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ndrosenTo continue with our Open Mike session on Sunday, July 30, 2017, Bob Jene talked about hearing Paul Simon, who was or had been a U.S. Senator, give a sermon at a Unitarian Church about the man whom he considered the greatest American (not Henry George, Elijah Lovejoy). This was back in the Reagan Administration— an aside: “Ronald Reagan remembers the future and imagines the past.” Anyway, Lovejoy was an anti-slavery newspaper editor and agitator, whose press was repeatedly destroyed by pro-slavery mobs. He moved to Alton, Illinois, where he was shot and killed, becoming an abolitionist martyr.
Wyn Achenbaum spoke of a Georgist website, staneb-music.org [sorry, that address doesn’t seem valid anymore]. That’s for the Single Tax and Natural Energy Band, led by a British fellow named John Harris. Liner notes for the music.
Paul Justus remarked that people who own a house with land or a farm, and have a mortgage — educated people who have never heard of Henry George — think that their labor is exchanged for wealth in another form, namely land.
Marty Rowland said that what we advocate is not the public owning the land, but the public owning the value of the land.
Then there was some mention of the 1946 movie Dragonwyck, with Vincent Price, set in the early nineteenth century Hudson Valley, against the backdrop of the Rent Wars. (We saw scenes from that at another conference, a few years earlier.)
And that’s all I have about Open Mike; accounts of our more official sessions will follow.
Wyn Achenbaum spoke of a Georgist website, staneb-music.org [sorry, that address doesn’t seem valid anymore]. That’s for the Single Tax and Natural Energy Band, led by a British fellow named John Harris. Liner notes for the music.
Paul Justus remarked that people who own a house with land or a farm, and have a mortgage — educated people who have never heard of Henry George — think that their labor is exchanged for wealth in another form, namely land.
Marty Rowland said that what we advocate is not the public owning the land, but the public owning the value of the land.
Then there was some mention of the 1946 movie Dragonwyck, with Vincent Price, set in the early nineteenth century Hudson Valley, against the backdrop of the Rent Wars. (We saw scenes from that at another conference, a few years earlier.)
And that’s all I have about Open Mike; accounts of our more official sessions will follow.
