Thanks Ruth.

-jc
On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 09:21  AM, Ruth Barton wrote:

> Thanks Ken,  I knew I could count on somebody on here to answer.  Do I
> understand that if I go to CT and get on  a ferry I can get to where
> you
> are without going to NYC?  Neat-O!!!!
>
> When I got your message there was a red ball at the top that said it
> had
> illegal things in it but I don't see anything illegal so guess it was
> all
> right for me to read it.  Ruth
>
>
>
>
> At 3:54 PM -0500 3/15/03, Ken Follett wrote:
>> Ruth,
>>
>> The Shinnecock were Algonquin's and may still be today. Algonquins
>> were a
>> bigger gang than the Iroquois, but tended to side with the English
>> during
>> the Colonial Revolution so our historical retribution is to sh*t them
>> out
>> of our history, their history and all history, and likewise ignore
>> their
>> bloody raids on our innocent women and children... like the Mohawks &
>> Last
>> of the Mohicans -- same folks different woods, different diet. It may
>> be
>> fortunate, in some respects but I'm bollixed if I know which, that the
>> Indians of LI tended to find out about the ravages of small pox sooner
>> than most of the indigenous locals west of the Hudson, which is
>> another
>> reason that they are quickly forgotten. I mean, faster dead faster
>> forgot.
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