FICTIONKatharine Parr, The Sixth Wife by Alison WeirHaving sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixe
This piece on alcohol and the human fixation on it is interesting throughout and/because it includes the sentence: "For an illustration of what followed, I direct you to the film Dazed and Confused."
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The Atlantic
Just How Bad Is America’s Drinking Problem?
A little alcohol can boost creativity and strengthen social ties. But there’s nothing moderate, or convivial, about the way many Americans drink today.
This article was published online on June 1, 2021.
Few things are more American than drinking heavily. But worrying about how heavily other Americans are drinking is one of them.
The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock because, the crew feared, the Pilgrims were going through the beer too quickly. The ship had been headed for the mouth of the Hudson River, until its sailors (who, like most Europeans of that time, preferred beer to water) panicked at the possibility of running out before they got home, and threatened mutiny. And so the Pilgrims were kicked ashore, short of their intended destination and beerless. William Bradford complained bitterly about the latter in his diary that winter, which is really saying something when you consider what trouble the group was in.