tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post1401509470515030795..comments2023-10-30T10:45:45.193+01:00Comments on Sort of San Francisco Fan Club: Smile, when you say that, pardFram Actualhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-78738622092560290952015-05-21T01:33:04.022+02:002015-05-21T01:33:04.022+02:00Student, yes; scholar, no.
To go pedantic on you...Student, yes; scholar, no. <br /><br />To go pedantic on you, CiL, I think a "scholar" must advance beliefs and arguments among groups or in institutional settings. That is what a true and actual "historian" does. I am too much of a "lone ranger" and use too much of a "shotgun approach" to validate my points, which I only attempt to do among friends who have similar interests .... and, once in a while, mention my thoughts in a post, as I did here. To put it another way, I do not care how fast anyone else can run a mile; I only care about how fast I can do it and want to continuously improve my own time until I am no longer capable of improving it.<br /><br />Thank you, CiL. I am glad to see you here and pleased you left a comment. Posts like this one have a tendency to frighten people away, I think.Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-1408993001168275402015-05-20T21:51:07.514+02:002015-05-20T21:51:07.514+02:00Fascinating post. Indeed you are a student, a scho...Fascinating post. Indeed you are a student, a scholar, I would say, not a groupie at all. You are privileged to have made that pilgrimage, even if part of it was figuratively. Beautiful post. Thanks.<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-22090919389447096122015-05-17T23:33:05.360+02:002015-05-17T23:33:05.360+02:00The clarity and the detail of the photography from...The clarity and the detail of the photography from this era is truly amazing, Smareis. The process was complicated, but the significant size of the "plate negatives" made it possible to create fantastic photographs, especially when working with panoramic landscapes. I have an old (not Civil War old) Speed Graphic which uses four- by five-inch negatives that I "play" with from time to time, and the quality of the photographs it produces is fantastic: Partly the excellence of the lens, partly the size of the negatives.<br /><br />The history of the settlement of the United States has many fascinating facets. One minute you can be learning about absolute bravery among early settlers and the next minute you can be learning about absolute cruelty in the warfare between the indigenous Native Americans and the mostly-European new arrivals. While most among the George Custer "officer clan" were first-rate, professional soldiers who lived and died the way they wanted and expected, many of the ordinary, enlisted troopers in the Seventh Cavalry were recent immigrants and there only because the army was the "best job" they could find.<br /><br />I have a "nice" library of books related to the Plains Indian Wars, and a sizeable portion of them center on the Custer element. Several of the books are quite detailed about what it was like to be a frontier soldier. Having a bit of military experience myself makes the picture more complete; some things never change for and among soldiers, no matter if you were one a millennium ago or a few years ago.<br /> <br />There is something about history that enraptures me, and in so many ways it seems to me I can reach out and be in the midst of moments now gone -- see and feel the people who were alive and real only a few breaths into the past.<br /><br />I did look at five or six YouTube videos regarding the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. I had not found any I really liked before I ran out of time and decided to use the one I did. The photographs were too repetitious, I thought, but served the purpose of providing a sense of what it is like at the battlefield now.<br /><br />I am glad you are back on the blogs, Smareis, glad you visited me today, glad you wrote a comment for me and glad you will be publishing a new post yourself in the near future. Thank you, especially, for the smiles.Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-53638338825903569632015-05-17T19:44:57.481+02:002015-05-17T19:44:57.481+02:00Olá Fram,
Muito boa à fotografia, pela época esta...Olá Fram, <br />Muito boa à fotografia, pela época esta bem nítida.<br />Você deve ter sido um grande soldado e gostava muito do seu trabalho. Por isso gosta tanto de rifles e revólveres tem muito haver com tua história, teu passado.<br />Essas trilhas pioneiras devem ter sido fascinantes mesmo.<br />A guerra é muito triste, sem contar com o sofrimento que os soldados passam pra defender seu País. A família é a que mais sofrem. Muitos soldados dão suas vidas e nem tem o reconhecimento devido. Eles são muitos corajosos, merece ser lembrado todos os dias. <br />O vídeo contém muitas imagens curiosas. Excelente registro.<br />Gostei muito da sua postagem. Você constrói sempre seus textos com muita inteligência e sabedoria.<br /><br />Fram eu ando um pouco ausente, desculpa- me pela ausência por aqui. Eu vou atualizar meu blog na próxima semana, ou seja, depois do dia 20. Gostei de ver que foi lá no blog, em busca de sol, me tirou alguns sorrisos. Obrigada!<br /><br />Uma ótima semana!<br />Até breve Fram!<br />Sorrisos enviados.<br />Smareishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04480560906841229369noreply@blogger.com