This album got this comment from Mary Alice Pitchford, Bobby Goldsboro's first wife and the mother of his three children: "Our home on Old Hickory Lake was actually Roy and Claudette’s basement!! Then we went on tour in the North West for several weeks. Then we got to tour Europe for several weeks before Roy and Bobby went on tour with the Beatles. Was the most amazing time. We had so much fun!"

("Of all the great memories, even the Number 1 records, the times with Orbison were the best." ~ Bobby Goldsboro, 1991)

Covid-19 SCORE FOR ALABAMA https://alpublichealth.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/6d2771faa9da4a2786a509d82c8cf0f7

I surprised MY OWN DAMN SELF on this 'un! Like I've said before on Facebook: THIS IS NOW MY 5TH PRAYER!!!! ( to go along with the 23rd Psalm, the Lord's Prayer, The Serenity Prayer and the Optimist Creed)

“Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initative or creation, there is one elementary truth...that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves. too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones's favor all manner of incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have believed would have come his way.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Murray

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/moser/Eng%201010%20fall%2015/Agee%20let%20us%20now%20praise%20fammen.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0OOCuHf_cBKmbhMWkedTLCIVAdI3c1Sbn8n49a4DBaQMDcrGWKFlUYiYk


 page 326 of LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN

Cotton is only one among several crops and among many labors: and all these other crops and labors mean life itself. Cotton means nothing of the sort. It demands more work of a tenant family and yields less reward than all the rest. It is the reason the tenant has the means to do the rest, and to have the rest, and to live, as a tenant, at all. Aside from a few negligibilities of minor sale and barter and of out-of-season work, it is his one possible source of money, and through this fact, though his living depends far less on money than on the manipulations of immediate nature, it has a certain royalty. It is also that by which he has all else besides money. But it is also his chief contracted obligation, for which he must neglect all else as need be; and is the central leverage and symbol of his privation and of his wasted life. It is the one crop and labor which is in no possible way useful as it stands to the tenant's living; it is among all these the one which must and can be turned into money; it is among all these the one in which the landowner is most interested; and it is among all these the one of which the tenant can hope for least, and can be surest that he is being cheated, and is always to be cheated. All other tasks are incidental to it; it is constantly on everyone's mind; yet, of all of them it is the work in which the tenant has least hope and least interest, and to which he must devote the most energy. Any less involved and self-contradictory attempt to understand what cotton and cotton work 'means' to a tenant would, it seems to me, be false to it.

this clipping is from a DOTHAN ENTERPRISE editorial which was reprinted in the July 12, 1890 EUFAULA DAILY TIMES :

Such SEARCHING EYES to see OUR MANIFOLD SINS;

so much SURPLUS PIETY lying around loose,

to DEPLORE OUR DEPRAVITY;

so much HOLY WRATH to condemn OUR GENERAL CUSSEDNESS.

what SWEET BUT DETERMINED SERENITY THE PUBLIC VIRTUE SLEEPS,

erstwhile, oblivious to THE MISDEEDS AND MALEFACTIONS OF THE REST OF THE WORLD

and can be awakened only by a SOUL HARROWING account of

"DOTHAN'S DEVILTRY;"

in a PAROXYSM OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, the public with countenance frescoed with

DROPS OF LIQUID GRIEF, and a bosom TORN TO PIECES BY LOVELY EMOTIONS,

admonishes us for our LOST AND DAMNED CONDITION,

and having thus filled THE FULL MEASURE OF DUTY falls to sleep again.

Oh what a lovely exhibition of MISSIONARY GENEROSITY!

What a spectacle of MANUFACTURED GRIEF

and OH MY COUNTRYMEN,

what an abundance of IMPROVISED PIETY.

 

 

page 128 of DEVIL MAKE A THIRD:

He didn't attempt to think about anything and he went along with no conscious thought that his only reason for wanting the walk home was- Aven. He wanted, somewhere so deep inside him that he wouldn't have recognized it, to watch Aven and to do it in his own way as a parent might secretly watch the antics of a child. He wanted to see it at dusk when he was least likely to be stopped, walking slowly down its dusty or muddy streets, on a private boarded walk for a few feet, then down again on the public ruts and ditches and bogs. He wanted to drowse along over the sights his eyes would see and soak up the sounds his ears would hear. A new wagon, perhaps empty of household goods or work tools, but full to the sideboards with a new family, would grind slowly through the straggling streets with old eyes searching and young eyes just as big and as solemn, flaring with excitement. Or it might be an old wagon, piled high with stove and mattresses and chairs and the children walking close to the wheels. Buck always nodded his head slowly at sight of the old wagons. "That bunch has been through the mill," he'd think, "and that kind comes to stay." It never came consciously to his mind that he was proud of Aven. He never thought, "This is my town and it's a good town." They meant the same, but his words were different. "Two more bunches. One to borrow and one to buy."

from page 122 and 123 of DEVIL MAKE A THIRD:

Weather like this, part of Buck's mind would be with the farmer and himself as friends, working together to make the ground give up its goods; then another part of his mind would roll suddenly like a trout to a rain frog, and that part of his mind would whisper,
"No crop, no pay."
Unless you've got a note and then there're mules and tools and sometimes land itself coming back for the feed and the seed, the side meat and the salt,  the copper-toed shoes and the kettle that left the store. Then he'd pull away from that thought , and he'd say to himself the ginning was done and the crop had been good, so what the hell if the frost never came to help out the next year.
The hard money was there to shake loose the big stock of heavy coats and the bolts of fancy woolens that clogged the shelves of the store.  Buck would try to convince himself that the storekeeper-furnisher took a chance and that big profits should come from big risks; then the thought would come to make him sweat, that whichever way the farmer moved, the storeman had him going and coming. That thought came now as he crossed the yard under the familiar chinaberry tree and he deliberately shook the guilty feeling away. 

Archie's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53j_i010IPY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2sYktDBkhscUn_K-oazIrOpNlFTSBQ6GnXV4HM7txcJh9rYU4YnWkC31c

 “I'm not attempting to grow vegetables here. I'm going to grow people." ~ Gideon Thomas, Founder of Panama City Beach

Up until about the 1940s, country folks in the Tri-States decorated graves with lightning whelks, having no idea they were continuing the ancient Indian tradition of using this shell to symbolize the sacred left hand swirl. https://www.news-press.com/story/life/outdoors/2015/07/18/lightning-whelk-calusa-bailey-matthews-museum-bill-marquardt-jose-leal-tropicalia/30299339/

https://www.webcitation.org/6XFwpTkW4?url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/nrhp/text/83002984.pdf Dothan National Register 1983

Segrest-Canady Building (223-229 E. Main Street): 1910; large, two story, brick; brick cornice and decorative patterned brickwork in upper facade; seventeen equally spaced window openings in second floor facade have been boarded up; five, various sized commercial storefront bays on first floor level; aluminum has been used to cover central portion of facade, between first and second floors.

72. Ellison Building (221 E. Main Street): 1907; two story, brick; brick cornice; three boarded-up windows in second story facade set in recessed panels; first floor storefront altered with aluminum and new plate glass.

73. Building (205 E. Main Street): before 1903*; one story, brick; brick cornice; storefront has been covered over and altered with sheet aluminum and glass.

74. Bender's (203 E. Main Street): before 1903*; one story, brick; brick cornice; storefront has been altered with carrarra glass and new plate glass.

77. Building (123 E. Main Street): before 1893*; one story, brick; smooth stucco covers brick cornice and two recessed panels in upper facade; storefront has been altered with wood.

78. Building (121 E. Main Street): before 1893*; one story, brick; brick cornice and single, rectangular panel in upper facade; storefront has been altered with aluminum, wood and glass.

79. Building (119 E. Main Street): before 1893*; one story, brick; brick cornice and two recessed brick panels in upper facade; storefront has been altered with aluminum, wood and glass.
1983 National Register of Historic Places application for Dothan


80. Gem Jewelry & Loan (117 E. Main Street): before 1893*; one story, brick; brick cornice and single, rectangular recessed panel in upper facade; storefront has been altered with wood, aluminum and glass.

82. Rose Jewelers (107 E. Main. Street): before 1893*; one story, brick; two decorative brick panels in upper facade; storefront altered with wood, aluminum and glass.

75. Dothan Bank and Trust Building (201 E. Main Street): before 1907*; DOTHAN'S FIRST LIMESTONE BUILDING
c. 1972; two story bank; original limestone facade has been completely covered with new brick, aluminum and glass; most of interior marble detailing has been retained.

76. Page Drug Building (125 E. Main Street): before 1893*; two story, brick; irregular corner structure with clipped corner; four arched windows set in recessed panels on second floor front facade and five along right side (facing N. St. Andrews St.) facade; facade has been completely covered with smooth stucco; first floor commercial storefront bay has been altered with aluminum, glass and brick.

81. SEACT (109-115 E. Main Street): before 1893*; three, brick structures (one two-story flanked by two one-story) were merged into one building; upper facade completely covered with stucco; first floor storefronts altered with blue carrarra glass and new plate glass with aluminum trim.

83. Building (105 E. Main Street): before 1903*; two story, brick; facade has been completely covered over with a new, plain yellow brick facade; first floor storefront has been replaced with three windows; original red brick facade contains numerous limestone bands.