I Can't Help But Listen To The Rain When It's Raining

Is Massachusetts in New England? I never ever wrote the nsme Massachusetts before! Old England is pretty wet. My country is what the English call wet! They make jokes about our weather! @4meAndyou

@Hepsie Yes, in New England, and our climate is very similar to that of old England, (perhaps a little bit warmer and with less fog). Massachusetts is an Indian name, and there was once a tribe of that name. The Wampanoag Indians were the original inhabitants of this region before the first English settlers killed and enslaved all of them.

@4meAndyou The Indians got them back though by building casinos and taking all their money

@xixgun Yup. I also volunteered at a womens drug rehab shelter which was located (for a short time) on Rte 105 in Middleborough in an old farm house. I once took the little kids I was watching on a little walking field trip down the street, where a huge granite stone hearth and part of a stone chimney were all that was left of a house built by a farmer in the 1600's and they were all killed by Indians and the farmhouse burned to the ground with them in it.

There was a ladybug on the stones, and I started to recite the ladybug poem to the children....and then I realized where I was standing and what I was saying.

We have history of what tne English did to us! @4meAndyou

@Hepsie Yes, back in the old days they were SO mean!

But so was almost everyone else back in the bad old days.

Yes. You are right. Harri Tudur (Henry VII) was Welsh. He travelled round Wales rounding up soldiers and stayed with the gentry overnight and slept with the maids. And that’s the reason I exist! And he went to England and killed Richard III and took the throne. Perhaps it was ok in those days but I am not sure. I am not sure that a lot of what happens now is ok. And I am not sure it will ever be ok before the world comes to an end. @4meAndyou

@Hepsie My father spent quite a long time trying to prove our family were distant cousins to the Tudor Kings.

He was right to do so! @4meAndyou

@Hepsie You and I might be extremely distant cousins! 😂

Maybe. But I am definitley a grand daughter of Harri ....VII? @4meAndyou