New CoSCA Headquarters in North Carolina

[Highlander31]

Thanks for posting the article, Alex. That is something that is sorely needed here.

There has been a movement to rewrite American history for several decades (which has accelerated since 2009) minimizing and in some cases eliminating the contributions made to this country by Europeans and Northern Europeans (and yes, according to DNA marking, they are different.)

My Scottish ancestors arrived in San Francisco in the mid 1800's. They worked hard with others to build a town into a city, and to help bring a state into being. Yet now, a lot of the work those Scottish immigrants did has been erased from the collected memory of the Bay Area.

For centuries, the Americas were classified as three separate continents; North America, Central America, and South America. Then in the late '90's, for political reasons, Central America was erased from the maps. Mexico became part of North America, while everything else became South America.

Without the work of the CoSCA and other groups to help preserve what those early Scots did to help found and build this country, the work and accomplishments of those brave hardworking men and women will be relegated to the same dustbin of history Central America was put into.