#merry mount

[nextwavefutures]

The Red May Day and the Green May Day

The Red May Day and the Green May Day: the politics of the environment and the politics of labour. New post.

As May Day approached this year I finally got round to a small project I’d been meaning to do for a few years now. This was to read Peter Linebaugh’s book The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day, which is a collection of pieces he has written over the years—some pamphlets, some articles—for and about May Day. Peter Linebaugh is a radical American historian, probably…

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[mulchthief]

Odd context: old engraving of Puritans hacking down the Maypole at Thomas Morton’s utopian Merry Mount colony found to be easily available as an iPhone case. File under “Dissonance Found During Google Image Search”

[ejbarnes]

Back in mid-September, about the time when Colonial Comics was arriving from the printers', the San Diego Free Press published an article about Thomas Morton's New English Canaan, reviewed by Plymouth Colony's William Bradford as "...a most infamous and scurrilous book, full of lies and slanders against many godly men." Now that Colonial Comics is out, you can read my story about Morton and Bradford.

[ejbarnes]

Colonial Comics: New England, 1620 1750 [Jason Rodriguez] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <div> <I>Colonial Comics</I> is a graphic novel collection of twenty stories focusing on the colonial period from 1620 through 1750 in New England. Created in partnership with the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Concord Museum