[Today’s run: rest day]
I took today off from work and in the morning we did some of the Pilgrimage, an annual house tour event in Columbus, MS. We toured through three antebellum houses. This string trio was playing on the porch at one of them. It was a very nice day and the music was great.
The houses we toured were interesting. The people have done a lot of work to restore them and fill them with period furniture and decor.
Columbus must have been an exciting place in the late 1850’s when these houses were built. Just imagine the changes that happened between 1820 and 1860. A lot of people became very rich and Columbus was a transportation hub (on the navigable Tombigbee River). And it avoided much of the destruction of the civil war, so many houses remain as they were built.
Anyway, beautiful houses, beautiful decor, lots of nice people in hoop skirts telling us about it as we went from room to room.
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I have never visited the South. It is good the buildings of the slave era still stand. People forget that 100 years ago women couldn’t vote and 150 years ago people were _owned_ – and that people in the South fought and died to preserve slavery. Two of the presidents (who could be deemed founding fathers) on Mt. Rushmore owned people. (One of them had at least one child using their property, so to speak.) It is impossible to conceive of this happening in America today and speaks to liberal ideals and progress beyond the ideals of the founding fathers. There was slavery in the North, too, but there are no obvious remaining relics that I know of. In Massachusetts slavery was overturned by a court decision – not a war. An activist court, using today’s lexicon. I am thinking people would be surprised to hear the North had slavery at all…