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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Holiday Shopping or Holiday Shocking!



The holiday shopping season has officially begun and I am doing my best to avoid it. I was on the road visiting my grands this Thanksgiving and got to see all of them at the same time!!! I also got to see snow in Ohio and sleet in West Virginia. Finally, I got to see the ads for "Black Friday" which I thought was supposed to be a special holiday just for me! Imagine my surprize when I found out it was a shopping day when people get up before dawn to stand in line at stores to spend money they don't have for things they don't need. Not my kind of day at all.

I remember last year's Black Friday death of a Wal-Mart security guard who was trampled by a mob of shoppers.There isn't anything I could possibly want to buy that would be worth a man's life to buy.
What did you do the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Favorite History Books

  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C Davis
  • American Creation by Joseph J Ellis
  • American Leviathan: Empire, Nation and Revolutionary Frontier by Patrick Griffin
  • Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America by Douglas R Egerton
  • Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland ed. by Martha Dickinson Shattuck
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
  • From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
  • Hip Hop HIstory by Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport
  • Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
  • Roanoke: the Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
  • Rough Crossings: Britian, Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
  • Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson by Paul Finkelman
  • The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor
  • The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman
  • The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto

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