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Liberty Morgenstern isn't a full-blooded coyote; she has some hound blood in her from her father Arthur Morgenstern. Arthur met his wife Luisa while in exile in Mixteca . . .
In exile, you say?
Let me explain.
Arthur hailed from the Republic of New Haven, a small nation that in our universe comprises a roughly 500-square mile strip of the State of Connecticut, including a portion of its Atlantic Coast. Founded in 1781, it never became part of the United States, and was generally regarded as an afterthought or joke because of its size.
New Haven sent a squadron of pilots to fight in the Great War, and its complete failure to get any compensation for this act afterwards precipitated one political crisis after another. It was in this atmosphere that the Communist Party of the People's Will was founded in 1926, adhering to the teachings of Leon Trotsky. The Party's co-founder and ideologist was a former graduate of the New Haven Collegiate School and rabbinical student named - you guessed it - Arthur Morgenstern.
The hound had been chased out of New Haven once before, ending up in Mixteca (our Mexico) sometime in 1916, and got married to a like-minded lapsed Catholic. Liberty was born in 1917, and the family was allowed to return to New Haven in 1924 under a general amnesty.
To say that the Republic's government was stupid in granting amnesty would be an understatement. The nickname of the Party (and the name it's gone by generally ever since) was The Red Fist. It believed in revolution by any means necessary, up to and including the 1929 assassination of the Republic's head of state by a bomb as he sat at a sidewalk cafe.
The Red Fist toppled the government in 1931 and took over, proclaiming the People's Republic of New Haven and governing along somewhat Trotskyite lines (it's a repressive regime, although they say that they'll relax after true communism is established). These lines include the doctrine of permanent revolution, which has other nations, particularly the United States, very nervous.
Liberty was educated primarily by her father, who adopted Loyola's and ancient Sparta's educational techniques. She's ideologically a missionary for the Revolution, morally puritanical, dour, and somewhat lacking in social graces as we generally understand them. She is intelligent, incisive and has a very logical mind. She's only recently discovered young men, so there's some hope for her.
She's shown here at age 21 (1938), posing in front of the Red Fist flag.
Liberty Morgenstern is © Simon Barber, originally done as part of his Spontoon Island story, "Extracts from a Diary" and in greater detail in my serial on the same site, "Luck of the Dragon."
New Haven's history up to the Red Fist Revolt is courtesy of
eocostello
Art done at MFM 2012 by Aiden for
stormdogstudios
In exile, you say?
Let me explain.
Arthur hailed from the Republic of New Haven, a small nation that in our universe comprises a roughly 500-square mile strip of the State of Connecticut, including a portion of its Atlantic Coast. Founded in 1781, it never became part of the United States, and was generally regarded as an afterthought or joke because of its size.
New Haven sent a squadron of pilots to fight in the Great War, and its complete failure to get any compensation for this act afterwards precipitated one political crisis after another. It was in this atmosphere that the Communist Party of the People's Will was founded in 1926, adhering to the teachings of Leon Trotsky. The Party's co-founder and ideologist was a former graduate of the New Haven Collegiate School and rabbinical student named - you guessed it - Arthur Morgenstern.
The hound had been chased out of New Haven once before, ending up in Mixteca (our Mexico) sometime in 1916, and got married to a like-minded lapsed Catholic. Liberty was born in 1917, and the family was allowed to return to New Haven in 1924 under a general amnesty.
To say that the Republic's government was stupid in granting amnesty would be an understatement. The nickname of the Party (and the name it's gone by generally ever since) was The Red Fist. It believed in revolution by any means necessary, up to and including the 1929 assassination of the Republic's head of state by a bomb as he sat at a sidewalk cafe.
The Red Fist toppled the government in 1931 and took over, proclaiming the People's Republic of New Haven and governing along somewhat Trotskyite lines (it's a repressive regime, although they say that they'll relax after true communism is established). These lines include the doctrine of permanent revolution, which has other nations, particularly the United States, very nervous.
Liberty was educated primarily by her father, who adopted Loyola's and ancient Sparta's educational techniques. She's ideologically a missionary for the Revolution, morally puritanical, dour, and somewhat lacking in social graces as we generally understand them. She is intelligent, incisive and has a very logical mind. She's only recently discovered young men, so there's some hope for her.
She's shown here at age 21 (1938), posing in front of the Red Fist flag.
Liberty Morgenstern is © Simon Barber, originally done as part of his Spontoon Island story, "Extracts from a Diary" and in greater detail in my serial on the same site, "Luck of the Dragon."
New Haven's history up to the Red Fist Revolt is courtesy of
eocostelloArt done at MFM 2012 by Aiden for
stormdogstudios
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Portraits
Species Coyote
Size 605 x 823px
File Size 72.4 kB
(For those curious: New Haven didn't merge with Connecticut Colony, in the "real world," until the 1660s, and it wasn't a particularly happy union for a long time, New Haven being Quaker and Connecticut being Congregational. The notion that New Haven might have gone its own way not only in the 1660s but in 1776, while a stretch, isn't impossible.)
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