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To: wardaddy; AnAmericanMother

"Beautiful...is that called a widow's walk on top?"


That's exactly what it looks like to me, wardaddy.
Absolutely beautiful, AAM!
I've been to Eufaula...lovely little town.


186 posted on 01/05/2005 3:39:37 PM PST by dixiechick2000 (President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)
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To: dixiechick2000; wardaddy; bourbon
Tell you a funny story about our last family reunion but one in Eufaula (we've had several).

My cousin Sue had these bright red T-shirts printed up with "LONG-DENT REUNION" in huge white letters, with an outline map of Alabama around them.

One of the items on the agenda was a cemetery tour, so out we all went in our bright red T-shirts to Greenview Cemetery. We were looking at relatives' plots (believe me, there are more of us in Greenview than any place else in Eufaula now - I bet our relatives take up at least a third of that cemetery!) when somebody noticed that the gravestone of Uncle Henry Augustus Dent, USN (who was with Dewey at Manila Bay!) had his birthdate on it . . . and it was that very day!

You have to imagine about 75 people in bright red shirts gathered around an old-fashioned flat gravestone singing at the top of their lungs, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, UNCLE HENRY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!"

Any passersby must have thought that the Young Communist League had hit town and was having a rally in the cemetery . . . but actually early on a Saturday morning in Eufaula there WEREn't any passersby . . . which was just as well. A great time was had by all, and I hope Uncle Henry appreciated his birthday song . . .

189 posted on 01/05/2005 4:20:55 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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