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History of thanksgiving

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Get ready folks and hold on to your knickers Last year I realized I didn't know the full scope of Thanksgiven. I knew the Pagan Harvest Home connection and the "Thanksgiving" basics we are taught in school. Natives, (Hell I was never even taught what tribe) and pilgrims, came together, shared food and everyone was happy. Never questioned it much but then I started getting this feeling 5 or 6 years ago like Thanksgiving was a hoax and it was glossing over genocide a fter I started researching who Christopher Columbus was.  So I took a dive down this rabbit hole that I am about to guide you all down. Each year November rolled around and like the good daughter, granddaughter, soldier I huffed and went along with the holiday. If you have been raised in the States, especially in the South you know how hard it is to get others to talk about stuff much less change how they do things. However, last year I put my foot down perse about I was done celebrating this "Holiday&qu
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Are you a witch they ask

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  What does the word witch mean? Many people believe the term witch means a woman who works with the devil and that it can not be used for a male practitioner... however, that may not be the case. Are you ready to take a dive down this rabbit hole and see what ya think on the other side? In medieval times the definition of witch was: *“Woman they are to cure without having studied she is a witch and must die.” In essence, these women were practicing medicine without a license in a male-dominated society. And we all know how big of an issue that was. Move up to Martin Luther in 1522, he said right before the witch trials really took off.    "Witches are the devil's whores who steal milk, raise storms, ride on goats or broomsticks, lame or maim people, torture babies in their cradles, change things into different shapes so that a human being seems to be a cow or an ox and force people into love and immorality.” With this type of definition, it sure makes a witch seem quite sca
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Zealandia / Helens Bridge

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Helens Bridge  Or should we say Zelandias Bridge as it was originally called? To understand why the bridge had a name change we first have to travel back in time to the 1800’s. An underrated man John Evens Brown traveled a shit ton during his short 68 years of life. Traveling around the states and out. In 1849 he chased the gold rush to California. John kept a vivid diary of the journey, hardships, and deaths that accompanied the trip. He lived in New South Wales, Australia, and even settled in New Zealand for a time. He married twice. When he married his first wife Peacock he became quite a prominent member of society.  During this time away he even became a Parliament member and named his district Swannanoa after a river in Asheville. His second marriage was a contract with Mrs. Martin in 1883.   North Carolina postcards North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Then in 1888, (some sources say 1884) John E Brown came back to Ashville North Carolina. Upon
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