Green Acre 1912, again

Month, Day: 179, Questions, Loftiness (Independence)  

Last of Questions, which is the science month, means that Honour is next up. This is both a look back and forward, as the new year (2023) looms. 

In August of 2015, we did a post using photos from a Green Acre, ME visit by lots of folks to see the Master. There are many in the photo that we know of and want to research further. For instance, the Ober family was involved with the property and were friends of the family. There was an index made of the persons there. Some were not known. A few children were shown, one of whom is the grandmother of known persons. 

One motivation for this work is that ME was part of MA until the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which was a couple of hundred years ago. Too, at that point, the western migrations were just beginning. From our research, New England's long reach is there throughout what we call the frontier century. Besides that commemoration, we have the 250th of the Revolution and many families there supported the patriot cause which forced the split from the Crown's overview. 

And, going back further, many of these families are descendants of original colonists. We mentioned Lunt's ancestry, but some of the other names are Ober, Woodbury, Thompson, Spinney, Russell, Pease, Morse, Brewster, and others. Massachusetts has had two 400ths so far: Plymouth (2020) and Weymouth (2022). Next year, Gloucester (2023) will recognize their heritage which involves an effort to establish agriculture and fishery entities under the auspices of the Dorchester Company. Of note is that a lot of the leadership came from the Cambridge side of things. 

From a cultural sense, what happened in the New World has parallels with what happened worldwide over more than a century where we have symmetry now using 1844 as the pivot. Those are studies that need to be identified, described and supported over the next few decades, especially given the newest perturbations that come via the introduction of complexity via computational frameworks going wild. 

This is introductory. See the original post for the photo links and the list of attendees. To make this interesting, at the same time, we will be looking at the unfolding of modern mathematics over the same timeframe. And, one can use Harvard (400th coming up) and its mathematical history (especially, using the Peirce family) for comparative purposes. 

Remarks: 12/20/2022

12/20/2022 --