York, each without American Flags in mid-May 2023. Sadly, military veteran graves lacking an American Flag are a highly unacceptable but not uncommon sight before Memorial Day in these parts -- all it simply takes is a walk through the gravestones in most cemeteries to find them.  The two brothers Covert, both World War I combat wounded veterans are my maternal first cousins, one generation senior (aka 1xRemoved). Private First Class George Earl Covert and Private Charles Ernest Covert finally got their metallic WWI Grave Marker/Flag Holders embedded in a concrete base with fresh-earned American Flags as installed a few days ago.  Thank you for your honorable military service.  Rest In Peace.

 

The Gravesite Of George E. Covert

The Gravesite Of Charles E. Covert 

A Few Readers Might Care About This DNA Test

 

Still proudly 100% European American!  

The results are in dated 6 April 2023 for my third autosomal DNA test with Family Tree DNA (FTDNA).  This test was done to hopefully help with a better definition of where our maternal Great-Great Grandma Caroline (Keirnan) Anderson came from, and it seems Caroline's Irish origins remain possible, but now less probable.  What this new test does is -- fails to disprove Caroline's Irish roots.  But not really surprised to find the new FTDNA results are rather similar to my two other tests done by AncestryDNA and 23andMe DNA.  While each testing firm's DNA origin results are calculated differently under proprietary algorithms, it seems their basic calculation formula is highly similar.  So unfortunately the new test does not help very much with the origin of Grandma Caroline.  Here are the new estimated FTDNA results:

 

The FTDNA "myOrigins" detailed source map:

Note the FTDNA "England, Wales,  and Scotland" totaling an estimated 57% of our origin DNA includes Northeast Ireland, all of Northwestern France, and most of Western Belgium and the Netherlands. This is obviously a different way to present essentially very similar DNA estimates.  Click HERE  to review our two previously presented DNA estimates as calculated by AncestryDNA and 23andMe. 

Two Days Of Fighting -- 23,746 Estimated Casualties

Some folks share a historical interest in U.S. military battles.  The major American Civil War Battles Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg are a personal focus since several ancestors were troops doing the Union fighting.  The Battle of Shiloh was known but this struggle was never seriously studied. Below is a summary of some interesting facts presented by the American Battlefield Trust.  These accepted battle facts cause a hollow feeling in the gut -- kind of interesting that Shiloh is declared a union victory when 13,000+ of the official estimated 23,746 casualties are union troops.

A typical example of Civil War Battle causality is the case of our German-born paternal Great-Great Grandfather Corporal William Moegling, late of Company B, 97th Infantry Regiment of New York State Volunteers.  William was with his unit during the major battles of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.  He remains assigned to his regiment in December 1862 at Fredericksburg but was probably then convalescing at a unit field hospital near Belle Plain Landing, Virginia. In early 1863 William was Discharged For Disability from the military. Official records show he suffered a gunshot wound to the right leg during the early morning hours of 17 September 1862 at The Battle of Antietam.  William died at his adopted Utica, New York home in 1869, probably due at least in part to the negative effects of his various Civil War service-connected injuries.  An unknown number of soldiers on both sides of the Civil War died many months and/or years following their military service injuries -- and these men (and some women) were never counted among the official Civil War casualties. 

A union victory at Shiloh! Well, technically true I guess, but when significantly more union troops -- nearly 2,500 more union causalities are lost at Shiloh -- it does cause a rational person to question this "victory."  Any student of the American Civil War knows the projected body count assessment was not a factor in General U.S. Grant's Army tactical planning.  Note: some living highly credentialed statisticians place the likely number of Shiloh battle casualties at more like 27,500+.  These increased casualty numbers are likely valid for all the century-and-a-half-old battle causality calculations experienced during the Civil War.  The generally accepted number is 620,000 total Civil War Union and Rebel army casualties; whereas, the actual causality number may be closer to 850,000.

A Battle of Shiloh summary as copied from the American Battlefield Trust website follows:

Hardin County, Tennessee, April 6 - 7, 1862

The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior. The carnage was unprecedented, with the human toll being the greatest of any war on the American continent up to that date.

How the battle ended:

A Union victory. The South’s defeat at Shiloh ended the Confederacy’s hopes of blocking the Union's advance into Mississippi and doomed the Confederate military initiative in the West. With the loss of their commander, General Albert Sidney Johnston, in battle, Confederate morale plummeted.

Battle in context:

After Major General Ulysses S. Grant's Union victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862, Confederate General Johnston withdrew from Kentucky and left much of the western and middle of Tennessee to the Federals. This permitted General Grant to push his troops toward Corinth, Mississippi, the strategic intersection of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and the Memphis and Charleston Railroad and a vital troop and supply conduit for the South. Alerted to the Union army’s position, General Johnston intercepted the Federal troops twenty miles northeast of Corinth at Pittsburg Landing. The encounter proved devastating — not only for its tactical failure but for the extreme number of casualties. After the Battle of Shiloh, both sides realized the magnitude of the conflict, which would be longer and bloodier than they could have imagined.

Click HERE to read more battle details including battlefield maps, see the American Battlefield Trust website.  

Cups Amidst Green Lands

  "Cups Amidst Green Lands"

What beckons us now regarding this game?

Small cups are set out on green fields to be tamed.

Dimpled spheres are oft found so dicey to sink,

wee sum is the goal that does not awful stink.

Today we shall conquer this rolling green land,

by swinging thin sticks as grasped in both hands.

Offers solid fine proof to this gallant four-some,

that our links-gaming skills are not now succumbed.

Play thirty-six holes 'tis a happy day's plan!

Found too many moments in this wretched beach sand.

Eighteen is enough!  Now in water, then woods,

ball slicing and hooking caused scoring not good.

What drives these old Duffers? Sad tallies are great!

On those frequent stout journeys to self-flagellate.

High grass and tough carpet cause grueling concerns,

but in a couple short hours we shall plan our return.

What is it that calls us regarding this game?

Woods, waters, and weather make fit men less sane.

Exercise, fellowship, or try out your new toys?

Rewards at Nineteenth! And good play with fond boys.

A golf poem by ex-player DJ Paul

Original version publication date, March 10, 2010

as "Holes Amid Green Fields" 

Edited, enhanced, and re-published by author, March 27, 2023

with the new title "Cups Amidst Green Lands"

Not copyrighted, unaltered free use is granted (without additional permission) to volunteer, non-profit, or not-for-profit educational and/or charitable activity. 

Easy To Play "Things Have Changed" - by Bob Dylan

 

Another fine production by master songwriter, singer, and Nobel laureate Bob Dylan, with credits cited at the bottom of page 3 image.  Free use as compiled here for the non-profit, not-for-profit educational use of amateur and/or beginner guitar and baritone ukulele artists for their practice, their continued learning, and their strumming pleasure.   

To sing and/or play along with Dylan on YouTube, click HERE 

Bob Dylan's song "Things Have Changed" was initially written specifically for inclusion in the outstanding Curtis Hanson film "Wonder Boys" -- starring the film's fine actor Michael Douglas.  The film seems destined to become a future classic.  Michael Chabon's highly praised novel by the same name "Wonder Boys" was skillfully adapted in the screenplay by Steve Kloves.  Director Hanson's film commentary notes with great pleasure that Bob Dylan expressed interest in writing a masterful film-based song.  Bob Dylan also subsequently released a strongly humorous associated video wherein he sings his fine song while artfully employing selected "Wonder Boys" film clips that firmly enhance his final video project. 

Critics may note a few changed words here and there and revisions in three lines done by DJ Paul as published here in Dylan's song "Things Have Changed" - Verse 3 line 8, and Verse 4 lines 6 and 7, revisions believed to more faithfully communicate the accurate presentations in both Chabon's novel and Hanson's film.  Dylan's original written verse 4, lines 6 and 7 are reported here as follows:

Verse 3:

          Line 8 - Puttin' her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street

Verse 4:

Line 6 - I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me

Line 7 - Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake

Writer D. Paul's verses 3 and 4 revisions are respectfully tendered as follows:

Verse 3:

          Line 8 - Puttin' her on ah scooter and pushin' her down the street

Verse 4:

Line 6 - I love a married woman who truly appeals to me

Line 7 - It's a tense match game, with very high stakes