I’m a great believer in the subconscious mind. What you notice—and what you choose to spend time thinking about—-plays a tremendous role in your life and future.
This 1904 photograph of three Navajo men by photographer Edward Curtis.
Curtis called it A Point of Interest. All three men are looking to the right side of the picture at something we can’t see. What sound or image arrested their attention? What are they gazing at?
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I think a lot of how we are losing these beautiful elements of our past and it makes me sad. But if I practice what I preach about the subconscious, I’d focus on how to preserve our past and introduce more people to the love all of us share of turn of the century history,
That is much better framing. Now if only I was a little more clever about how to achieve it!
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Interesting thought. I’d guess that you do some of that now with this site! I’d bet that your books have created an interest in the early twentieth century in more than a few people too.
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Thank you, Ruby! 😊 I hadn’t thought of it like that but that’s very nice of you to say!
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The photo of the three Native Americans is, in a way, prophetic. It captures the 3 men wondering what happened to their once great nation.
The misinformed believe the period of 1900 to about 1929 is called “The Gilded Age,” a name taken from the title of a book written by Mark Twain. “The Gilded Age” is considered to be the “Reconstruction Era” that followed the Civil War, up to 1900.
The first 3 decades of the 20th Century are considered “The New Era” or the “Progressive Era.” It was an era of technological advancement; it was a time of clean-up of government corruption; and, through regulations, a time to make big business more responsible. It was the era that gave women the “Right To Vote.” It also was a time when the slum areas in New York and other large cities, occupied by European immigrants, were eliminated. It is the period that gave America the wherewithal to be a positive force in the world and the industrial strength to win the two World Wars of the 20th Century. That is why teaching history and keeping it “alive” is so important.
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Great points all the way around! There’s a certain sense of loneliness that the photo gives me. The men are grouped together with a lot of empty space around them. It gives you a sense of how little they were as they faced the new and terrifying future that was upon them. Whether it was the Gilded Age or the Progressive Age, it was crushing their old ways…
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