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Not the Memorial Day post I had planned
May. 26th, 2025 11:43 amReminder that lots of people died for us, whether the cause was just or not. The holiday was (mostly) invented by Black people in the South honoring Union soldiers.
OK, the synopsis of the holiday is done.
I was peeved at Trump's comment yesterday about manufacturing - he was basically saying that the US should make weapons and big machinery and China should make textiles. I don't see how that matches up with his tariff ideas, but we don't actually expect him to make sense - if he is doing the tariffs with any thought at all, it's probably to manipulate the financial markets by adding so much uncertainty. At any rate, here's the quote
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/26/trump-computers-tanks-t-shirts/83862168007/
I thought indignantly about the NC history of making socks, and then about my grandmother Bertie specifically. I looked to see what the web says about loopers (her main job from her teens through her sixties), and came up with an apparently famous Lewis Hine photo from 1914
https://www.loc.gov/item/2018677755/
Thank goodness the Library of Congress websites have not been removed yet.
In 1914, Bertie would have been an adult, but when the crops failed and they moved from the rural farm to Durham to do factory work, she had recently finished 8th grade, so she would have been 13, as Nannie said one of her co-workers was a few years later.
OK, the synopsis of the holiday is done.
I was peeved at Trump's comment yesterday about manufacturing - he was basically saying that the US should make weapons and big machinery and China should make textiles. I don't see how that matches up with his tariff ideas, but we don't actually expect him to make sense - if he is doing the tariffs with any thought at all, it's probably to manipulate the financial markets by adding so much uncertainty. At any rate, here's the quote
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/26/trump-computers-tanks-t-shirts/83862168007/
I thought indignantly about the NC history of making socks, and then about my grandmother Bertie specifically. I looked to see what the web says about loopers (her main job from her teens through her sixties), and came up with an apparently famous Lewis Hine photo from 1914
https://www.loc.gov/item/2018677755/
Thank goodness the Library of Congress websites have not been removed yet.
In 1914, Bertie would have been an adult, but when the crops failed and they moved from the rural farm to Durham to do factory work, she had recently finished 8th grade, so she would have been 13, as Nannie said one of her co-workers was a few years later.
