[VBbuilders] Occupy Stanhope

[Mark Petz]

Sure feel free to put it there. We can always edit it later.
Best is if you share the content you want *first *in a Google doc so we can
see it is OK

markus


On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Thompson, Steve <S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi Franz,
>
> The story from 1818 is here http://bit.ly/v9dksL – this is a
> transcription from an old document. There are some other documents from the
> time here: http://bit.ly/uAXSbO
>
> We only recently discovered that the Battle took place on December 7th
> after a visit to the County Record Office. So the re-enactment is an add on
> to the project which will culminate in a community play in March 2012. I'll
> try to stream this but it is in a Barn so we shall see. Another additional
> feature I have been working on is a soap opera about lead mining with seven
> Primary schools. This will go live in Jan 2012.
>
> The connection we have found between these two communities is fascinating
> and one I would like to explore since the project is about Family learning
> and to add a global understanding to the story. The making of the bullets
>  AND the firing of them and the harm caused at both ends of the equation. I
> looked at that article on DorfWiki and Google translated it – would you
> mind my reconstituting the content on the Drama Dale website with credit to
> the original.
>
> To make sense of this exchange for others here are some of the comments
> from the Ning that sparked our conversation where Franz told me of "Battle
> of Schwarzlackenau"
>
> ===== PASTE====
> STEVE
>
> How interesting Franz. The scene we were re-enacting on Friday
> http://bit.ly/tgUD7G featured 10 year olds doing what 10 year olds did in
> the 1800's which was to mine lead in order to make bullets for the
> Napoleonic wars. I visited a mine on Friday also (see http://bit.ly/rZ408J). 10 year olds would wash and crush lead ore in that area on the "washing
> floor". The conditions there would be bitter and that upright board you see
> was their only shelter from the wind. How odd to think that lead mined in
> one of our communities may have made bullets fired in one of yours.
>
> FRANZ
> It takes the electronic media to discover this. A warm thought to Marshall
> McLuhan up in the Skies, especially for the amazing things he wrote about
> the extension of our nervous system  in "war and peace in the global
> village".
>
> ====END OF COPIED MATERIAL====
>
> From: Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada at reflex.at>
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 08:29:52 +0000
> To: Steve Thompson <s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk>
> Cc: "videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org" <
> videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org>
> Subject: Re: [VBbuilders] Occupy Stanhope
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> still a bit confusing, because the site does not tell about the 7th of
> december, but interesting.
>
> One day there might be videobridgeable history exchange...
>
> as I wrote here (
> http://globalvillages.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2029071%3ABlogPost%3A12903&commentId=2029071%3AComment%3A12704&xg_source=activity
> )
>
> the story sounds familiar to me. We had a similar case as, for the
> revitalisation of our village spirit, we re-enacted in 2009 the "Battle of
> Schwarzlackenau", the first battle (or rather skirmish) where Napoleons
> troups were defeated here in Jedlesee 1809 .
>
> We made the story more realistic to show how "little people" were crashed
> in the feudz of the mighty, sought their own way of escaping and paid a
> high price.
>
> The play was written by Karl Danninger of "Schnittpunkt Jedlesee", the
> local cultural association I had founded here....
>
> see our village diary
> http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Jedlesee/JedleseerDorfTratsch
>
> go to entry of 8.5.2009 !!
>
> Wow we could do a lot that makes sense, rediscovering European history
> from a village perspective is a powerful one.
>
> I found a nice quotation by Norbert Rost, maybe Markus could translate it
> to English:
>
> "
> "Wenn Europa weiter gedeihen soll, braucht es einen neuen Weg, auf dem es
> sich entwickeln kann. Ein solcher Weg wäre, Europa als einen Kontinent der
> Städte und Gemeinden weiterzuentwickeln, statt als Kontinent der Nationen.
> Es sozusagen „von unten“ neu zu begründen. Wir alle leben in Städten und
> Dörfern, sie sind unsere Nester, in denen wir unsere sozialen Netze
> knüpfen. Das Leben von uns Europäern findet nicht in Nationen statt, es
> findet in unseren Häusern statt, in unseren Straßen, unseren Kommunen. Das
> nahe-liegende berührt uns tagtäglich mehr, als es die Entscheidungen weit
> entfernter Regierungen tun."
> "
> one should add: and if it touches us, then it inflicts pain!
>
> here is the full article where the paragraph is taken from:
>
> http://www.regionalentwicklung.de/category/regionalisierung/
>
>
>
> Franz Nahrada
> Hotel Karolinenhof  & GIVE
> Jedleseer Strasse 75
> 1210 Wien
>
>
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