tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post9039782603826245075..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Coal Countryelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-52914414046600026402009-01-03T07:51:00.000-05:002009-01-03T07:51:00.000-05:00I like to read your blog, this the fist... so next...I like to read your blog, this the fist... so next .. permit read again.. smile for you<BR/> http://baganbatublog.blogspot.com/Trade and economic issueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14686650932997950690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-87206689758412004602008-12-02T12:18:00.000-05:002008-12-02T12:18:00.000-05:00Confer the poem written as comment n° 12 on this w...Confer the poem written as comment n° 12 on <A HREF="http://picturespoetryprose.blogspot.com/2008/11/c-sundays-alphabet-prompt.html" REL="nofollow">this writing prompt</A>Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-81106258921886095042008-12-02T04:27:00.000-05:002008-12-02T04:27:00.000-05:00This is so grey, it reminded me of a question "abo...This is so grey, it reminded me of a question "abordée" on French television yesterday:<BR/><BR/>It was claimed that P. Joseph OFMCap, the grey eminence of Cardinal Richelieu, was clad in "gris, pas marron", grey not brown thus.<BR/><BR/>I am sceptic. Is there pictoral evidence, or are they just going to <I>literary</I> evidences about the words "gris, grey, grå"?<BR/><BR/>In times when "black" could mean <B>dark brown</B> (as in negro, noir, or Latin niger - no offense to black gentlemen, my gramp called them "neger" and he was certainly no racist) <B>beige</B> may well have qualified as "grey". Oh, "chocolat noir" is still dark brown, and coffee without milk is still dark brown in optics and "café noir" in linguistics.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-50550581299334461892008-12-02T02:58:00.000-05:002008-12-02T02:58:00.000-05:00+JMJ+Elena, the boys in that picture remind me of ...+JMJ+<BR/><BR/>Elena, the boys in that picture remind me of Filipino street children who also start working when they are very young. It's terrible to make any children labour under such conditions.Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-2343972130521755202008-12-01T21:04:00.000-05:002008-12-01T21:04:00.000-05:00This post hits home for me, although not the Irish...This post hits home for me, although not the Irish part. My parents came from Freeland and Shenandoah, both coal families. The Poles and the Slavs didn't care for the Irish there as they had come to control quite a bit of the society by the 1930's. My mother used to tell me about them wearing their fancy suits and carnations - clean as whistles - while the newer immigrants were always stained black. A real seperation of classes.<BR/>A coalminer's life was short and often hellish, both my grandfathers died of black lung. My dad was in the fields picking through the slate for coal (and huckleberries) by the time he was four.<BR/>A true picture of the horrors of a coalminers life was presented well in "Lust For Life," where Kirk Douglas played Van Gogh.cyurkaninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10544849696034906766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-62008625380078457832008-12-01T13:30:00.000-05:002008-12-01T13:30:00.000-05:00Interesting post. Isn't it horrible that the Irish...Interesting post. Isn't it horrible that the Irish escaped the potato famine only to find themselves under slavery by the mining company. Despite being kicked around a lot, they always seem to keep that fighting spirit. <BR/><BR/>I think the actor, Charles Bronson is a former Slavic miner from Pa. I love Pa. history....it's so diverse.Alexandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12356420873078531863noreply@blogger.com