Night Cat is a super-budget brand of tent that you can find on Amazon. When I say, “super-budget”, I mean dirt cheap - like as low as $40 dirt cheap. But I have several of them that Amazon sent me to review, and they really are not bad at all. They have interesting designs and are full featured. Of course, it would be prudent for anybody buying one of these tents to do your own thorough waterproofing on the seems as well as spraying the surface.
Here is one particular tent by Night Cat that has the pole structure on the outside, I think it’s pretty clever. The rain fly and the inner net mesh is separated, but pitches all together. Pretty nifty.
The school textbooks tell you the settlers crossed the Atlantic for religious freedom.
Some of them did, partly. What the textbooks leave out is the thing that sits in the actual letters, in the sailors' accounts, in the merchant pamphlets circulating in English ports from the 1580s onwards: a major reason people came to America was the wild game. Meat you could take. Meat nobody owned. Meat that walked into camp.
For a population legally separated from the animal for five hundred years, this was the whole pitch.
Consider what they were leaving.
A family in a Devon cottage in 1618 eats pottage. Oats, barley, an onion, whatever greens grew near the back door. No meat in it this week. No meat in it last week. There will be meat in it on Christmas Day, God willing, if the chicken is still alive by then. The deer in the forest at the end of the lane have been the king's property under the Forest Laws since 1066. Taking one is a hanging offence. The father has never taken one. His father never took one. The institutional...
