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Queen Titania

Queen Titania

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It's OK I'm not drowning :)

My daughter for her new play needs the flavor of Charleston, Virginia at the turn of the 18th century. Music especially and social life ....anything at all you can think of to give an idea of what it was like to live there then xxxx
 
Yes you assume correctly, sorry, I missed out the West.

Thank you, most of it is older than the turn of the 18th century but it gives the flavor doesn't it ?

She is writing about Anne Bonny ..............I've just looked to check ....the little Madam No it wasn't Virginia it was South Carolina !!!! She asks me to research these things for her and doesn't even give me the right info ....................lol sorry .........Oh shit .....anyway it is a pretty place :) Thank you ...................... I'm off to check up all her info now and start agin ! ;-) better she told me nothing .........start from scratch.
 
Friday13 said:
Try these...

Everyday life in Colonial South Carolina

Colonial South Carolina (social studies for kids)

Colonial life in the "original 13"

Charleston Pirates: Anne Bonney

Pirates of the Bahamas: Anne Bonny

Charleston Tea Party (13 days before Boston)

Colonial Period of South Carolina

Colonial history of South Carolina (historical records)

Colonial period of Charleston
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You sweety pie, thank you. She has read masses on the Pirates them selves but needs the sounds and smells and flavor of life where, in particular, Anne Bonny grew up ...........brave bastards weren't they ? Cor ................ !

Knights' and Reps' links are cool too , I'll send them on thank you again ..........

Now though .......the Music of then ;-) Late Baroque ? And lots of hymns I supose ......what else ? I can imagine the English stuff but there was such a mingling of Cultures ............... and I've never been South of Virginia , sadly, I have always felt more drawn to the South.
 
NightSwimmer said:
RE: Music

Probably a bit more Celtic influence in the South. That's how we wound up with Bluegrass music.
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Irish and Scottish ? So they would have danced jigs ? French ?

What about early African influence and Indigious people ? Or did they keep to themselves? Did they have 'balls' that early on or were they not that formal at the turn of the century ?
 
Queen Titania said:
Irish and Scottish ? So they would have danced jigs ? French ?

What about early African influence and Indigious people ? Or did they keep to themselves? Did they have 'balls' that early on or were they not that formal at the turn of the century ?
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It's funny that everyone seems to think of the Old South only in terms of plantation owners. I don't doubt that they hosted great balls back in the day. Still... Then, as now, the incredibly wealthy made up only a tiny sliver of the overall population. The vast majority of the people who populated the Deep South back in those days were commoners who never made many headlines in the local news.
 
NightSwimmer said:
It's funny that everyone seems to think of the Old South only in terms of plantation owners. I don't doubt that they hosted great balls back in the day. Still... Then, as now, the incredibly wealthy made up only a tiny sliver of the overall population. The vast majority of the people who populated the Deep South back in those days were commoners who never made many headlines in the local news.
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Anne Bonnys' Pa did come up in the World though ...........read Fridays links you ! lol I always think of it as being quite sumptuous, in parts ....colorful and wild ......some very scary shit though eh ?

they bought this with them
[video=youtube_share;9wlU4PP1eUI]http://youtu.be/9wlU4PP1eUI[/video]

The split of Anne Bonny and her Pa came because he wanted her to marry 'well' .........that is why T.... wants to know what sort of social life and so on the better off had ............:)

Anne Bonny was more drawn to the wild life .it seems and I think T... has a handle on that part of the story ....... Piggys snuffling around Charleston .......I like that :)

T... went to Cuba alone a few years ago, she wanted to go before Castro died. Anyway she found herself on a beautiful beach one morning, she has just gone for a wee walk in the woods and came apon it. Out of the woods a bit further up came a little boy riding a big fat Piggy :)
 
Another helpful link...maybe

http://www.friendsofcharlestownelanding.org/gallery-4-columns

Went there as teenager.

(Funny aside....when I was in college we had some girls from the UK travelling the US, who came to a party of ours. They had toured the old Colonial sites and said, bemused, "The guide seemed so proud of the local buildings. He said...'This home is almost 200 years old!'."

To them, a house that was ONLY "200 yearsl old" back in England....was "newly built". :D)
 
GordonGecko said:
Another helpful link...maybe

http://www.friendsofcharlestownelanding.org/gallery-4-columns

Went there as teenager.

(Funny aside....when I was in college we had some girls from the UK travelling the US, who came to a party of ours. They had toured the old Colonial sites and said, bemused, "The guide seemed so proud of the local buildings. He said...'This home is almost 200 years old!'."

To them, a house that was ONLY "200 yearsl old" back in England....was "newly built". :D)
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Thank you Rep, the ship photos are wonderful aren't they. I'll send them on. Well 200 years isn't exactly young nor are they plentiful, sadly, though there is a little thatched cottage on the corner here which was built in 1619 orrr that is a bit too old mmm 16'' something anyway. I'll look next time,,,,,,,,,,,the owner is always up on the roof patching lol .............lots of mouses live in there I 'spect. But I know what she meant, your UK student. Arundel Castle down the road was built in 1068 .a wee bit older :)

I've spent a couple of days cramming the History of Charleston now .............. I know all sorts of things ...main exports where Rice, Deer Skins and Indigo and main imports Rum, Beer and Wine :) ....... They prefered work Slaves from what is now Ghana ........... poor poor things in the Rice fields ..... the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( Huguenots )....... And so then I ended up in France with an extraordinary wild Fencing woman ..ain't the internet Grand?

A fella called Locke and much much more .......lol I sent T..... masses of e mails and asked anything else ? ......she replied ..'Thank you, I have spent the day with ~~~~~~~~( a dear Ancient old Lady ) and then I went to a terrible Russian Art exhibition with #### ..I've got to lie down now,later' .sortta thing. The thought of the terrible Russian Art exhibition depressed me so much I went to lie down too ! ( not really I was already lying down ) ............. So Charleston will have to wait til the morrow, she is grateful for links though, I know, and it has an extraordinary History I am enjoying its story.

Any new thoughts on the way of life there and then will be gratefully received :)
 
Looking at, or trying to unravel, History from the perspective of one person who lived in that 'history' is an interesting exercise, it is strangely freeing.
 
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