[NetBehaviour] Around the Nine Men's Misery

[Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour]

Around the Nine Men's Misery

https://youtu.be/05mwzngAV5I video

Apparently the oldest war monument in the United States, 1676,
in the woods near a monastery, Cumberland, Rhode Island. Roger
Williams was still alive. When we arrived, no one was there. The
monument is tended at times, clear from the flags and plastic
flowers. In 1928, the original monument was replaced by a stone
cairn to stop desecration (one of the soldiers was said to be
"unusually large with a double row of teeth"  leading to
attempts to remove the body. (Wikipedia). We've visited the site
several times, there in the woods, among moss, trees, stones,
water, some paths, oddly isolated. Shakuhachi in the cold and
wind, less visible in the image, but interfering with
embouchure. I kept thinking modal after the fact, but I have no
such proficiency. The sound resonated, there were woodpeckers,
chickadees, squirrel, scuttlings, flappings. Wind, the rain held
off. Returned from a nearby library sale with 3 Marx, 2 Anais
Nin.

(If you are interested in Narragansett studies related to the
area, you might want to read The Tomaquag Museum Edition of
Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, edited by
Dawn Dove, Sandra, Robinson, Lorien Spears, Dorothy Herman Papp,
and Kathleen J. Bragdon - an amazing work bringing new insight
into William's original book, along with information about the
contemporary Narragansett. The commentary is brilliant, a double
commentary, since Williams' original text itself is commentary;
this edition expands and grounds the whole. A visit to the
museum itself is very worthwhile.)

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