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blisters13

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We were taught about it when I was in grade school in the 1970's (it only focused on slavery, and did not include the argument about states' rights like today) and in high school (graduated 1986); my high school teenager is also calling b.s.

We are both public school-taught and from mid-income towns in so. cal.
 
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blisters13 said:
We were taught about it when I was in grade school in the 1970's (it only focused on slavery, and did not include the argument about states' rights like today) and in high school (graduated 1986); my high school teenager is also calling b.s.

We are both public school-taught and from mid-income towns in so. cal.
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Adrian A said:
I learned about the civil war. We also have a huge civil war reenactment here in fresno every year that we are proud of.
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The clown WAS bustin' chops. Should have known: there was something kind of squirrelly about that guy. He'd drink a morning beer with orange juice; called it his "Vitamin C".

Didn't know about the action in Fresno, I'll have to look that up.
 
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Register it as a historic vehicle as long as it is old enough. I pay over $600 a year for commercial fees as a non historic vehicle.
 
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Adrian A said:
I learned about the civil war. We also have a huge civil war reenactment here in fresno every year that we are proud of.
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loociddreemr said:
Central California here!
Right smack in the middle. Near the Modesto area.

By the way, we just had a Civil War reenactment last weekend right outside of town.
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Interesting that the re-enactments are so popular, because I learned that California avoided any hostilities (that I can tell) during the war.

More power to you out there, because it was war and so it was ugly.

Enactments here (Virginia and Maryland area), are all specific to particular engagements, just the way it is here.

Can't make the weekend but I'll follow it here. Thanks for filling me in on the Californiaction.
 
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John from North of San Franshakysisco checking in.

Co-Chairman of the 2016 Military Vehicle Preservation Association National Convention, August 11-13, 2016 in Pleasanton, CA. This would be a great place for a big SteelSoldiers.com meeting and display. Contact us early to make room for it.
 
IsaLandr

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Adrian A said:
I learned about the civil war. We also have a huge civil war reenactment here in fresno every year that we are proud of.
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Kearney Park! Glad to hear that's still going on. We used to have a good time out there when I were a lad. I escaped the PRK (People's Republik of Kalifornia) a wee bit over a decade ago, but I still think of Mountain Past as home. And my family still owns our old farm (now fallow) south of Fresno. Good times. I've still got a couple old trucks stored out that way that I really should clean up and restore.

Ours was a backwards old farm town with backwards old schools, but we learned about the real reasons for the War of Northern Oppression from grade school on.
 
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IsaLandr said:
Kearney Park! Glad to hear that's still going on. We used to have a good time out there when I were a lad. I escaped the PRK (People's Republik of Kalifornia) a wee bit over a decade ago, but I still think of Mountain Past as home. And my family still owns our old farm (now fallow) south of Fresno. Good times. I've still got a couple old trucks stored out that way that I really should clean up and restore.

Ours was a backwards old farm town with backwards old schools, but we learned about the real reasons for the War of Northern Oppression from grade school on.
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Any of the original barns (vanishing breed now), still standing?
 
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Any of the original barns (vanishing breed now), still standing?
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On our place, the old pump house has been refurbished into an insulated workshop, and we have an iron and tin shop building erected sometime in the ´50s that's still standing. We never had a real barn, we always used the big shop for everything.

There are some old barns around the area, but not too many. Mostly the dairy and small livestock breeders have them. Pretty much all the growers have switched to modern buildings. You see older farmhouses still standing here and there (and still in use), though.

Oddly enough, a couple of the properties where we are now in Washington have barns. They're not farms, just houses crammed in with other houses in suburban lots, but for some reason there are a couple barns to be found.
 
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IsaLandr said:
On our place, the old pump house has been refurbished into an insulated workshop, and we have an iron and tin shop building erected sometime in the ´50s that's still standing. We never had a real barn, we always used the big shop for everything.

There are some old barns around the area, but not too many. Mostly the dairy and small livestock breeders have them. Pretty much all the growers have switched to modern buildings. You see older farmhouses still standing here and there (and still in use), though.

Oddly enough, a couple of the properties where we are now in Washington have barns. They're not farms, just houses crammed in with other houses in suburban lots, but for some reason there are a couple barns to be found.
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Oh, man, some of those old Washington barns used to be sided in redwood!

Most all the wooden barns a dying breed now; everything changes.

Old Barn / New "Barn"
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It was bound to happen sometime.
San Diego county highway patrol. I drove away with a class c, in a historic registered truck, with a jeep rockcrawler on a towbar, which had expired tags. My plates are not mounted on the deuce, the Leo just gave me a fix it ticket for the tags on the jeep, and had me show him the plates for the deuce and just said make sure they get put on the truck.
I expected that to go a lot worse than it did.
 
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