Tom,

A friend made a new blog and asked me to try is out. My first entry was an 
examination of what should be taught to children in elementary and secondary 
school about those people who live good lives and then do one bad thing vs 
those who live a bad life and do one or two good things. (Nat Turner the 
former and John Paul Joes the later). The friend who asked me to do the blog 
responded with the suggestion that I include another site for "Infamous 
Americans" and put those questionable people under that heading.

Maybe that is the solution to the problem. Include those with infamous 
activities in their lives on the Infamous Americans site perhaps with a 
cross link to where they are included under the Famous Americans.

I need to mull this over for a bit to make a decision to have a parallel 
site. It will take a lot of work to round up enough Infamous Americans to 
make the site worth visiting. And, I have other things on my plate including 
coding math sheets for random numbers and more universal applications. 
Usually I do one or two Famous Americans every month or so. So if I start 
it, it will not be overwhelming to begin with, but a small start with a few 
people, like John Paul Jones, Jefferson Davis, Harry Byrd, and Nat Turner, 
all of whom did some good in their lives, but did the bad as well.

Anne

Anne Pemberton
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Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: And Now Nat Turner


> Would Nat Turner be a "Famous American" or an "Infamous American?"
>
> Was Nat Turner a "Famous American" or "Infamous American" at all,
> considering his only qualification was his methodical slaughter of white
> civilians during the uprising?
>
> Tom
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