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Re: creepy symbolism



"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.
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Special Collections Dept.
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University of Utah
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'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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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott, Paul (FPM) [mailto:paul_scott@FPM.CO.HARRIS.TX.US]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 8:53 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: creepy symbolism

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