George Washington's English Ancestors, Coolidge's Electric Horse and Other Stories
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:08.8 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:10.8 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:15.5 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:17.5 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:20.4 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:23.6 | Delicious. |
| 0:25.2 | You might find it funny that one of the protected, |
| 0:27.9 | nationally protected sites in the United Kingdom |
| 0:30.5 | is the ancestral house of the Washington's. |
| 0:34.4 | The The Washington's. The picturesque Stone Manor House and its gardens provide a tranquil oasis and reflect gentry life following the turbulence of the English Civil War. |
| 1:06.3 | It was the home of the Washington family from 1180 to 1613, Washington Old Hall. |
| 1:13.4 | So yes, the ancestral home of the family of America's first president is a British |
| 1:18.7 | museum and tourist stop, and I would say, what's a better way to describe it, a nice garden |
| 1:25.5 | to walk through and have a peaceful moment. |
| 1:27.9 | But it wasn't something that the famous family member would have known about it all. |
| 1:32.0 | He certainly didn't visit there, and he wouldn't have known about it. |
| 1:36.7 | During his lifetime, when he's president in 1792, Sir Isaac Hurd, who is the Garter Principal King of Arms or the Chief Herald of the College of Arms in London, |
| 1:49.8 | writes Washington to ask for information about the president's ancestry. |
| 1:55.2 | Washington has to reply, |
| 1:57.0 | This is a subject to which I confess I have paid very little attention. According to family |
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