The Battle of Bennington was not fought in Bennington Vermont. It was actually in Walloomsac, in New York State. It got its name due to the fact that the British Army’s objective was a granary in Bennington, now the site of the Bennington Battle Monument.
Walloomsac NY, some 25-30 miles NE of Albany, is 3 miles west of the NY border with Vermont, and 10 miles west of Bennington. Hildene, in Manchester VT and close to Bennington (about 25 miles north), is the former summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln and his wife Mary Harlan Lincoln. Robert Todd Lincoln was the eldest son of the President.
I’ve been to Hildene! Beautiful place: Hildene - Wikipedia
Mary Harlan Lincoln was the daughter of U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Interior James Harlan, Republican of Iowa. While holding the second post, he fired Walt Whitman from the department, supposedly due to disapproval of Whitman’s poetry. The wedding of Harlan’s daughter and Robert Todd Lincoln was delayed by the period of mourning which followed the assassination of Robert’s father, the President, in April 1865.
Walt Whitman’s longest-lasting romantic relationship was with Peter Doyle, whom Whitman met when he was 45 and Doyle was 21. Doyle was born in Limerick, Ireland, and came to the US with his family when he was 8 years old. The Doyles settled in Alexandria, Virginia, and Peter enlisted in the Confederate army when war broke out; he was 17. He was discharged, wounded, in 1862, and worked as a streetcar conductor in Washington, D.C., where he met Whitman, the lone passenger in his streetcar on a stormy winter night early in 1865.
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Ellen Naomi Cohen, born 1941, hailed from Alexandria VA and attended the same high school as Jim Morrison, the singer of the Doors. She was a singer, and toured in the musical The Music Man in 1962, but lost the part of Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It for You Wholesale to Barbra Streisand.
Ellen Naomi Cohen is better known as Cass Elliot and she sang with groups including The Mamas and The Papas, who sang California Dreamin’.
Cass Elliot died at the age of 32 in 1974 in London, in a room she was renting. Just four years later, Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, died in that same room.
The rumors that “Mama” Cass Eliot died of a drug overdose or choked to death on a ham sandwich are false. The first doctor to examine her after her death stated that there was a ham sandwich and a Coke next to her bed, that she had probably choked and that eating lying down is dangerous. However, the police report examined the sandwich and noted that none of it had been eaten.
The official findings of the coroner’s inquest were that Cass Eliot died from a heart attack brought about by degeneration of the heart muscle fiber, and nothing was found to have been blocking her mouth or throat.
Cass Elliot inspired the band’s name change from the New Journeymen to the Mamas and the Papas when she exclaimed, “Yeah! I want to be a Mama.”
ETA: I should include the link for that quote: Cass Elliot - Wikipedia
Laura Mackenzie Phillips, an American actress, is the daughter of John Phillips, singer in The Mamas & the Papas, and his first wife, Susan Adams. Mackenzie Phillips, as a 12 year old, had a role in the movie American Graffiti, and later starred as a rebellious teenager in the sitcom One Day At a Time.
One Day at a Time aired from 1975 to 1984. Bonnie Franklin, Pat Harrington, Jr., and Valerie Bertinelli were the only cast members to remain with the series throughout its entire run.
Lead actress Mackenzie Phillips was fired after the fifth season due to growing problems with substance abuse. She had a sexual relationship with her father that unfortunately does not appear to be consensual.
In the 1960s, Depatie-Freling Enterprises, the animation studio behind the Pink Panther cartoons, also created a series of cartoon shorts featuring “The Inspector,” a character which they based on the Inspector Clouseau character in the Pink Panther films. Actor Pat Harrington Jr., who was later well-known as Schneider on One Day at a Time, provided The Inspector’s voice.
The Pink Panther is the first movie in a series of films featuring the bumbling French detective Jacques Clouseau. The ‘pink panther’ is actually a large pink diamond of enormous value. It is so named because the flaw at its center, when viewed closely, is said to resemble a leaping pink panther.
Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer, songwriter, poet, actor and director who composed and performed songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, later throughout the world. Having sold over 25 million records worldwide, Brel is the third best-selling Belgian recording artist of all time.
Number one is Salvatore Adamo and #2 is Frédéric François
In the 1998 Wes Anderson movie Rushmore, teen genius Max Fischer looks up the lovely, lonely first-grade teacher Rosemary Cross when he is intrigued that she wrote an inspirational quotation in a treasure-hunting book by Jacques Cousteau that Fischer got from the library.
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, has also sculpted a monument to cattle trail drivers that stands in front of the Texas Pioneer and Trail Drivers Memorial Hall next to the Witte Museum in San Antonio, the head of Abraham Lincoln carved from a six-ton block of marble in the US Capitol Crypt in Washington DC, a statue of Civil War General Philip Sheridan, and Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Also, Gutzon Borglum was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Gutzon Borglum was indeed a member of the Ku Klux Klan, although he later lied in publicly denying it. His son Lincoln concluded the work on Mount Rushmore after his death in March 1941.
Mount Rushmore is a national memorial, rather than a national park. A national memorial is a designation for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. Mount Rushmore is so designated because it memorializes four former presidents.
Other national memorials include the Johnstown Flood Memorial and the Flight 93 Memorial, both located in Pennsylvania.
The Flight 93 National Memorial commemorates the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 who overcame their hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001, thereby averting a suicide attack on what the 9-11 Commission surmised was probably either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Initial plans for the memorial were revised after it was noted that aerial views of its grounds were in the shape of a crescent, traditionally a symbol of Islam.
The theme song from MASH* was titled “Suicide is Painless.” The music was written by Johnny Mercer and director Robert Altman’s son Mike wrote the lyrics, which are sung in the movie version. Royalties for the song have made Mike Altman fairly well off: Robert Altman complained that his son made more money from the song than he did from directing it.
In 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the federal prohibition on seeking another person’s assistance to commit suicide infringed the Charter of Rights.
Medically assisted dying for the terminally ill is now provided for by interlocking federal and provincial laws.