EARLY EPISODE: King Philip’s War Part 2: Pockets Full of Grapes

A bit late here, but I think maybe a page of our history books here in MA was dedicated to the war. I'm only really breaking into the history in the past two years. Writing a paper on it for it and good lord, so many of the archives still need to be digitized.

I'd like to the think that the pirate patrols were super easy to hear coming what with their constant shouts of "Yar!" and incessant parrot noise.

So, the idea was to plop down a fortified base and send out small patrols into the countryside to get ambushed. Sounds familiar, eh?

I grew up in Connecticut. While we did learn about this in high school, it wasn't nearly to this level. It was like a footnote in the history of early New England. Though I did know who Metacomet was, because my grandparents lived on a road named after him. In a classic twist of irony, it's an incredibly bourgeois, dead-end street in Farmington, with big, isolated houses on giant lots, all owned by rich white people.

I know a lot of people think of lovely fall foliage when thinking of New England, they don't realize that half of it is basically a giant swamp.

Don't want to be racist, but does anyone else find it weird that a bunch of Englishmen showed up on the continent and then all of the sudden everyone developed a mania for squatting in bogs?

Not me doing a "well ackshually Phyrexian mana can be any color, but just from swamps or you can pay 2 life per Phyrexian mana pip" at Liam.