NEW YORK STATE “I know histhry isn’t thrue, Hinnissy, because it ain’t like what I see ivry day in Halsted Street. If any wan comes along with a histhry iv Greece or Rome that’ll show me th’ people fightin’, gettin’ dhrunk, makin’ love, gettin’ married, owin’ th’ grocery man an’ bein’ without hard coal, I’ll believe they was a Greece or Rome, but not befur.” — Dunne, Finley Peter, OBSERVATIONS BY MR. DOOLEY, New York, 1902 “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project New York State HDT WHAT? INDEX NEW YORK STATE NEW YORK STATE 440,000,000 BCE Origin of the Taconic chain of mountains that now lies to the east of the Hudson River valley. This chain of mountains would be named by Ebenezer Emmons in 1844 — and his correct explanation of this early origin of these mountains would eventuate in his being driven from the state of New York. HDT WHAT? INDEX NEW YORK STATE NEW YORK STATE NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT New York State “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX NEW YORK STATE NEW YORK STATE 1100 In what would become upstate New York, by this point, longhouse construction had begun. DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. New York State “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX NEW YORK STATE NEW YORK STATE John Bartram’s 1751 diagram of an Iroquois longhouse and the town of Oswego. HDT WHAT? INDEX NEW YORK STATE NEW YORK STATE 1300 Maize agriculture would be being introduced in what would become upstate New York during the 14th century, producing a population surge in the longhouse villages, and bringing other changes as well. The 14th Century would suffer from four periods during which summer temperatures were markedly cooler than average. (The longest of these four cold spells would last for a couple of decades, from about 1343 to about 1362.) Some 4-foot-long metal tubes jammed into the marshy soil and sediment layers at Succotash Marsh in East Matunuck, Rhode Island (at the west side of the ocean entrance of the Narragansett Bay) by Tom Webb of the Geological Sciences Department of Brown University, have revealed that there has been a series of overwash fans created by storm tidal surges, indicating that seven category-three hurricanes have struck Narragansett lowlands in about the past millennium. The first such overwash fan that has been revealed dates to the period HDT WHAT? INDEX NEW YORK STATE NEW YORK STATE John Bartram’s 1751 diagram of an Iroquois longhouse and the town of Oswego. HDT WHAT? INDEX NEW YORK STATE NEW YORK STATE 1295-1407. NEW ENGLAND CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT New York State “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX NEW YORK STATE NEW YORK STATE 1350 By this point the longhouse villages in what would become upstate New York had due to the adoption of maize agriculture become considerably larger, and due to increased warfare had needed to be fortified. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project New York State HDT WHAT? INDEX NEW YORK STATE NEW YORK STATE John Bartram’s 1751 diagram of an Iroquois longhouse and the town of Oswego.