Mrs. McCollum's 3rd Grade Class at Waterman Street School, c1950

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Waterman street School, Mrs  Jesse McCollum's 3rd grade class.

All Left to Right:

1st Row:  Marvin Grant, Eddie Hunter, ? , Tony Partain, ?, ? , Walker Gaines,  and Archie Richardson.

2nd Row:  Robert Martin, ?, Frankie Holder, Van Calloway, ? , Sam Carsley, Larry Southern, and Jerry Flowers.

3rd Row:  ? , ? . Jo Ann Mitchell,  Pat Rainwater, ?, ? , Betty Edwards, and  Janice Benson

4tn Row:  ? , ? , ? , Alice Tibbits, Donna Le Vann,  Janice Belmore,  Elizabeth Hawthorne, and Gresham Howren.

Back:  Mrs. McCollum with her hands on Donna LeVann's shoulders.

If you recognize any names to be filled in or any mistakes to be corrected, please let me know.  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPE!!

Today is the Pope's birthday.   As I already announced it also Anna's birthday.  Its a Small World! 

Anna - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I LOVE YOU!

Donna Mullinax

Donna Mullinax, Bell Reunion 2006

I just received a call from a friend telling me our friend Donna Mullinax had died.

?s Replaced! or The Redo

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I put this same picture (Mrs Killenbeck's 2nd grade class at Waterman Street School) on the other day  with names, but a lot I had ? because I didn't remember.   Thanks to anonymous I have been recharged. 
1st row from right to left:
Edward Bennett, Richard Hopkins, Tommy Coyle, Shirley Prisset, Walker Gaines, Janice Benson, Eddie Hunter, Tony Partain*, Robert Martin, Janice Carroll, Gresham Howren
2nd row from right to left:
Archie Richardson, Marvin Grant, Brenda Reid, Alice Tibbitts, Peggy Rainwater, Billie Dobbins, Jerry Flowers, Joe Budd, Janice Belmore, Elizabeth Hawthorn, Samuel Carson
3rd row from right to left:
Mrs. Charles Killingbeck, P??? Smith, Linda Sue Nalley, June Metcalf, Helen Barrett, Frankie Holder, Tony Heath, Grant Evans, Dickie Hudgins

*How could I not remember Tony Partain?  He lived around the corner and one year I was a guest to his birthday party and broke his new wood burning kit.

Tuba Skinny Playing 'GARBAGE MAN" Apr 8, 2013

Facebook Reject

The below post was posted on Facebook first.  It got no like or dislike, no recognition at all.  I said to myself, "I'll show them!"  Isn't that what the Mad Scientist said?

NEW PROPOSED PUBLIX COMMERCIAL: You know how heartwarming those Christmas Publix commercials are? They get you right here (me pointing to my heart). But do you remember them? The details? Truthfully, to me they all sort of blend in. I think you might more likely remember the commercial if it went more like a reality program: First of all the kids were disappointed over what Santa brought them and start crying and cursing (which is beeped out), then the mother blames it all on the father why they couldn't afford any better presents and then the father gets mad and starts shouting and cursing (beeped out) and then the mother picks up the beautiful turkey on the dining room table and is about to throw it at the husband and he says, "Wait! We bought that beautiful bird at Publix!" and then the wife gently puts it down and the camera focuses in on the beautiful turkey. No one is smiling but the teenage daughter and her sleazy uncle because they are playing footsies under the table.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! TRUMPS' Toys

Be sure and click each image to be able to read it.

Of course this article is dated.  It was published in the 1950s in short lived TRUMP Magazine. - what no electronic toys?  Art by Al Jaffee and it was probably written by editor Harvey Kurtzman.

Christmas at Georgia's Governor's Mansion

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On our anniversary, December 9, 2011, we visited the Governor's Mansion, during their open house during the Christmas season.  Why not?   It is the people's house - so they say.

This is an unabashed try to get more mileage out of my photos, or you could say I am recycling the pictures.

Just as we walked into the Governor's Mansion  to greet us was Georgia's First Lady, Sandra Deal.

They had Christmas trees, and some more Christmas trees.  After I photographed about a half dozen or so, I came to the conclusion they all looked nice but if you see one finely decorated tree you have seen them all.

They had several rooms of chamber music and in the basement they had young people's choirs; lined up per school, and all singing great Christmas music when their turn came.  And that was also the room for cookies and hot chocolate.

These are ginger bread men in the basement.  Interesting, as a thumbnail it looked like The Last Supper. They all looked so delicious.  I was about to decapitate one but a guard was looking nervously at me and having his right hand near his holster.  Just kidding.

  

Octavia "Tade" Tyson Carr

My great aunt Octavia "Tade" Tyson Carr (1886-1957).  By the body language I think the lady on the right is Tade.   Tade was prideful,  and strong personality- Bellowing personality comes to find..  By her pictures she also appeared judgmental.   We used to use her house as a pickup and drop off point when we went to Acworth Beach.  I was either too young or just didn't care to let her judgmental way interfere with my loose way.  Here she is at the Confederate Memorial in the Confederate Cemetery in Marietta.

Mrs Killenbeck's 2nd Grade Class at Waterman Street School, c1948

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c1948, Waterman Street School, Mrs. Killenbeck's 2nd Grade Class:

1st Row:  Gresham Howren, Elizabeth , ? , Robert Martin, ?, Eddie Hunter , Janice Benson, Walker Gaines, Pat Rainwater (maybe), ?, ?, and ?.

2nd Row:  Sam Carsley, Elizabeth Hawthorne,  ____ Belmont,  ?, Jerry Flowers,  ?,  ?, Alice Tibbits, JoAnn Somebody maybe,  Marvin Grant,  and Archie Richardson

3rd Row:  ?, ?,  Tony Hester,  Frankie Holder, ?, ?, ?, ?, and Mrs. Killenbeck.

The Red Door

What is behind the Red Door?  Why a Red Door? 

This old building with the red door is on Blackwell Road near the corner of Shallowford Road.

I thought the door stood out so, I took a picture of it one day several  years ago.   Last week apparently someone thought the same as I.   As I rode by I saw a yuppie couple taking pictures of their two children in front of the red door, maybe for Christmas Cards.

Jack Davis and TV GUIDE

  Jack Davis is fellow Georgian.  He was one of the four original artists of MAD Comicbook and other EC comic books (TALES OF THE CRYPT, etc)  .He also has illustrated a lot for TV GUIDE;  Which is what the below link is all about.  Not only do you get to see great art, but a travel through time via you own memory of TV Shows.    Enjoy:


http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2011/06/jack-davis-covering-tv-guide.html

Anna and Anna Ruby

Forty-six  years ago, this date,  Anna and I were married at Noonday Baptist Church.  It was the best thing I ever did up to that point.  From then on the best thing I ever did was listen to her suggestions.

Some newlyweds go to Niagara Falls for their honey moon.  However, we are more moderate  in our travels, so we went to Anna Ruby Falls.  The falls are in Unicoi State Park, just a couple of miles outside of Helen.  We spent a week in a cabin there, only venturing out a few times to visit Helen, Georgia.

In 1967 Helen was not a misplaced Alpine Village nestled  in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  It was just a little small town near the beginning of the Chattahoochee River, enjoyably secluded and not many people.

I love Anna more and more each day.

Woodstock Bluegrass Jamboree Dec 7, 2013

This is not THE WOODSTOCK that most of today's music fans think of, but just plain Woodstock, deep down in Georgia, almost 30 miles north of Atlanta.

This video shows the first band HICKORY WIND, which is the visiting band and after that is the host band THE JOT 'EM BOYS.

There are only bits and pieces of some of the songs.  Just enough to make you envious of what you missed.

Enjoy!

SUNDAY FUNNIES!!! THE SPIRIT, The Interview

THE SPIRIT by Will Eisner

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Today In History: The Shit Hit The Fan

December 7, 1941, the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii, which was an invitation for us to jump into World War II, which we did.  Then:


THE SHIT HIT THE FAN!

Mary Had A Little Lamb Recording, Dec 6, 1877

On this date in 1877 Thomas Edison recorded himself reciting the first stanza of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." *.  One of the first voice recordings.

Wouldn't it be more memorable if Thomas added a second improvised second stanza?  like:

"And All The Doctors Fainted!"

*UNCLE JOHN'S ALMANAC Page-a-Day Calendar, December 6, 2013.

Cinthia Sumner (bef 1815-1885)

I may have posted this letter before, and again I might not have.  It is always a pleasure to read a private letter than was not meant for you.

Cinthia Sumner [4944], daughter of Samuel Sumner [86], was born before 1815 in , Buncombe Co, NC, died after 24 Nov 1885, and was buried in Williams Cemetery, Bat Cave, NC.

General Notes: The following is a letter Cynthia wrote to her sister.

                                        Batcave

                                        Henderson County, N.C.

                                        November 24, 1885

Mrs. Margaret Williams

My dear and only sister,

Your kind and more than welcome letter came to hand  in due time and found all as we11 as usual.  As for myself; I am never well.  I do not know what it is to feel well  one  day I am troubled with heart disease  all  the  time  and  seldom clear of headaches.  I can neither knit nor sew.  It gives me a such a headache.  I have not cooked a meal of  victuals  in over five years.  I seldom go out of the house unless  it  is very Pleasant weather.  I have my meals carried to me in cold weather/ and you are able to do your own work.  What a difference.  If I was that stout; I  would  visit  you  right away.  As it is; I can't visit my children.  I have not  been to see Martha in over a year.  She lives in Rutherford.   The rest all live near enough to visit them occasionally.  I have not walked a mile in over five years.  The children  are  all tolerably stout but Martha.  She is weak but hardly  able  to do her work and has six children.  And the oldest one is down now with his leg broken.  Lou. has but one child.. and  she  is grown.  Mark is living with me.  He has  five  children..  the rudest ever was.  Two of the first  wife  and  three  of  the last.   We  are  getting  along  tolerably  well  considering everything.  His wife lost her right hand four years ago.. but she can do a good deal of work yet.  She can do most anything but sew by hand.  Can sew on the machine.  Mark  is  gone  to Asheville with a load of tobacco.  This is the first  tobacco farming that has been done in this vicinity.  There  will  be more  raised  another  year.   There  has  been  considerable improvement since you. left here. The country is becoming very thickly settled.  There is a small town at  the  bridge;  two stores and  a  Post  office/  a  merchant  mill  and a  carding factory.  Bill R. Conner is  badly  deranged.   He  wants  to Preach all the time and  says  the  People  won't  hear  him. Brother Jesse and Uncle Dempsey have  been  dead  some  time. Perhaps you heard it.  Mat Ledbetter's oldest daughter  Sarah Ann also Katy Lyda's daughter Rachel Ann.. They were taken  to be confined and died.  They both left little children.   Katy lives with her son-in-law and takes  care  of  the  children, Mat comes over  occasionally  to  see  us.   He  is  quite  a different man to what he use  to  be.  He  is  a  very  moral fellow.  Joshua Whitaker is in  very  Poor  health.   He  has almost come to Poverty.

John Casey is dead and Peggy is  married  again.   Jesse Nilliams married David Halker^s widow of Rutherford..  a  very respectable old lady.  I seldom see Lizzie.  I suppose she is getting along very  well.   She  is  married  and  has  three children.

A similar circumstance recently occured in this country. A girl by the name of Bradley was taken to  be  confined  and went to the woods and laid her  baby  between  two  logs  and broke a few weeds and laid over it and left it there to  die. Next day it was found dead.  She is now  in  Asheville Jail. She is a grand-daughter of Michael Sumner.

We get letters from Mary Annn sometimes.  Why is  it  she always writes so sad?  Hoping you are well.  I will close for the Present. Write soon and let me hear from you all.

Your affectionate sister until death;

Cynthia Williams

P.S. Please excuse my left hand writing.

Cinthia married David Williams [4945] [MRIN: 1783], son of John Williams [4946] and Mary/Polly Ashworth [4947]. David was born on 11 May 1807, died about 1880 about age 73, and was buried in Williams Cemetery, Bat Cave, NC.

Will Work RUBIK'S CUBE Puzzle For Food

At Coscto yesterday there were  only two free samples tables.  I think we might have been too early for the bulk of the free samples.  'Tis the season to gorge.  One of the free samples a lady was preparing something with a cracker, cheese, and a red pepper sauce.   She had one sample left on her present batch and the man ahead of me rightfully took it and ate it.  The free sample lady said she would have some more in just a few minutes,  it doesn't take long to prepare.  The guy that just took her last one from the previous batch didn't move.   As she ran a one-lady assembly line she did her selling speech.  While she talked the man who took the last sample stood and worked on a Rubik's Cube.  It probably took her 4 or 5 minutes to get the next batch ready to hand out.  In those 4 to 5 minutes the guy proudly had the Rubik's Cube Puzzle solved.  He proudly showed the free sample lady his perfect Rubik's Cube and said he thought that he deserved another sample and took it.  Then he proudly put it in front of my face for me to examine.  I said something like, "Yeah, that nice."  and reached around him for my morsel of free sample food.

Also, at Costco, you may have noticed,  if you overhear people talking, it is an international community.  You overhear Yankee accents, Spanish accents and language, European,   Asian, and Arabic accents and language.

But I never heard a Charlie Brown's parents' language.  An apparent  married couple sounded much like the adults on Charlie Brown specials.  ... "Wan wan".  I was close the couple in their 40s or 50s that carried on a long purchasing conversation saying nothing but "Wan wan."  Some of the Wan wans had  question marks and some ended in three dots, like very thoughtful statements....