Of Presidents and Pirates

While I usually blog in the morning after meditation,I find myself curiously blogging this evening.With a televised Harry Potter movie playing in the next room of my cave, I listened
with both ears to the soundtrack while reading about the short history of the city of Philadelphia,PA (USA).Amidst all the recently televised drama of the Somali pirates attacking ships on the high seas,I learned from this evening's readings that four of Captain Kidd's pirate crew were arrested and tried in Philadelphia. Susan Coolidge wrote," In 1699 Captain Kidd was a standing menace to all sea-going people." Coolidge also wrote," In 1717 and 1718 the equally infamous "Blackbeard" was plundering off the coasts of the Middle and Southern States.He is said to have made repeated visits to Philadelphia, and to have been countenanced and abetted by men in respectable repute...On his capture some months after the date of these letters,papers were found on board of his ship which incriminated both the Governor of North Carolina and his accessories in his infamous trade...Their booty was openly sold,the Governor sharing in the spoils."
Since I was now captivated by these accounts,I continued to read Coolidge's work and learned that Ben Franklin was," elected twice as the President of Pennsylvania ". Are you as curious as I am by now? Read about it.Check out this public domain book, A Short History of The City of Philadelphia from Its' Foundation to the Present Time (1880) By Susan Coolidge.
As a mentally-fatigued fictional hoboclown detective, I think I'll now drift off into some imaginary sleep.Who knows what treasures I'll find in dreams ?