Well, Ed, Texas is further behind than you know. It has to catch up not only with Georgia; in addition to our carnival, there's the Carnival of Maryland, the Carnival of Ohio Bloggers, the Virginia Blog Carnival, and the Tarheel Tavern (that's my native state of North Carolina).
The Carnival of New Jersey Bloggers seems to have been inactive since last August, and the Illinois Carnival was last seen even further back.
(All of these are from the list of blog carnivals at-- well, at Blog Carnival.)
"If Georgia, with its dull, almost-landlocked, not-found-by-Europeans-until-the-17th-century and having-only-peaches-instead-of-peppers history can do it," Ed says, "Texas should be able to do it better."
Ed-- "Dull" is in the eye of the beholder; peaches vs. peppers is a matter of personal preference; "almost-landlocked," well, I'm not sure of your point there. But "not-found-by-Europeans-until-the-17th-century": that's a statement that can be verified, a point on which a real comparison can be made.
According to Wikipedia, "On
That's 1528.
On September 29, 1526, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón
1526.
So, Ed, you can have your peppers and your shoreline; we have our blog carnival and the distinction of the first European colony.
Good luck getting a Texas blog fiesta together!
(I wrote something about San Miguel a few years ago. I'll see if I can find it and post it here later.)
4 comments:
Clearly, you are unafraid of the axiom (and anti-litter campaign slogan) "Don't Mess With Texas"!
There's good history behind that anti-litter slogan, too!
Yes, Texas is way behind. But -- I hope -- it's only because we haven't tried it yet.
(Look, David, you pegged it when you said I was "jealous" of the Georgia carnival. Georgia's is very well done. Texas history teachers need something like that, and I hope we can do as well.)
Hey, we may be landlocked but I seem to remember that many Georgians went west to Texas and helped to make it the great state that it is, right?
I'm here to tell you that a blog carnival is a very tough thing to put together...not the basics....but just getting people to submit. Educators and historians are used to very well published carnivals so it only seems natural to submit to one for their state, but journal type bloggers are as used to it and don't see the value right away. We will keep on trying though...
Thanks for all your support David.
Almost landlocked? And I suppose Texas has a large part of it that is sandy beaches onthe ocean? Nope just on the Gulf. I lived in Texas and it just don't compare to my sweet Georgia!
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