Ah Mateys', as thou salt mist fills the air, Nope!
This AIN'T racing related per sei...
Dagg Nabit! Just cannot stop Thyself!
Especially when I've got more important matters to attend, like swabbing thou proverbial
Decks...
Yet carrying on in my current Seafaring
theme, whilst simply unable to type fast enough, especially since my nucelz'
keep getting in the way; Hya! Another rogue wave's sent me another message in a
bottle.
As I'm sitting on various Seafaring Yarns here in Nofendersville, which all seem
connected, having begun the year by listening to a fantastico book about the
ill fated USS Jeanette
trapped in the Polar Ice. during the race to discover the North Pole by Sea
As the Jeanette's mission was backed by Publishing
Tycoon James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Yeah,
that Bennett, as in the Gordon Bennett Cup races!
As who'd Ah Thunk
It! That Messer Bennett would have preceded Jay PISSENBOOTZ' Penske's antics by
over a century in New York, leading to his permanently moving abroad No less!
Not to mention a nebulous Lusitania connection,
whilst learning of another famous person who died aboard the infamous Titanic,
courtesy of 'Ol Fathead Jay Leno, when piloting his Mercer Raceabout to tie-in
with his driving Scotty the "Iceman" (2.0) Dixon's Indy Car sled at
Phoenix International Raceway.
Yet instead, this is about the unheard of
Harvard neurobiologist
and explorer S. Allen Counter, who I've only learned about after his passing at
the relatively young age of 73. As he sounds like he was a truly fascinating
& inspiring person!
Dr. Samuel Allen Counter, Jr., who grew up in the segregated
city of Boynton Beach, Florida, who'd been
fascinated with the mystery Black explorer Matthew A. Henson, ultimately set
about restoring Henson's rightful place in history, Dovetailing with his work
in Greenland, studying the
Inuit's hearing losses, and ultimately leading to discovering the descendants of Henson' and Peary's.
Having
subsequently recounted his adventures in his 1991 book
titled North
Pole Legacy: Black, White and Eskimo, which sounds quite
interesting.
As I'm presuming the name of fabled North
Pole explorer
Robert
E. Peary and his 1909 Arctic expedition to the top 'O the world's known,
but who, including Thyself has ever heard of Matthew A. Henson?
And while History recognized Peary for then
discovering the North Pole, albeit by land, not sea, it was actually Henson who
got there some 45mins ahead of the esteemed Peary, for which Henson described in his
1912 memoir, 'A Negro
Explorer at the North Pole, noting how Peary rebuffed his attempted hand shake
culminating their momentous achievement...
