"The swastika is the best example of recent
years - for centuries a good luck symbol in Asia, co-opted by the Nazis it has
become _the_ symbol of evil and hatred."
And interestingly enough, just last week I was down'ta
the Grand Canyon, camped at Lava Canyon, about mile 70 or so. We took a
hike up the canyon to look at some petroglyphs (rock art left by the Ancestral
Pueblo--less politically correctly known as the Anasazi--probably about 1,000
years old). The 'glyphs were on boulders and sure enough, there was a
swastika. Even knowing its ancient history it was creepy to
see.
Sorry to jump in so late on the spudding discussion, I
didn't read all of my email before answering. I remember going with my dad
to locations where they were spudding, although I only worked on workover rigs
and for service companies (mud, wireline, and so
on).
Roy Webb, C.A. Multimedia Archivist Special Collections
Dept. J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah 295 South 1500
East Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 (801)
585-3073 roy.webb@library.utah.edu
'Course, I meant
to comment earlier that I found it odd that anyone would by choice associate
themselves with a publication called the "Spinster", given its association
with old maids, but maybe they were sticking by its original reference to
spinning wheels. Either way, this is too much thought for 9AM for
me.
DS
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Daniel Sokolow, Archives Coordinator
David Taylor Archives North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
155 Community Drive Great Neck, NY 11021 mailto:dsokolow@nshs.edu
Daniel
and Katrina both made a connection between the symbols of a Southern ladies’
society and the Klan. I, for
one, think that they are stereotyping the members of this
group.
In
her original posting Beth stated that the society was 100 years old, i.e.
dates from about 1900. At that
time the Klan was dormant.
White supremacists were in firm control of southern society and were
openly going about their business of disenfranchising undesirable voters
(poor whites as well as blacks) legislatively rather than through secret
societies.
It
was not until after World War I that the Klan made a comeback at which point
one does find KKK-inspired organization southern campuses (and probably
elsewhere). Moreover, the
original Klan and related societies had drawn much of their symbolism from
Greek mythology so one will have to come up with stronger evidence than a
few Nordic symbols to make a convincing case that this society was some sort
of a KKK Junior League.
Paul
R. Scott
Records
Management Officer
Harris
County, TX
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