The Nancy Hart Historic Park - Elberton, Gerogia

    Recenetly my school and I went on a American Revolution school trip to the Nancy Hart Cabin, and as an added bonus to the Georgia Guidestones nearby. On a rainy/murky day we first visited the Georgia Guidestones which stand in a remote part of Elbert County stating ten guidelines in eight different modern languages: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. They say,

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

   A shorter message is inscribed on another slab which sit on top of the four stones in four ancient languages: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs, saying, "Let these be Guidestones to an Age of Reason."
   It's a cool and awesome site and great for pictures!
   No one know who commissioned the structure, but it was built by Elberton Granite Finishing Company.  Elberton is the granite capital of the world!

   Next (after picking up our pizza! very good pizza!) we drove over to the Nancy Hart Cabin. Just in case you don't know, Nancy Hart was a Revolutionary heroine who, as they say, was a fiery woman, not afraid of no Torey.
   One day as she and her young child worked around their one room cabin some Tories, otherwise known as the Redcoats or British, came up to their front yard demanding that Nancy feed them. She yelled at them and said, "Them Tories done takin' all my pigs and left me with nothin' but a turkey. Now scoot!" But, nope! they didn't leave and by golly, they had no manners! They shot her turkey and made her cook it. But Nancy was smart.
   As Nancy talked and laughed and even drank with these men, she came up with a plan and sent her daughter, Sukey, down to blow the conk shell which was used to call the men nearby back home. After that, one by one Nancy and Sukey got the Tories guns out of there except for three.  By that point the men saw her taking the guns.
   Nancy held the guns in firing position and said, "Don't take a step closer! I ain't afraid to shoot you!" and sure enough she wasn't. One man moved closer and she shot. Another man... She shot him. Another.... You guessed it! She shot him. Now you may ask, why were those men so foolish as to keep moving forward? Answer: Some say she was cross-eyed, so the men couldn't tell where she was aiming. But by golly again, she was good shot.
   By that point her husband and the men were back and said they should take the rest of them out and shoot them but she said, "Shootin's too good for them! They the ones who killed John Dooley, and I am the one who find them and I the one who's gonna hang!" And that was the end of those Tories.
   After that, Nancy became a Georgia heroine being the only woman to have a county named after her, but not only does she make it on the Georgia's heroes list, but also the Georgia History's Mysteries list!

   Thanks for reading!

MJ

The Georgia Guidestone -  Guidestone Rd NW, GA 30634

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones


Nancy Hart Historic Park -  River Road Elberton, GA 30635  
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Hart

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