ASMONE - "Yankee Lore" Video Credits
Too Long for the YouTube Video Description, Public Domain Photo Credits Are Here
My latest video presentation — Ancient Stone Mysteries of New England: “Yankee Lore” — will soon be up on YouTube, if it’s not up already. In this one, I use a lot of Public Domain images, from the Library of Congress and other sources, to help tell the story. And, as a result, for the first time ever one of my video descriptions is longer than YouTube allows.
There will soon be an accompanying article for this video. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments. Thank You!
Video Description and Credits:
You know that stuff "everybody knows" - but isn't true? The cultural equivalent of this in the Northeast of what's now North America is what's called "Yankee Lore"... This is stuff "everybody" in New England "just knows" about the history of the area... but which isn't true. Or, at the very least, which is often inaccurate.
From "Indians around here didn't build with stone", to the Pilgrims, to the myth of the Pristine Wilderness, stone site investigator Mike Luoma looks beyond Yankee Lore to get at a truer picture of the past.
Mike then highlights the work of Ceremonial Stone Landscape Researcher Tim MacSweeney (https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com) who suggests Indigenous landscape caretakers may have used stone fire breaks - stone rows, possibly Serpent Effigy Rows - to check the flames of controlled agricultural burning.
Mike also points out how Yankee Lore seems to even be a problem for some archaeologists... especially when it come to possible Indigenous-built stonework in what's now New England.
Put together with video footage and photos Mike has shot around New England, given the context and the subjects being covered there's also a great deal of third-party material, much from the Public Domain, mostly from the collections of the Library of Congress. In many of these cases, Mike cleaned up the images. Some images were also colored, to break up the monotone grayscale. Free-to-Use videos from Pexels.com were also incorporated. Full Credits follow below for all material, as available. Under each sub-heading, credits are listed in the order of appearance.
Many thanks to researcher Tim MacSweeney for the inspirations behind this video - within are books he's recommended, his theory on the fire breaks, and a ton of knowledge absorbed from his blog, his Facebook Group "Celebrating the Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of Turtle Island", and various references he's shared. Please go to his "Waking Up On Turtle Island" (blog) to learn more.
The Music is by Composer and Performer Kevin MacLeod. Official Music Credits follow below.
Music Credits:
Serpentine Trek by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4337-serpentine-trek
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mourning Song by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4086-mourning-song
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rite of Passage by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4291-rite-of-passage
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Silver Flame by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4362-silver-flame
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Healing by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3860-healing
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Additional Video Credits:
Aerial View of Forest by Kelly from Pexels
https://www.pexels.com/video/aerial-view-of-forest-2491282/
A Child Using A Pencil Writing On A Paper Inside A Classroom by Pressmaster from Pexels
https://www.pexels.com/video/a-child-using-a-pencil-writing-on-a-paper-inside-a-classroom-3209663/
Grass Burning on the Field by Karamvir Jakhar from Pexels
https://www.pexels.com/video/grass-burning-on-the-field-7955459/
Windy Day at The Field by Adrian Hoparda from Pexels
https://www.pexels.com/video/windy-day-at-the-field-4507453/
Additional Photo Credits:
Mashpee Sign
Photo Credit: AP Photo/Steven Senne
Dr. Barry Fell and his book America B.C.
Photo Credits: Barry Fell — The Equinox Project. America B.C. — Pocket Books.
Library of Congress
Public Domain Images
Title: English Puritans escaping to America
Engraving copyright by Johnson, Wilson, & Co., 1874, after E. Leutze.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2022633007/
Title: An Indian welcome on Charles River
Reproduction (half-tone) of painting by R.R. Wand.
Copyright, 1905, by John D. Morris & Company.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2022645505/
Title: The emigration to Connecticut
Date Created/Published: [18--]
"Designed and etched for Bancroft's History of the U. States."
Title: Samoset, the Indian visitor
The early settlers of New England showing Samoset at colonial village.
Engraving from Harpers Monthly, v. 57, 1857.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005688546/
Title: The home of the Gaynor family on a farm near Fairfield, Vermont
Creator(s): Delano, Jack, 1914-1997, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1941 Aug.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017796064/
Title: Struggle of a frontier militiaman with a Mohawk brave
Illustration from: Our pioneers, by Augustus L. Mason, 1904.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94506096/
Title: [Dealing Out the Five Kernels of Corn]
Date Created/Published: [1883]
Published in Augustus L. Mason, The Romance and Tragedy of Pioneer Life, Cincinnati, 1883, p. 123, (Microfilm #53440).
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021630687/
Title: [The Pilgrim fathers holding their first meeting for public worship in North America, Jan. 21, 1621]
Date Created/Published: c1903.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2022635816/
Title: [The burial hill. Plymouth, Massachusetts]
Steel engraving by E. Bandard in Wm. Henry Bartlett, The Pilgrim Fathers, London, 1853. p. 173.
Title: The First Day at Jameston [Va.?]
Published in Augustus L. Mason, The Romance and Tragedy of Pioneer Life, 1883, p. 21. (Microfilm #53440).
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021630686/
Title: Departure of the Mayflower
Date Created/Published: c1910.
Reproduction of painting by Bayes.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2022633578/
Title: Laying out of St. Augustine [Florida]
Date Created/Published: [1876]
Repro. in William C. Bryant, A Popular History of the United States.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021650967/
Title: [A Prospective view of the town of Boston, the capital of New England, and of the landing of troops in the year 1768]
Print by Paul Revere in Edes & Gill's, North American Almnack and Massachusetts Register for 1770. Rare Books Division.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2023633051/
Title: Massasoit and his warriors
Date Created/Published: [1857]
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005688547/
Title: Replica of the 1753 House, a settler's home built in the Berkshire mountains in 1753
Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Date Created/Published: 2019-05-22.
Replica built in 1953 to celebrate town's bicentennial. Field Park, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2019690370/
Title: Uprising of the New England Yeomanry
Reproduction of wood engraving by A. Bobbett after Darley in Lossing, Our Country, 1879.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2022649346/
Title: [Interior of Canadian Indian dwelling; women are weeping over dying warrior in hammock; parrot is perched on rafter]
Illus. in: André Thevet, Les Singularitiés de la France Antarctique, autrement nommé Amerique (Paris 1558), page 86.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002699497/
Title: A Treacherous Indian / J.M. Nevin ; J. Rogers.
Date Created/Published: New York : Virtue, Emmins & Co., c1857.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/91788001/
Title: The figure of the Indians' fort or palizado in New England and the manner of the destroying it by Captayne Underhill and Captayne Mason / RH.
Village of the Pequot Indians which was attacked and destroyed by Captain Underhill and Captain Mason in 1637. Illus. in: Nevves from America / John Underhill. London : Printed by J.D. for Peter Cole, [...], 1638.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001695745/
Title: Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California Other Title: Migrant mother.
Creator(s): Lange, Dorothea, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1936 March.
Summary: Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." Title on print: "Destitute pea pickers in California. A 32 year old mother of seven children."
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017762891/
Wikimedia Commons
Public Domain Images
West view of Hitchcocksville, Barkhamsted
“Connecticut Historical Collections......History and Antiquities of Every Town in Connecticut......2D Ed.; John Warner Barber, 1798-1885; Publisher: Durrie and Peck and JW, 1837."
(Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WestViewOfHitchcocksvilleBarkhamsted.jpg
New England 1665 AD
Map of New England printed by John Seller John in 1675 CE, based on William Reed's original survey of 1665 CE. Original image by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/2675735796
Page of the Durán Codex (1576) w/ Hernán Cortés & La Malinche in Tenochtitlan by Diego Durán
Portrait of John Winthrop
Portrait of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop.
Portrait of James I
Painting of James VI and I wearing the jewel called the Three Brothers in his hat
Date: circa 1605
Author: after John de Critz (died 1641)
Massasoit and governor John Carver smoking a peace pipe
Unknown author
Date: before 1898
King Philip's War - Capture of Brookfield, Massachusetts
Unknown artist
Date: 19th century
Depiction of the Boston Massacre engraved by Paul Revere (1735-1818)
Date: 18th century
Abenaki Couple, an 18th-century watercolor. Artist Unknown. Courtesy of the City of Montreal Records Management & Archives, Montreal, Canada.
John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Public Domain Images.
Image of Native Americans making a dugout canoe using seashell scrapers c. 1590, titled The Manner of Making Their Boates, engraving by Theodor de Bry, after a watercolor by John White.
World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18110/native-americans-make-dugout-canoe-c-1590/.
Malle Barre (Nauset Harbor, Cape Cod, Massachusetts).
Source creator: Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635
Source date: [1613]
notes: Champlain drew the original from which the engraving was made. David Pelletier probably engraved the plate.
le Beau port (Chart of the harbor of Beauport, present-day Gloucester, Massachusetts).
fold-out engraved map. Normalized date: 1613
Source author: Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635 https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/champlain/pages/champlain.html
World History Encyclopedia
Public Domain Images
Map of New France 1612 CE by Samuel de Champlain (1567?-1635 CE).
National Library of France.
Champlain, Samuel de. "Map of New France, 1612 CE." https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12954/map-of-new-france-1612-ce/.
Darley, F.O.C.. "Battle of Bloody Brook, 1675."
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13674/battle-of-bloody-brook-1675/.
Website Screen Captures
MarketWatch
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sen-tom-cotton-complains-revisionist-charlatans-of-the-radical-left-wont-celebrate-the-pilgrims-coming-to-america-2020-11-19
Religion Media Centre
https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/analysis/analysis-we-see-the-warts-of-the-puritan-legacy-but-the-pilgrims-had-a-positive-side-too/
Waking Up On Turtle Island
https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-pristine-myth.html
Fire Break Image: https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2014/09/two-on-burning-as-in-burnt-hill.html
Marlborough, Massachusetts
https://www.marlborough-ma.gov/historical-commission/pages/lords-whipsuppenike
SAGE
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0197693120920492
Flagg Swamp Images and Image Credits
Cover: Ancient Winters (Report)
Image Credit: Massachusetts Historical Commission
Rockshelter Diagrams
Image Credits: Institute for Conservation Archaeology (ICA)/Nancy Lambert-Brown
Rockshelter Dynamited
Image Credit: T.C. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Historical Commission
Cover: Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 67, No. 1
Spring 2006
Image Credit: Massachusetts Archaeological Society
Books
“Changes In The Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England” (1983) nonfiction. By William Cronon.
“1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus” (2005) non-fiction. By Charles C. Mann.
“MANITOU: The Sacred Landscape of New England's Native Civilization” (1989) nonfiction. By James W. Mavor, Jr. and Byron E. Dix.
“Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America” (2023) nonfiction. Edited by Lucianne Lavin, Elaine Thomas.
“Stone Prayers: Native American Stone Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard” (2018) nonfiction. By Curtiss Hoffman
Sheep on a Stone Wall Illustration Made Using DALL-E AI in 2022
Again, an actual accompanying article will soon appear for this video presentation. In the meantime, if you have any questions about the presentation or the credits, please leave them in the comments. Thank You!
Hi Mike -
Really great work on these videos (I shouldn't say "videos" since I've only watched one so far. This area of research is fascinating to me. I live in NE PA close to the NJ border in an older wooded area with many old (very old) stone walls. I've also been examining the rocks (which are everywhere) and have come to similar conclusions.