Spoken · A 1776 town · 1763
A grandfather's war
90Sit with it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
No book. Who died, who held the farm, how the family got here.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
A thirteen-year-old in 1776 had a grandfather who had been in the French and Indian War, or who had crossed the ocean. That was the history available after dark. No index. No second source in the house.
The score is for a true handoff, and it depends on the teller. A boast is a lower telling than a name and a field.
Folio
Keep A grandfather's war in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
9/10
The story is carried by a person who did the thing, or buried the person who did.
Household
9/10
This is the household's memory. Births were in the Bible. The war was in the voice.
Piety
9/10
Providence is often claimed. Sometimes it is only survival.
Courage
9/10
He tells the part where men died. A child is allowed to hear the cost.
Republic
9/10
A family inside a larger fight. The neighbor on the frontier was not theoretical.
Temperance
9/10
Blood is not a sport in a grandfather's telling, when the telling is honest.
Truth
9/10
It can be embroidered. It is still an account with names in it.
Stewardship
9/10
If he does not tell it, the child cannot look it up. Paper was too dear, and no one wrote it down.
Live historicallyAsk the oldest person in the family for one story with a name, a place, and a cost. Write it down.