David Lindsay (2) (1957–)
Autore di Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger Among the Pilgrims
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David Lindsay has written several previous books and has also written numerous articles. In addition to being a successful historian, he was also a founding member of the music groups the Klezmatics and They Might Be Giants. David Lindsay lives in New York City
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Is A Voyage To Arcturus Weird Fiction? in The Weird Tradition (Settembre 2011)
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Thus, the author quotes a local who is descended from the captain, as though there is some tradition of knowledge of the man, handed down for 12-13 generations. Perhaps there is. But we are mostly equals in that we must find out what our ancestors thought not by oral tradition, but from letters, diaries, etc.
When I grew up, my father told us we came over on the Half Moon. I don't know if this was true. Subsequent research proves to the best ability that we have, that we are descended from the earliest English settlers of Long Island and also from the earliest of the Dutch in New Amsterdam. Perhaps that is why I never heard from my Brooklyn-born Dad that we were also Mayflower descendants, by way of his Boston-born grandmother (who later retired to the South Shore after having lived in New York). Perhaps the Yankee- Red Sox rivalry is really much older than those teams. But William Brewster and someone named More are among our thousands of ancestors from that age.
I'm sort of glad I didn't know that when we went last summer (2008) to Plimoth Plantation for the first time. I enjoyed hanging out with the Indians, and I am glad that at the time, I had nothing to hide or be proud about. It was chill. And then I consider the nieces and nephews of ancestor Benoni Stebbins of Deerfield - they were kidnapped by French, but they stayed with the Indians (not unlike a recent abduction). Was it just Stockholm Syndrome or did the Indians actually live better than the Puritans, not, for instance, beating their children or hanging people as witches. Hm.… (altro)