On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:21:08 GMT, "alohacyberian"
wrote:
>"B Vaughan" wrote in message
>news:g0r4k1121a5t93cvjun2lovt6rh2nbpk2s@4ax.com...
>> However, if I'm not mistaken it started out with a group of
>> Pennsylvania Dutch people who went west to escape the vengeful
>> punishment that would have been inflicted on them because one of their
>> womenfolk got pregnant out of wedlock. That for starters, to anyone
>> who knows Pennsylvania Dutch culture, is totally lacking in
>> verisimilitude.
>>
>
>If, in fact, Michener did have that as part of his book, it's because it was
>an historical incident which actually happened. All kinds of things happen in
>every culture that are out of the ordinary and not traditionally the way
>things go. It's those things that make stories more interesting. KM
I'm sorry, I'm very skeptical that news of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy
would have been committed to paper in that day. I imagine that
Michener found that a group of settlers had come from Pennsylvania and
invented their motives. A little research into the culture of the
Pennsylvania Germans would have made this section of the book more
believable.
--
Barbara Vaughan
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