I do believe your thoughts are through certain colored glasses, just as your belief of the books being colored by the winners.Just as the Puritans were not the only ones to come here.

I changed to a higher pitch roof which gave the home a much larger appearance from the curb, I added a glass wagon wheel to the double garage door, I also added to Windows to the side of the garage to give it more light and also give it a different exterior appearance, and an additional amount of flowers and bushes to the front landscape.

Reagan did not repeal Glass Steagal, and lift regulations on a banking cartel.

In addition to paint colors, he also chooses the granite, glass mosaics, etc.

In some areas, the wine is consumed not from glasses, but straight from the bottle, with the bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag ...

I recently renovated an art deco style house where someone had stolen all of the glass doorknobs.

The backsplash is 3 x 6 ice blue glass subway from a local tile store.The hardwood flooring is Lumber Liquidators Grey Mist Bamboo (2.00 per sq ft).

My first rehab was a nightmare, leaky roof, termite damage, full gut in kitchen and both baths, rats in the attic with urine soaked insulation, new hvac, 4 - 40' tall trees to remove, a burst in the main line, not to mention roaches running up my arm.

We are loving the  "I just drove to my secret girlfriend with the lazy eye, and I saw this piece of  nastiness sitting there all boarded up, tall overgrown weed and the house smelled like hummus".

My Daddy grew up there in the 20s and 30s  .. you get high desert weather but in 15 minutes can be in the mountains.. with tall conifers etc..