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Originally Posted by HarryT
Did he say why he couldn't prove it, as a matter of interest? Producing documentary evidence of a family relationship a mere 3 generations in the past is not difficult.
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I did ask him that. He said that they simple didn't honor his sources. Perhaps it like the question of the proof of evolution vs creation? Some folks just won't accept the 'proofs' no matter how sound they may be.
The same sort of thing happening at a poetry reading given in 1957 by Robert Frost as Penn State University.(I used to show a movie of that reading to my English classes.) English profs have long insisted that Frost's poem, 'The Road Not Taken' was written as his metaphor for life. (And of course ,there is no doubt that it can be use as such.) But when asked by a pipe-smoking, tweed-jacket-with-suede-elbow-patches English prof '...but sir, just what does that poem '
really mean?' Frost replied, "Son, my poems don't 'mean.' My poems
are. I was walking in the woods beside my house, and came to a fork in the trail. That's all there was to it."
Having walked that
same trail beside his home in Ripton, Vermont (now a public area dedicated to his work, with some of his poems carved into wooden tablets along the paths,) I too stood at that very same well-marked intersection, and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
But today, there are English professors all over the world who
still insist that Frost wrote this with the purpose, with the intent, of being his metaphor for life. No matter what he said... They are university profs. They know better. When my boxes arrive, I'll put up some photos of the trail and the poetry boards, and you'll be able to see just what he what he saw when the idea for that poem came to him.
and so....
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Stitchawl