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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 — The following items ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1999 — The New Hampshire Gazette resumes regular (fortnightly) publication in Portsmouth.” “1989 — New Hampshire Secretary of State for Life William Gardner assigns legal ownership of The New Hampshire Gazette to the current editor.” The Occupy Movement has issued this call for a General Strike today: “We ask you to do one of two things to commemorate this day: Don’t like what you do? Don’t do it. Take one day to do something you love, instead. Love what you do? …

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Monday, April 30, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1894 — Five hundred unemployed workers led by Jacob Coxey arrive in Washington, D.C. from Massilon, OH, demanding work.” The collapse of the publicly-subsidized, Congressional-bribe dispensing U.S. railroad industry in 1893 knocked the rest of the national economy into the worst depression to date, with unemployment rising to 18 percent. Hundreds of scruffy-looking individuals took this unfortunate circumstance as an excuse to sully the Capitol. Authorities arrested them the next day for walking on the grass.

Sunday, April 29, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1975 — In Vietnam, the last Americans leave.” Among other losses: the opportunity to learn from a mistake.

Saturday, April 28, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “2004 — The Securities and Exchange Commission votes unanimously to let investment banks risk far more money and keep far less in reserve. What could possibly go wrong?” At right: William H. Donaldson, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission 2003 – 2005, who said on April 28, 2004, in reference to the above decision: “If we do this wisely, and we and our fellow regulators listen to and learn from each other, we will help the investing public by using …

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Friday, April 27, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1974 — Ten thousand people march in Washington, D.C. for the impeachment of Richard Nixon.” While Richard Nixon hid at Camp David, poring over transcribed records of his misdeeds, the Youth International Party and the National Campaign to Impeach Nixon marched — or, more likely strolled — up Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol. Leading the parade was an Edsel “with a vice presidential seal on its side and drawing a cage with a figure representing Nixon behind the bars.” Unable to …

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Thursday, April 26, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1865 — Boston Corbett, a hatter-turned-cavalryman who, seven years earlier, castrated himself with a pair of scissors to better withstand the temptation of prostitutes, shoots and kills John Wilkes Booth.” Ah, how far we have come from the olden days, when all sorts of bizarre individuals carried on peculiar lives deeply affected by fanatical religious impulses … What’s that you say? It’s wrong of us to suggest that the human impulse towards spirituality is in any way responsible for Boston Corbett‘s …

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