Title : New Hampshire And Drilling Off-Shore -- October 17, 2018
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New Hampshire And Drilling Off-Shore -- October 17, 2018
In "fake news" today, a headline story is that the US will likely not press forward on demands that New Hampshire allow off-shore drilling. LOL.I'm reading a great, great book on metaphors and "recruitment" issues: The God Problem, Howard Bloom, c. 2016. It explains a lot, especially the power of metaphor. And that's all "off-shore drilling and New Hampshire" is -- a metaphor. And a fund-raising issue for the political parties.
But the great thing about these "fake stories" -- it makes a very difficult book like The God Problem more interesting, more timely, and more compelling.
In addition, it gives one a chance to look at history, US history in this case. Deep in the recesses of my mind, I vaguely remember stories how New Hampshire ended up with a coastline (and I also remember vaguely how the state of Maine came to be) -- and it is fortunate we have some really little states that came out of the 13 colonies -- it guarantees that North Dakota will always have two US senators -- just like California, and Texas. LOL. But I digress.
The New Hampshire seacoast -- a short coast with a long story, Yankee, July 8, 2016.
New Hampshire’s coast is only 13 miles long, the shortest of all 23 states bordering an ocean. Even if you toss in the Isles of Shoals, a group of islands about 8 miles off the Rye shore, half of which belong to New Hampshire, their combined 5 miles of oceanfront boosts New Hampshire’s lump sum only to 18 miles—a drop in the bucket compared with Maine’s 228 miles, Massa-chusetts’ 192 miles, or even Rhode Island’s 40. (And we’re talking just “general coastline” here. If you take these states’ many islands, bays, and so on into account, their “tidal shorelines” encompass hundreds more miles.) Yet, lest you imagine New Hampshire’s petite landfall as one contiguous sandy swath, I can attest that it’s not.My hunch is that before it's all over, the Native Americans will claim that coastline as their own, and someday they will get it back, along with the sacred burial grounds and sacred beaches:
Native Americans called this shoreline region “Winnicunnet,” meaning, “beautiful place of pines.” According to Dow, this coast was “an unbroken wilderness trodden only by savages” who “lay basking in the sun upon the sands, or launched their frail canoes and shot out fearlessly over the billows.” In 1974, archaeologists from the University of New Hampshire excavated a mile or so inland along the Hampton River and found bones, shells, tools, stone weapons, and clay pots—evidence that led them to surmise that this coast has been inhabited for at least 4,000 years.That article goes on and on and on ... and doesn't explain how a small, otherwise inconsequential colony got that coast line.
Let's press on.
This article explains it as well as any. Blame it on the English. Makes sense. Nothing to see here.
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