Rainy Day Rant

I have always have had a keen interest in the history of the area that I grew up in. That of course all started when I was living in Ryal Side in Beverly from there it expanded to just about all of New England. As a student in the Beverly school system I was mediocre at best. I was always that inept student who was daydreaming or looking out the window. The only class that would pique my interest was history, and those classes had absolutely no feel at all for local history. I am sure the only reason I graduated from Beverly High school was the school systems philosophy of keep them moving, to make room for the next crop of dullards. My history teachers introduced me to many country and world events, but I could have taught them a thing or two about Beverly and the surrounding area. This knowledge I acquired by hounding the old timers of the community with my persistent questions of why things where named the way they were and what things were like when they were young.
To this day it amazes me how many people know very little about the area they live in. When Bill Nesbitt one of my childhood friends posted on Facebook a utube video that was resplendent with local history, I thought everyone would love it as much as I. However much to my dismay it hardly created a ripple. The way I see it, other people must know all this history and therefore it is old hat to them or it is more than likely just apathy. I should have known better, this educational video is lengthy and most FB users use the media with strategic sorties of rumor innuendos and doctored videos to push their personal agendas. That may be a bit harsh as there is a lot of good and interesting postings and photos, but Facebooks cover photo could very well be the Pied Piper. The utube I am referring to is titled “No Country for Old Buildings” This is a television show on the Beverly Community Access Media which highlights historic preservation. As I stated before I am a little on the slow side so entering the right key word of praise when using a search engine escapes me and makes my historical searches difficult and almost to the point of nonexistence. But as I watch different episodes of this show I find myself constantly scribbling down notes that I will use on future Google searches.