Thursday, March 16, 2006
Nobody and Nothing....
I'm feeling tired...I've been on the Ellis Island website far too long, looking for lost ancestors.
I was thinking how wild it must had been on the immigrant ships with a majority of the passengers being in their 20's and single, every night must had been party night. No wonder they all wanted to flee to America...and get away from parents and rules in the old country. They all had such strong beliefs that this was the land of milk and honey where streets were paved with gold....what a rude awakening it must had been when they docked. On the ship manifest passengers had to list who they were going to visit/stay with, one of my relatives said "nobody"....so that runs in the family. One of my favorite answers to a question...."who are you talking to on the phone for so long?'...Nobody. My other favorite is nothing..."what are you doing?'...Nothing. Also on the manifest are such occupations as blacksmith....how many blacksmiths do you know, and countryman...what exactly does a country man do? And I laugh when some women list their occupation as...wife....that is a full time job. Another ancestor listed his occupation as "well off"...those were the days my friend.
The storm excepted for today never arrived...now "they" say maybe it will come tomorrow...but nothing like the hell of a hail we received Tuesday....drats, I was looking forward to more excitement.
I was thinking how wild it must had been on the immigrant ships with a majority of the passengers being in their 20's and single, every night must had been party night. No wonder they all wanted to flee to America...and get away from parents and rules in the old country. They all had such strong beliefs that this was the land of milk and honey where streets were paved with gold....what a rude awakening it must had been when they docked. On the ship manifest passengers had to list who they were going to visit/stay with, one of my relatives said "nobody"....so that runs in the family. One of my favorite answers to a question...."who are you talking to on the phone for so long?'...Nobody. My other favorite is nothing..."what are you doing?'...Nothing. Also on the manifest are such occupations as blacksmith....how many blacksmiths do you know, and countryman...what exactly does a country man do? And I laugh when some women list their occupation as...wife....that is a full time job. Another ancestor listed his occupation as "well off"...those were the days my friend.
The storm excepted for today never arrived...now "they" say maybe it will come tomorrow...but nothing like the hell of a hail we received Tuesday....drats, I was looking forward to more excitement.
# posted by sunflower @ 7:00 PM 
