Comments on: The Divided States #2: South Dakota Sojourn http://thelazyscholar.com/2010/01/29/the-divided-states-2-south-dakota-sojourn/ A Not-Quite-Daily Guide to the Digital Archive Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: lazyscholar http://thelazyscholar.com/2010/01/29/the-divided-states-2-south-dakota-sojourn/#comment-393 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:08:42 +0000 http://thelazyscholar.com/?p=730#comment-393 Thanks a lot Jim for your comments! I looked at your website and your performances sound great!

all best, stephen

]]> By: Jim Cooke http://thelazyscholar.com/2010/01/29/the-divided-states-2-south-dakota-sojourn/#comment-392 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:05:37 +0000 http://thelazyscholar.com/?p=730#comment-392 Very interesting! I liked the first season of Deadwood but parted company in the following seasons. The performances were wonderful but I couldn’t believe the language. There were oaths and curses & they seemed quite contemporary. In fact, too contemporary. Never, was “the Lord’s Name” taken in vane. Why was that? Now, that would have been a curse of power but we never heard it.
Today, I posted something relative to President Calvin Coolidge on your site. “Silent Cal” has taken me out to South Dakota several times to recycle his address of dedication of the work about to begin on Rushmore Mountain in 1927. Coolidge was our first president to acknowledge that he had “Indian Blood.” Today, we laugh at newsreels showing a solemn President Coolidge in a ceremony – perhaps smoking a sacred pipe with his “Indian brothers.” Back then, his respectful demeanor was much appreciated by Native Americans.

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