[PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car

[Fred Schneider]

And, Herb, it overflows into all the other states because no textbook publisher wants to produce two editions … one for the Texas Board of Schoolbook Censors and one for the rest of the country.  So we all get history rewritten to satisfy Texas.   

I never got a decent U. S. History course until I took one through the University of Maryland when I was in the army.   I still haven't had a good World History course because our view on world history is our own history, i.e. European.  We presume, in writing world history, that Africa, South America and Asia do not exist.  

You might like to read two books by James Lowen.   One is "Lies My Teacher Taught Me" and the other is "Lies Across America" --- all those things you are told on historical markers and at various tourist sights.   When I picked up the second book, I looked to see first what might be included from my own area.   It was there, a chapter titled "You came to see the house, not hear about the man."   The people that preserved President James Buchanan's home tell you all about the house; they forget to tell you he was gay.   I'll leave you read it yourself to see what was missed.   Great things like road signs telling about massacres … indians cause them … in the case Lowen wrote about Mormons did it and then wrote the sign to blame it on the native Americans.   

http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/0743296281

And if you think Lowen is lying … I have a great friend, a college professor, who was asked to write a history text for high schools.   After he signed the contract, then the publisher told him who would review it for accuracy … i.e. which women's group, which black rights group, which Spanish activist group, etc.   In other words, he had to write it to please certain groups and he had to pay them for editing his work too.   Fortunately, just as he had finished chapter one, the publisher was bought out and they paid him to get lost because they didn't want two competing lines of textbooks.   


On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> All over Texas they have a habit of "rewriting" history to suit themselves,
> including textbooks for use in the Texas public schools. I'm sure they
> think they have a gosh-darn Peter Witt operating.............all the rest
> of the world is wrong.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
> 
>> We had a discussion here about certain cars in Cleveland not being Peter
>> Witts….
>> 
>> Well here is a video tape of a car they are calling a Peter Witt and "sure
>> a God made green apples," it isn't.   It was at one time but when Dallas
>> went one man, the center doors were received.   I would love to see proof
>> that Mr. Witt collected royalties.
>> 
>> The trucks are not right on the rebuilt car either.   Originally it had
>> Brill cast frame trucks with coil springs over the journals and the
>> bolsters resting on elliptical springs hanging from the frame cord.   These
>> cars never had MCB trucks in revenue service.
>> 
>> But it looks nice.
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuTiycs88ME
>> 
>> 
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