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    • The Overland Stage
      • The Holladay Overland Stage: 1 – The Central Route
      • The Overland Stage – 2 Company Operations
      • The Overland Stage – 3 Exploring The Route – An Overview
      • The Overland Stage: 4 – South Platte/Julesburg/Ft Sedgwick
        • Jack Slade
      • The Overland Stage: 5 – Julesburg to Junction Station (aka Ft Morgan)
      • The Overland Stage: 6 – Junction Station to Latham
      • The Overland Stage: 7 – Latham Crossing to Fort Collins
      • The Overland Stage: 8 – LaPorte to Virginia Dale
      • The Overland Stage: 9 – Virginia Dale to Cooper Creek
      • The Overland Stage: 10 – Cooper Creek to Pass Creek
        • Fletcher Family
      • The Overland Stage: 11 – Pass Creek to Bridger Station
      • The Overland Stage: 12 – Bridger Pass to Duck Lake
      • The Overland Stage: 13 – Duck Lake to LaClede
      • The Overland Stage: 14 – LaClede to Almond
      • The Overland Stage: 15 – Almond to Rock Springs
      • The Overland Stage: 16 – Rock Springs to Fort Bridger
      • The Overland Stage: 17 – Fort Bridger to Weber Station

I find I don’t wish to explore new lands, but to explore again those I have already passed through, trying to see what I’d missed in the first hectic rush … Gerard Van der Leun

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FORD

The New American Digest Posted on January 23, 2025 by DTJanuary 23, 2025
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To Friends In The Southlands

The New American Digest Posted on January 22, 2025 by DTJanuary 22, 2025

Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
Over the fields we go
Laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight.

Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh, O
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.

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Lunch

The New American Digest Posted on January 22, 2025 by DTJanuary 22, 2025
With fresh homemade blackberry jam
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Tunes For Tuesday – The The “Uncertain Smile”

The New American Digest Posted on January 21, 2025 by DTFebruary 4, 2025

A sample of some obscure - and some maybe not obscure - tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.

Today's selection: The The - Uncertain Smile

I like the piano bit towards the end.

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Hope & Change

The New American Digest Posted on January 20, 2025 by DTJanuary 19, 2025
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Oh Dear – I Almost Forgot

The New American Digest Posted on January 19, 2025 by DTJanuary 19, 2025

January 19, 1807
One of America's greatest and most honorable leaders is born.

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Reminder

The New American Digest Posted on January 19, 2025 by DTJanuary 19, 2025

Gerard died 2 years and 1 week ago tomorrow - Jan 27, 2023; a week from tomorrow (Monday). I don't know Neo's plans for the American Digest site, but I suspect y'all have only about 1 week left to enjoy Gerard's writings as he wrote them.

All good things come to an end ... and the end is near.

Damn! ... I hope he and Ol' Remus got together.

I have a black cat as well - he "helps" me write - and I'm not all that much younger than Gerard was.

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Byzantine

The New American Digest Posted on January 19, 2025 by DTJanuary 19, 2025
circa 1261
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Comments And Articles

The New American Digest Posted on January 19, 2025 by DTJanuary 19, 2025

A question was asked in Comments about how to submit an article for posting. That's the easy part. Send your submission to:

dt@newamericandigest.org

and I'll get it posted.

I have to set up an internal "author" account to give proper credit and WP requires an email to go with it. I'll use the one the article comes from. The email will not be published and the name you use is your choice … be unique with the name though, "Anonymous" may not cut it - lots of people named Anonymous :)

Names need to be unique: if you submit an article as "Name" and an author account is set up under that name (that process is invisible to you), the next Name that comes along will have to use a different name, even if "Name1".

For articles to be posts, I'd want something that doesn't really belong in comments; something worthy of being shared globally with others and not buried in Comments that get lost over time. Anne's piece of yesterday titled "Tomorrow" is a good example. Essay length at most - suitable for a post; something that will inspire others' interest. Really long articles belong on pages, not posts. I'll refine any length limitations as articles are submitted.

If it's a really long comment, often it probably should be considered for a post unless it has specific intent to the post to which it's attached.


Now the hard part ... the commenter also asked about rules and limitations.
To tell the truth, I hadn't really given that any thought until now.

As far as rules? I'd like to say none, but here I go establishing a few ...

I suspect there will need to be guidelines and rules of some sort beyond what I give here eventually. I'll let that go for now and see how things work out. "Experience is the best teacher".

First: If you send it I will assume you intend it to be posted unless you tell me directly otherwise (you can also "talk" to me directly and privately through that address if you need to). This is the internet - posts are forever ...

Not that I expect to use the powers of Administrator but I will reserve the right to be the arbiter of what gets posted if need be.

"Nastiness" and personal attacks will not be posted. I'd like to keep political commentary to a minimum. Just so y'all know my biases, easterners consider me extreme right wing (I worked near DC for a while); here at home, I'm considered right of center. I'm sure that bias will come through but I'd prefer to be neutral here. I deal with that stuff too much - as I suppose you all do as well - and I don't really want to deal with it here. There's a balance needed here though - some political discussions are OK … I'm just not sure what those limits are yet. "Trump is a Nazi" doesn't make the cut - no he's not, but why do you think so? might make the cut. A thoughtful discussion of a policy - pro or con - usually does.

I'll let it be known right now I'm pretty hard-core anti-tranz. The topic doesn't need to come up here - pro or con. Other sites cover it elsewhere if you need the discussion; keep the rhetorical yours and others sex lives someplace else.

Boundaries are flexible for now. If experience indicates limits need to be defined more thoroughly, it will be done. But not until experience forces my hand. Even Gerard had limits ...

This post will eventually turn into a WP page and be given a link on the header so these "rules" remain accessible rather than get buried with time.

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Williamsburg

The New American Digest Posted on January 18, 2025 by DTJanuary 18, 2025
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Rules

Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you

Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'

I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it


Men who saw night coming down about them could somehow act as if they stood at the edge of dawn.


From Gerard's site. The picture always caught my eye.

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