----- Original Message ----- From: "Lester M Powers" <lesterps@juno.com> To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [CRV] Shoe makers in Am. Revolution > Warren > > I checked the "A to Zax" dictionary at the library, > and found that "cordwinder" is just a dialectical version > of "cordwainer" -- they both mean the same thing, a > shoemaker. Didn't know that for sure -- I was guessing that it was a misspelling. > By the way, remember your virus warning? > > Sender: Hahaha > > Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story! > > Well, I got that message just the other day. > I deleted it unread because I thought it was just SPAM > advertising for child pornography. I would have deleted > it unread anyway, but oh well. I've heard of it in the Southwest. It got a writeup in the LA Times, I believe. The scary thing is that it could change the appearance of its email message -- no more Snowhite but the same danger. Here's an idea -- how about the secret of how to become a contestant on "Do You Want to Be a Millionaire"? Greed might triumph where sex failed. (I hope no virus writers are lurking on this list). > Still no word on what the funny story was about > General Washington and the shoemakers, but I did find > a book at the library, "Supplying Washington's Army," > by Erna Risch, Center of Military History, United States > Army, Washington, D.C., 1981. I find in this book that > the whole shoemaker thing was just plain chaotic. > Washington and the Continental Congress tried all sorts > of ways to get shoes onto the feet of the Army, all or > most of which seem to have failed. They even tried > importing shoes from France, but as you might expect, > deliveries were super-late, and the French shoes fell > apart all to flinders within a day or two anyway. > Whatever they tried, they always wound up back at > square one. Kinda like me. Sigh. Shoes were as important as muskets -- you had to march the army from A to B so that they could use their muskets. Best, Warren