Posted on 07/07/2004 12:08:24 AM PDT by Mama_Bear
Oh, my gosh! Freepmail me. Tell me what happened!
LOL!!! Well, no. Excellent point. LOL
(There is no way any child raised in THIS family could ever grow up to be a liberal. In fact, this family is so conservative, our only son grew up to be a Libertarian. LOL!)
Oops! Apparently we can't link to tripod photos. :-(
See? I'm back again! ;-)
Being an American can be complicated. I don't tend to take sides in that war since I think both sides were wrong at times, we never got the whole true story anyway.
And did you know that Jonesborough was named after one of my ancestors? My mother was a Jones. They settled in that area and later moved a little West to Warren Co.
What a small world it is!
Yes Aqua. I think you should share your story with everyone.
Can't do that but I'll send you a copy of the story...if anyone else is curious let me know.
I tried to link to the photo of the interior of the vessel, but all I got was a giant tripod logo. Had to have the moderator delete it. :-(
I didn't know there was a replica of the Hunley that people can actually go inside. I don't think I could do that.
Uh huh, sure. LOL.
Actually, I am more mad at myself than guilty. I hate that I was so close to a special freeper person and didn't know it!! :-(
Don't know how you missed it, think I posted this link of my great grandfather with a picture of the monument he sculpted (the first) for the Confederacy on your South Carolina thread. Serpent Dove did a great job on this montage for me a few months back.
So that is your great grandfather? Guess I need to pull up the SC thread and see what else I may have missed.
Yep, he took several today. He is good, if I do say so myself.
That's our Emma. Still a preemy but beautiful, and praise God, healthy.
Like dixie, even though I grew up in Florida, my mother was a South Carolinian and I was 'properly educated' about my forebears and their history and that of this vital Original State.
(I qualify to be both a Daughter of The Revolution and a Daughter of The Confederency.)
As Miss Cuzzin Dixie points out, at the time of the War of Northern Agression, we were not the only state comtemplating secession!
It was masked as "about slavery," but there was that in the North, too - but more importantly, the South had more actual wealth, and was being heavily and unfairly taxed on its productivity to benefit the Nawth...
What did it therefore gain South Carolina to be part of the Union, the North intent upon in effect "redistribute the wealth of South Carolina?"
(Heard of that before??!!)
Far better to "go it alone" to those bearing the unfairly borne financial burdens of heavy taxes only on Southern goods....think about it...
Was out of town until after 3 p.m. - then had to shop and cook dinner, read the thread, and now am settling in to learn how to operate a "newfangled electronic computerized Gizmo" that I must initiate in another hour - - gotta do intensive 'homework.'
{{{{{ Hugs to everyone }}}}}
Prayers for total recall Sistah. Not easy for us "old...er...recycled...seasoned persons" to learn new-fangled contraptions.
There is a beautiful Episcopal Church here, made of lovely cypress, and when the townsfolk heard Sherman was coming through, they took out the stained glass windows and hid them beneath soil in woods away from town.
In fact, Sherman used the church for his stable for his horses, hoofprints still on the wooden floor, and the baptismal font was filled with water for the horses to drink!
I have attended services in it.
Here is the only picture on Google, that does not show the lovely light wood. It recently has been expanded in size.
This high tech delight is AWESOME, Sistah!!
Thanks for the prayers..:))
Loveya - -
Hugs to you Lady Maggie! Thanks for your insight and contibutions to the Finest.
Good luck mastering that newfangled gizmo, whatever it is. ;-)
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