Desert Snow

Because us corn-fed Georgians get so bent out of shape when we get a little snow, G sent these pictures of her front and back yard in the desert in Nevada to let us know we are not the only ones to get a good dose of rare snow.

By the way, I hummed the title of this post in the same tune that "Wild Flower" was sung.

View from Our Windows & Carport

There is no way I'm getting out today!

Dylan Thomas & Byron Reece

I am currently reading a book about my 4th cousin Byron Hubert Reece, MOUNTAIN SINGER by Raymond A. Cook.

Byron and the I are both descended from John Hunter.

Byron was a farmer and a poet. In the field of written prose and poetry some people consider him a genius. As you know, I’m not qualify to say.

Byron worked up to 18 hours a day to support a meager existence for him and his sickly parents in Union County, Georgia. Writing was only a thing he could do in his little spare time.

Last night we watched the movie EDGE OF LOVE, directed by John Maybury, and written by Sharman MacDonald, about a segment of life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The segment was about how Thomas got through World War II. It appeared he partied all way through it and was drunk most the time.

The movie claimed to be a true account of Dylan Thomas, his wife Caitlin, his life long friend Vera Phillips, and her husband William Killick.

The two poets lived two completely different lives in the same decade (the 40’s). One was partying and got his inspirations over a bottle and the other one got his inspirations over a plow.

I will probably do a book report later on MOUNTAIN SINGER after I am finished, but I just wanted to compare the two poets’ lifestyles. They were both highly regarded.

Inspirations can hatch from different types of environments.

1959 OLYMPIAN, Ads pp206 & 207

One of Us

Last week the car rental people told us the garage next to them would, for a price, look at any car we were considering and tell us if it had any problems.

I picked up a car we were considering and carried it to the garage I mentioned. The owner, a young man, jumped right on it.

I went to the waiting room.

It was about lunch time and three men were eating their lunch. They were mechanics that worked there. At least two others were working. It appeared to be a good size operation.

One of the mechanics asked me what I was reading and he seemed to appreciate a good book.

Then a lady and a toddler came into the waiting room with a fast food sack. She shared what was in the sack with her little boy and one of the mechanics. Apparently, the mechanic and she were married.

The longer I sat there peeking over my book I saw that she also worked there, in the office as bookkeeper and cashier.

The little boy toddler crawled and climbed over everything with the mechanics helping him or guiding his attention to play with things or showing him pictures in the waiting room magazines. One time he looked like one wrong grip and he would topple off a chair onto his head. I held out my arms to serve as a safety net in case he did.

We talked about our wrecked car. They were all car enthusiasts. Which reminds me, on the wall was a poster of a black and white picture taken in the early 50s probably. A car hood was up and around the opened hood along the side fenders and front bumper at least six, maybe seven, people were bent over looking at the engine. You couldn’t see their heads, only their torsos. It was very much like them.

A man came in to pick up his car. The mother/wife/cashier got up and got his ticket and collected his payment. The man announced it was his birthday and he would celebrate it by going hunting for the weekend. He added that the wife wouldn’t like it, but he was going anyway, it was his birthday.

I said, “Ask her when you get back”. He got a kick out of that and all the mechanics jokingly agreed. One of the mechanics said it was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

The owner came in and told me the status of the car. He is a very positive person. I think his smile is there to stay. He asked one of the mechanics eating his lunch did he make out a ticket for me.

The man put down his sandwich, got a clipboard and said, “I’m sorry, I thought you were one of us.”

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! MAD #14 (parts)

This is 3 portions of MAD #14.

1. An EC Fan Club ad. I think publisher EC Willima Gaines reallyl appreciated the EC fans. They were the ones shoveling money to him, moreso, I think, than the average comicbook buyer. They built an EC fan base. When you belonged to it, you felt you were rubbing elbows with your peers who had the same frame of mind as you. The illustration is by Jack Davis.

2. The letter page. EC printed as much letters form the fans as room permitted, praising or critical.

3. As you can tell the story was lampooning a popular TV program on in those black and white days of a smooth talking suave gentleman who talked sweet nothings into the ear of the camera and had a female following. This story reminded me of the time of WAOK Atlanta radio personallity Piano Red who sung sweet nothings - he may not have been sosphicated suave and his sweet nothings came out in the form of the Blues, but the basic plot was the same I think.

The story was written by editor Harvey Kurtzman and the art was by Jack Davis.

My Tyson Genealogy part 36

250. NANCY9 TYSON (CLEMENT8, WILLIAM7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 1862 in , Carroll Co, Ga, and died Unknown. She married HUGH ASHLEY.

More About NANCY TYSON:
Burial: New Hope Primitive Baptist Church Cem, near Villa Rica, Carroll Co, Ga

Child of NANCY TYSON and HUGH ASHLEY is:
i. LILLIE MAY10 ASHLEY97, b. 1896, , , Al; d. Unknown; Adopted child.

Notes for LILLIE MAY ASHLEY:
"Nancy and Hugh adoped Lillie May as a baby in 1896. One cold cnowy morning in 1895, a band of waggoneers known at that time Gypies were passing thru and they approached and handed Aunt Nancy this baby girl, and our aunt agreed to raised her. So she was giving the name Lillie Mae Ashley. No one knows where she came from, but she was not of Gypsy origin. She turned out to be a very fine person, loved by most". Statement in a letter from Lewis L. Tyson to Charles O. Tyson, Sept 15, 1986.

251. OWEN C.9 TYSON (CLEMENT8, WILLIAM7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born Aug 1864 in , Carroll Co, Ga, and died 08 Jan 1940. He married EMILY ALICE MORRIS, daughter of ANDREW MORRIS and S. JANE. She was born 26 Apr 1864, and died 18 Jul 1934.

More About OWEN C. TYSON:
Burial: Winston, , Ga

Children of OWEN TYSON and EMILY MORRIS are:
378. i. EVA MAE10 TYSON, b. 18 Dec 1883; d. 22 Aug 1981.
ii. FANNIE OPHELIA TYSON, b. 08 Apr 1886; d. 1974; m. ZERO BANKS.
iii. MANDY JANE TYSON, b. 09 Apr 1888; d. 1890.
iv. EMMA JOSEPHINE TYSON, b. 23 Oct 1889; d. 26 Nov 1982; m. OWEN GILLAND.
v. VESTER M. TYSON, b. 24 Oct 1891; d. 1968; m. CONNIE ERGLE.
379. vi. BURNETT F. TYSON, b. 17 Oct 1895, , , Ga; d. 17 Aug 1923, , , Ga.
380. vii. FRED OWEN TYSON, b. 05 Feb 1898; d. 29 Aug 1955.
viii. QUENIE BELL TYSON, b. 20 Dec 1900; d. 1975; m. JOE SAMPLES.
381. ix. KATE S. TYSON, b. 25 Aug 1902; d. 1976.
x. RUBY C. TYSON, b. 17 Apr 1904; d. 29 Apr 1984; m. ROBERT W. BLACK.
xi. BABY BOY TYSON, b. 05 Feb 1908; d. 05 Feb 1908.
xii. WILLIAM TYSON, d. 1975.


252. JAMES HORATIO "RACHE"9 TYSON (JOHN HENRY 'JEHU'8, WILLIAM7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 1851, and died 1940. He married FLORENCE MATILDA HAYES.

Notes for JAMES HORATIO "RACHE" TYSON:
They lived most of his married life in Atlanta, Ga.

Children of JAMES TYSON and FLORENCE HAYES are:
i. ESKER10 TYSON98, b. Aft. 1871; d. Unknown.

Notes for ESKER TYSON:
Esker married and moved to Texas.

382. ii. SAMUEL TYSON, b. Aft. 1871; d. Unknown.
383. iii. JOHN TYSON, b. Aft. 1871; d. Unknown.
iv. ELLA TYSON, b. Aft. 1871; d. Unknown; m. A CARTER.

Notes for ELLA TYSON:
No children.

384. v. MATTIE TYSON, b. Aft. 1871; d. Unknown.
385. vi. CORA TYSON, b. Aft. 1871; d. 1967.


253. WILLIAM H. "WILLIE"9 TYSON (JOHN HENRY 'JEHU'8, WILLIAM7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1)99 was born 07 Apr 1854 in , Carroll Co, Ga, and died 21 Apr 1930 in Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga. He married LENORA MAE "LENNIE" HAY, daughter of PATTON HAY and MARY ARMS. She was born 18 Feb 1855 in , , Ga, and died 05 Mar 1927 in Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga.

Notes for WILLIAM H. "WILLIE" TYSON:
Willie was a farmer, raising cotton. He had a syrup mill that produced sorghum syrup also.

More About WILLIAM H. "WILLIE" TYSON:
Burial: Powell Chapel Cemetery, Villa Rica, Carroll Co, Ga

More About LENORA MAE "LENNIE" HAY:
Burial: Powell Chapel Cemetery, Villa Rica, Carroll Co, Ga

Children of WILLIAM TYSON and LENORA HAY are:
386. i. OSCAR PEYTON10 TYSON, b. 11 Apr 1878, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga; d. 31 Jul 1960, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga.
387. ii. MARY ELIZABETH "LIZZIE" TYSON, b. 21 Apr 1879, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga; d. 09 Jun 1959.
388. iii. JOHN THOMAS "TOM" TYSON, b. 21 Jul 1883, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga; d. 26 Sep 1966, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga.
389. iv. FANNIE F. TYSON, b. 10 Oct 1885, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga; d. 11 Mar 1968, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga.
390. v. WILLIAM DAVID "WILL D." TYSON, b. 24 Apr 1891, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga; d. 26 Nov 1971, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., Ga.


254. NANCY "NANNIE"9 TYSON (JOHN HENRY 'JEHU'8, WILLIAM7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 1857, and died Unknown. She married MERREL SHEATS.

Children of NANCY TYSON and MERREL SHEATS are:
i. JOHN10 SHEATS, b. Aft. 1877.
ii. WALTER SHEATS, b. Aft. 1877.
iii. FRED SHEATS, b. Aft. 1877.
iv. LILLIE SHEATS, b. Aft. 1877; m. A DEAN.
v. HUGH SHEATS, b. Aft. 1877.


255. JOSEPH THOMAS9 TYSON (JOHN HENRY 'JEHU'8, WILLIAM7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 12 Feb 1859 in , Meriwether Co, Ga, and died 16 Nov 1934 in Tifton, Tift Co, Ga. He married (1) MARY ELIZABETH "MOLLIE" SWOFFORD, daughter of SOLOMAN SWOFFORD and MARY HEMBREE. She was born 15 Nov 1861, and died 1886. He married (2) LULA L. SWOFFORD, daughter of SOLOMAN SWOFFORD and MARY HEMBREE. She was born 10 Nov 1864, and died 12 Feb 1907. He married (3) POLLY ANN ELIZABETH SWOFFORD Aug 1907 in , , Ga100, daughter of WILLIAM SWOFFORD and OLLIVE DANIELL. She was born 22 Jan 1879 in Douglasville, , Ga, and died 12 Aug 1950 in Tifton, Tift Co, Ga.

Notes for JOSEPH THOMAS TYSON:
At some point, prior to his ordination as an minister in the Pilgrim's Home Primitive Baptist Church in Sycamore, Ga., (6/29/1918), Joseph T. moved his family to Tift County, Ga., according to a family history paper compiled by Robert J. Robinson, husband of Edna Etheleen's daughter Edna Joyce. - THE GEORGIA TYSONS.

Notes for LULA L. SWOFFORD:
The family lost seven of the nine children born to them. Elesa Hembree

More About LULA L. SWOFFORD:
Burial: Powell's Chapel Methodist Cem, Villa Ricca, Ga

Notes for POLLY ANN ELIZABETH SWOFFORD:
Polly was niece to the Josepht's first two wives.

Children of JOSEPH TYSON and MARY SWOFFORD are:
391. i. WILEY MARSON10 TYSON, b. 07 Mar 1880; d. 08 Sep 1954.
392. ii. WARNER H. TYSON, b. 03 May 1881; d. 27 Jul 1930.
393. iii. IDA J. TYSON, b. 19 Oct 1882; d. 17 Nov 1964.
iv. J. HENRY TYSON, b. 24 Apr 1884; d. Unknown.

Notes for J. HENRY TYSON:
He probably died young.

v. M. ADA TYSON, b. 13 Feb 1886; d. Unknown.

Notes for M. ADA TYSON:
Ada probably died soon after birth.


Children of JOSEPH TYSON and LULA SWOFFORD are:
vi. TWO SETS OF TWINS10 TYSON.

Notes for TWO SETS OF TWINS TYSON:
Born dead.

394. vii. WALTER TYSON, b. 22 Feb 1887; d. 02 Aug 1945.
395. viii. NORA TYSON, b. 26 Aug 1888; d. 20 Mar 1979.
ix. JODY TYSON, b. 01 May 1890; d. Unknown, , Douglas, Ga.

Notes for JODY TYSON:
Jody drowned in the Dog River when he was small. - Elesa Hembree

More About JODY TYSON:
Cause of Death: Drowned

396. x. JOHN D. TYSON, b. 30 Aug 1891; d. 19 May 1952.
xi. WILLIAM EDWARD TYSON, b. 11 Feb 1893; d. 12 Oct 1918.

Notes for WILLIAM EDWARD TYSON:
William was a sergeant in the Army and was apparently killed in action during WWI. Elesa Hembree

397. xii. OSCAR TYSON, b. 24 Aug 1895; d. 19 Apr 1977.
xiii. QUEENIE BELLE TYSON, b. 31 Aug 1897; d. Bef. 1900.
xiv. BILLIE TYSON, b. Aft. 1897; d. Aft. 1897.
xv. M.M. TYSON, b. 28 Jan 1904; d. Unknown.

Notes for M.M. TYSON:
Died young.

398. xvi. LOIS TYSON, b. 07 Feb 1905; d. 1979.
399. xvii. BRUCE TYSON, b. 28 Jul 1906.


Children of JOSEPH TYSON and POLLY SWOFFORD are:
400. xviii. RAYMOND10 TYSON, b. 09 Jan 1909.
401. xix. WESLEY TYSON, b. 05 Jan 1910; d. 16 Nov 1979.
402. xx. HOWARD TYSON, b. 11 Jun 1911; d. 22 Nov 1946.
403. xxi. RUBY MAE TYSON, b. 15 Jan 1913; d. 26 Aug 1955.
404. xxii. JEHU TYSON, b. 19 Jun 1914, , Douglas Co, Ga; d. 15 Mar 1991, Tifton, Tift Co, Ga.
405. xxiii. BUFORD BEATON TYSON, b. 20 Oct 1915; d. 14 Feb 1968.


256. SUSAN ALICE9 TYSON (JOHN HENRY 'JEHU'8, WILLIAM7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 1861, and died Unknown. She married (1) JOHN HENRY BOYD 09 Dec 1880, son of DAVID BOYD and JOANNE WILLIAMS. He was born 27 Jul 1856, and died 11 Oct 1882. She married (2) JOHN BUTLER Aft. 1884. He was born 19 Dec 1866, and died 20 Jul 1900.

Child of SUSAN TYSON and JOHN BOYD is:
406. i. BESSIE B.10 BOYD, b. Aft. 1880; d. Abt. 1930.


Children of SUSAN TYSON and JOHN BUTLER are:
ii. ANNIE MAE10 BUTLER101, b. Aft. 1884; d. Unknown.
iii. NANCY "NANNIE" BUTLER, b. Aft. 1884; d. Unknown; m. A KEMP.
iv. OLLIVE B. BUTLER, b. Aft. 1884; d. Unknown.


257. IDA F.9 TYSON (JOHN HENRY 'JEHU'8, WILLIAM7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 1863, and died 1921. She married AUSTIN "BUD" POPE, son of JOHN POPE and MARY BOYD. He died 1918.

Notes for IDA F. TYSON:
According to family tradition, Ida planted thrift on Bud's grave; members of the family periodically transplant from this original thrift plant. - Barbara Baggett Dilbeck, Lilburn, Ga.

Notes for AUSTIN "BUD" POPE:
Bud was descended from John Pope, one of the founding landowners of Atlanta. Tradition holds that John moved his family to Atlanta in the 1820's; by 1850 he had sold the land that became the present Little Five Points. He had also been instrumental in starting Utoy Springs Church near Ft. McPherson. John had three sons, to whom he left part of Atlanta. To Bud Pope's grandfather, Henry, was left the area between I-85 and Northside Drive. Henry later sold to the State for the campus of Georgia Tech, along with 4-1/2 acrews that became the site of the Peter's Mansion; this property is now home to the President of the University.
While living in Carroll County, Bud owned a cafe and was a policeman in Villa Rica. Around 1907, the family moved back to Atlanta. Bud became a "train caller"
- THE GEORGIA TYSONS book.
Children of IDA TYSON and AUSTIN POPE are:
i. JAMES LEE10 POPE, b. Apr 1888; d. Unknown; m. GEORGIA HILDERBAND.

Notes for JAMES LEE POPE:
James was a mounted policeman at Five Points, in Atlanta. No children. Elesa Hembree

ii. HAZEL EUNICE POPE, b. 24 Jun 1890; d. 03 Oct 1960; m. ORLANDO CARL HOLMES, 12 Jun 1910.

Notes for HAZEL EUNICE POPE:
Eunice was a store detective in downtown Atlanta. Later she and Carl owned and operated Economy drycleaners near downtown. No children. - THE GEORGIA TYSONS

407. iii. JESSIE POPE, b. 29 Oct 1892; d. 1972.
iv. RALPH POPE, b. 18 Mar 1902.

Notes for RALPH POPE:
Never married.


258. SOLOMAN "SOL"9 TYSON (JOHN HENRY 'JEHU'8, WILLIAM7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 1865, and died Unknown. He married FANNIE MORRIS.

Children of SOLOMAN TYSON and FANNIE MORRIS are:
408. i. JOHN GROVER10 TYSON, b. Aft. 1880; d. Unknown.
ii. GRADY TYSON, b. Aft. 1880.
409. iii. JODY TYSON, b. Aft. 1880; d. Unknown.
410. iv. LESTER TYSON, b. Aft. 1880; d. Unknown.
v. HATTIE BERNICE TYSON, b. 18 Jan 1884; d. 04 Nov 1984; m. OLLIVE ABNER NALLEY, 07 Sep 1924.

Notes for HATTIE BERNICE TYSON:
No children. Bernice lived 100 years.

More About HATTIE BERNICE TYSON:
Burial: Hillcrest Cemetery, Villa Ricca, Carroll Co., Ga

411. vi. ADA TYSON, b. Aft. 1885; d. Unknown.


259. ELLA IRENE9 TYSON (ANDREW JACKSON8, JOEL7, JEHU6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, MATHIAS3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 24 Jun 1889, and died 1972. She married (1) J. ERNEST ROBERTS 10 Nov 1907 in , Tate Co, Ms. He was born 17 Jun 1886, and died 18 Jan 1913. She married (2) WILLIAM PERRY FRANKS 1916 in Strayhorn, , Ms. He died Jan 1935.

Child of ELLA TYSON and J. ROBERTS is:
i. GLADYS VELINE10 ROBERTS102, b. 29 Aug 1910; d. 29 Nov 1986; m. CLARENCE TURNER FRANKS; b. 27 Nov 1901; d. 20 Dec 1976.


Children of ELLA TYSON and WILLIAM FRANKS are:
412. ii. CHARLIE WILLIAM "C.W."10 FRANKS, b. 03 Oct 1916; d. 19 Jan 1976.
413. iii. MATTIE IRENE FRANKS, b. 1920; d. 1976.

1959 OLYMPIAN, Ads 204 & 205

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you too Monty!

Unprepared

Sorry. Due to car wrecks, doctors visits, and shopping for a car I am totally unprepared.




I once told a teacher I was unprepared and you should have seen the look on her face. Man! I wish I had a camera.

1959 OLYMPIAN, Ads, 202 &203

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BONNIE!!!

WHAM!

We were driving south Canton Highway yesterday. We were about in front of the Kyrstal when the car in front of me suddenly stopped. I slammed on my brakes and came to a quick stop just behind him. He stopped because people in front of him stopped.

Whew! I felt like I just avoided a rear end collision.

Then the next moment:

WHAM!!

Anna instantly asked me was I OK. And I asked her the same. Apparently neither of of us are hurt. That is the most important thing.

We were rear-ended by a truck.

The impact of the truck made us hit the car stopped in front of us.

We three drivers got out, looked it over and decided it was best for us to pull over in the parking lot of the shopping center across the street to let the traffic continue to flow. We drove into the parking lot.

We got out again. It was raining. What happened to my cap? My bald head was getting wet. I looked in front seat of the car and it wasn’t there. Then I went to the curb and looked where we were standing at the spot of the wreck and it wasn’t there. I told the man I hit I didn’t know what happened to my cap and he said look in the back seat. I did, and there it was. That is a little experiment with inertia energy.

The man that hit me said he just couldn’t stop in time. He was driving a laundry truck.

I looked at the car that I hit and our front bumper. Neither one had too much damage. Then I looked at our back - it looked like an accordion. And the guy that hit me, his laundry truck didn’t look too bad.

Anna called the police from her cell phone. They were on their way.

The policeman came in a black car. Cobb County Police cars are generally white. Black police cars are members of the Swat Team. I suppose they are black so they will stand alone in recognition, that way they can get trough to the center of trouble quickly. The policeman also had a patch on his shoulder that said “Swat Team”.

After he started interviewing us suddenly he turned around quickly and asked an elderly gent nosing around his black police car could he help him. I think he had keen senses to even realize the guy was there, it must be the Swat in him. The man said could he do something about a car that is parked sideways over two handicapped parking places. He told the man he would get to him in a minute. He was staying focused.

When I told him I was hit from behind and then hit the car in front of me he said, “A ricochet huh?” Up until then I didn’t think of it as a ricochet but he was right. It took a marksman to put in terms I understood.

He took each of our insurance card and our drivers license and retired to his car and wrote it all down and ran it in the computer in the front seat with him. He came back and handed out licenses and insurance papers back to two of us but the guy that hit me he told him to step over to his car with him.

From our point of view it looked like he filled out a form on a pad and pulled a copy off and gave to him. I think he got cited. Or you might say he got "sighted" by a Swat Man.

He said we could go. Our car is not drivable. Well, it drives but the right rear blinker does not work, and well, the car looks like a wreck….. get it? A wreck? Stick with me, I got a million of ‘em!

As soon as we got home Anna got on the phone and talked to our insurance company and adjusters. They were very polite and congenial.

Here we go again.

1959 OLYMPIAN, Ads pp 200 & 201

GOBAGs Drink and Look at Each Other

I was thinking during our meeting last night we were all young once. We were little and we had our our little neighbor friends we played with and we did funny little things. Just like the Little Rascals.

Now we are old with sagging faces but we have our memories!

Our group is a loosely held group that mostly knew each other in our formative years. Now, we know each other in our oxidizing years.

As you can tell by our voices we meet in a helium-filled room; a Helium Den!

1959 OLYMPIAN, ads

A Tribute to Arnold

On TV years ago there was a llittle wimpy character named Arnold. Well, in no way will he be confused with our friend Arnold.

Our friend Arnold has been a little under the weather lately. He will bounce back fully energized any minute now.

1959 OLYMPIAN - ads

BOOK REPORT: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

This is part book review and part movie review; a combo review.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson is a book of mystery and intrigue.


It is the first of three novels, which I think are all connected – by George, it must be trilogy- or is it? The author, Stieg Larsson died not long after the three books were written. Did he have more in mind to come?

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO takes place in Sweden. Before you start reading you need to turn around, do a mind adjustment, like comedians that imitate do, turn back around and think in a Swedish state of mind.
I must admit that I got totally confused over some of the last names. Some were very similar and some was just hard to remember. I should have jotted down the names as I went.

The present time in the book is in the 2000s, but it is based on a single disappearance of a teenage girl in 1966 (don’t hold me to that year).

After a journalist of a labor or leftist magazine was being successfully sued for libel a retired aging Swedish industrial, who appreciated his investigative work, hired him to find out what happened to his niece or who killed her almost 40 years ago.

The investigation deals with the Nazi Youth Groups and other hate groups. It also deals a lot with sexual abuse, of dominant men that deep down are whack-o’s.

It is also about a very intelligent introverted young little lady who doesn’t take shit off anybody, especially male ego-maniacs By the title of Larsson’s other two books, I think she continues her super mysticism in those as well.

The paperback book is 590 pages. Yesterday I reached 340 pages and read something in it that completely flip-flopped my take on the book. “Did I get one of the Swedish names confused?” I thought to myself. And , “Am I going to have to start over to get it straight who’s who?”

Then, like magic, the answer came before me. Anna was surfing on NETFLIX’s site and came across THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO available to download and watch right then. Which we did.

In the movie everybody jabbered the Sweden language. But luckily, there were subtitles.

The movie, I think, stuck to the main theme and story line, but it did do a gumbo soup with events, as in the sequence of events. I suppose the story line and outcome was not damaged. I know I am not going back to read it to verify it stuck true to the rest of the book.

Would I read it again? I already said above I wouldn't. But, I think I want to take on the next one in sequence, whether it is the book or the movie.

1959 OLYMPIAN - advertisers - begin

In case you don't recognize it, it is Town and Country Shopping Center when it was new and it looks like Joe McTyre with the camera.

Today in History CSA Genreral Longstreet Died

Today in history CSA General James Longstreet died, January 2, 1904. He was very active Civil War general. Reading briefly over his Civil War battles, he seemed to be present at all the better known or big ones. He had Georgia connections, as in getting his educaiton in Augusta and dying in Gainesville.

His 2nd wife was Helen Dortch Longstreet. They married in 1897, she was 34 and he was 76. In later years she was famous, in her own way. During the Bell Bomber Days in Marietta she was hired for as a riveter on the assembly line.

It appears that Mrs. Longstreet (1862-1963) felt it was more important to socialize than do actual work at the plant. She also had the direct telephone lines of everybody who was anybody, which included the president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. When things didn’t go her way she would simply make a call and suddenly the manager who was demanding work from her would either be transferred someplace else or, I heard, even fired.




Helen Dortch Longstreet, other than her Bell Bomber days, was well known for getting CSA memorials at Civil War sights.

She lived 99 years.

SUNDAY FUNNIES - BELTS N' CELTS!

FRONT LINE COMBAT’S BELTS N’ CELTS, illustrated by John Severin and written by Harvey Kurtzman, is a jolly old war story featuring the British, Irish, and the Scottish soldier and how sometimes they clashed. BELTS N’ CELTS reminds me of STEAK AND SHAKE – they clash too. TALLY HO!

Here We Go Into the New Year!

Enjoy!