Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm an antiquarian fascinated with anachronistic ideologies. In a moment of zeal, I once joined the I.W.W., San Pedro, CA chapter. After all, if one is to be a Wobblie, it might as well be at ground zero. Somehow, I don't see it as a contradiction to also be a member of the American Legion. However, I draw the line with membership in a political party. One of my favorite places to have been exhibited is the Workmen's Circle in Los Angeles. How true of the passing of that older generation. San Francisco saw the demise of two remnants from that earlier era, Archie Green and Jack Henning. S.d. On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Robert Meier wrote: > My grandfather, and his brother, came over in the 1890's to escape > the Czar's army. They departed from Latvia. He was an active > member of the I.W.W. for decades. Bob > > > On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:13 PM, B. D. Colen wrote: > >> George! Your grandfather and my great grandfather may have been on >> the same >> boat! :-) In fact...when I was in college in the mid-late 60s I >> had what I >> thought was a great idea for a book. It was going to be called "We >> Are Our >> Grandfathers' Children," and it was going to be an oral history >> focusing on >> the political connections between Jewish anti-war, SDS, campus >> radicals and >> their grandfathers - and mothers - many of whom were draft- >> avoiders from >> Czarist Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe, whose politics >> were way to >> the left of center. The parents of the kids, on the other hand, >> were very >> often relatively conservative, staid suburbanites. Unfortunately I >> decided >> that no one would publish a book by someone just out of college - >> this was >> quite a while ago when there were still standards - and in the >> intervening >> years all the grandfathers have died. >> >> >> >> >> On 6/25/09 1:51 PM, "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: >> >>> Interesting Henning. >>> >>> My paternal grandfather came to the U.S >>> in the early 1900's >>> to avoid conscription into the Russian Army . >>> >>> Regards, >>> George Lottermoser >>> george at imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>> >>> On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Henning Wulff wrote: >>> >>>> My dad had come to Canada to get away from a Europe that didn't >>>> seem to want to avoid war, and I didn't want to go to a country >>>> that seemed to want to wage war in all the corners of the Earth. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information