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Post by Jim Wilson on Aug 21, 2012 18:56:06 GMT -5
pneymatiko.wordpress.com Cherokees Spoke Greek and Came from East Mediterranean
Three examples of North American rock art are discussed and placed in the context of ancient Greek and Hebrew civilization. The Red Bird Petroglyphs are compared with Greek and Hebrew coins and the Bat Creek Stone. The Possum Creek Stone discovered by Gloria Farley is identified as a Greek athlete’s victory pedestal. The Thruston Stone is interpreted as a record of the blending of Greek, Cherokee, Native American, Egyptian and Hebrew civilization. Keetoowah Society traditions, as captured in The Vision of Eloh’, are adduced to confirm a general outline of the origins of the Cherokee people in a Ptolemaic Greek trans-Pacific expedition joining pre-arriving Greeks, Jews and Phoenicians in the Ohio Valley around 100 c.e. Recent DNA investigations showing Egyptian, Jewish and Phoenician female lineages and the Y chromosome of Old Testament Priests among the Cherokee. A cave entrance overlooking the Redbird River, a tributary of the South Fork of the Kentucky River in Clay County, Kentucky in the Daniel Boone National Forest, has inscriptions which according to Kenneth B. Tankersley of the University of Cincinnati display a nineteenth-century example of writing in the Cherokee syllabary. A local resident (Burchell) recognizes Greek writing in one inscription (called Christian Monogram #2) but his reading is unsatisfactory for a number of reasons. Evaluation by experts in Greek and Semitic epigraphy identifies two distinct inscriptions, one in Greek and one in Hebrew. They appear to be contemporaneous with the Bat Creek Stone unearthed in the 1889 excavation of a tomb in East Tennessee by Cyrus Thomas of the Smithsonian Institution. Another record of Greek-speaking people in ancient America is the Possum Creek Stone, discovered by Gloria Farley in Oklahoma in the 1970s. It is discussed by her in Volume 2 of In Plain Sight as proof that the man history knows as Sequoyah did not invent the Cherokee syllabary. The inscription can be read as Greek, HO-NI-KA-SA or ‘o nikasa, i.e. “This is the one who takes the prize of victory,” a common inscription for the pedestal upon which victors were crowned at athletic games. The use is Homeric, and the spelling Doric. Read the entire blog at: pneymatiko.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/cherokees-spoke-greek-and-came-from-east-mediterranean
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Post by Jim Wilson on Aug 22, 2012 16:51:21 GMT -5
MOUNTAINSTORIES.NET The Old Home Place by Storyteller and Appalachian Humorist Stephen Hollen
I have posted this photo before. It is the old Arnett home place, originally built by my Great Grandpa, Tom Arnett. Though it is gone, I remember it well. It started out as a smaller cabin that is the left side of this cabin. Another small cabin was built and is the right side of the cabin. The middle is a dogtrot made of planks that joined the two cabins together. Along the back is a shotgun kitchen that was almost the full length of this cabin. I have so many wonderful memories attached to this old place. Though it is gone, my mind races back to the hills and Arnett's Fork off Double Creek in Clay County, Kentucky. I still can see my Great Aunts - Mag and Bess and Great Uncle Bill sitting on the porch. As I get closer they all stand and wait to hug my neck. Just across the creek to the left of this picture was the home my Grandma and Uncle Bert (Daddy's Mama and brother) shared. It is a reminder that happiness does not spring from wealth or things, but from the hearts of those who love us and who we love. www.mountainstories.net/2012/08/the-old-home-place.html
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Post by Jim Wilson on Aug 24, 2012 18:03:42 GMT -5
Green Clay
General Green Clay, early Kentucky settler and veteran of two wars
Green Clay was an American politician and a soldier in both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Clay was born August 14, 1757, in Powhatan County, Virginia to Charles and Martha Clay. He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, then moved to Kentucky, where he became a surveyor. He owned several distilleries and a tavern, as well as many ferries across the Kentucky River. He was elected Kentucky’s representative to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1789 and later served in both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly. During the War of 1812, Clay became a general in the Kentucky militia. In the spring of 1813, was ordered to the aid of General William Henry Harrison, who was besieged by British forces at Fort Meigs, Ohio. He was able to fight his way into the fort; however, many of his men were taken prisoner by Tecumseh after they had captured a British artillery battery. When the British abandoned the siege, Clay was left in command of the fort. He was still commanding when the British returned in July 1813. In an attempt by Tecumseh to lure Clay and the garrison out of the fort, Tecumseh’s warriors staged a mock battle, making it appear they were ambushing a column of American reinforcements. Clay was not fooled, since he knew no reinforcements were coming. He was able to hold out until the British again retreated. After the war, he returned to his plantation, and spent the rest of his life farming. He is thought to have been the wealthiest man in Kentucky of his time. He died at his home on October 31, 1828, at the age of 73, and was buried with Masonic rites in Richmond, Kentucky. Green Clay married Sally Lewis in Kentucky in 1795 and was the father of Cassius Marcellus Clay. He was a cousin of Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay. Clay County, Kentucky, was named in his honor. williamdbailey.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/general-green-clay-early-kentucky-settler-and-veteran-of-two-wars
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Post by Jim Wilson on Sept 2, 2012 5:28:15 GMT -5
Never again do I want to have to detour through downtown Manchester
For KSRCollege.com’s second High School football game of the week, I traveled all the way to Clay County in southeastern Kentucky for what promised to be a great matchup in the nightcap of the Appalachian Bowl between the Knox Central Panthers (2-0) and the Johnson Central Golden Eagles (2-0). What I didn’t bargain for, however, was just how late it took the “cap” off the night, as the first game seemed to drag on forever and kickoff between Knox and Johnson was pushed back to 10 pm, easily the latest I’ve ever cared to stay up to watch high school football. I’m happy to say that the two teams did not disappoint, however, and fans of both sides provided a fun atmosphere well-deserving of some KSR love. So here goes..... Read the entire blog at: ksrcollege.com/?p=9299
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Post by Jim Wilson on Dec 19, 2015 21:53:35 GMT -5
Clay County Native Pistol Packin' Molly Jackson Born December 22, 1880
Early Years in Kentucky
A ninth-generation Kentuckian, Mary Magdalene Garland (whose name would later grow to include Mills, Stewart, Jackson, and Stamos) was born in 1880 in Clay County and wrote her first song at the age of four. From her great-grandmother, Nancy MacMahan, young Molly acquired a repertoire of more than 100 old songs, which folk collector Alan Lomax would later record her singing for the Library of Congress archive. xroads.virginia.edu/~MA05/luckey/amj/kentucky.htm
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