I woke up this morning to a surprising rainstorm and became worried about rescuing my 50 pound bag of fish food that's exposed on the bank of the Warrior and then I opened up my gmail account and ACTUALLY SAVED your email while DELETING about 20 spam NEWS ALERTS from the T-News. 

Anywayzzzzzzzzzz, forget about the fish food... SOMEBODY'S INTERESTED IN DAUPHIN ISLAND HISTORY!!!! & you went to BAMA,too! Give me your years of interest because I got about every Corolla since 1900. My boss, Lee Pake (Zebe) , is a collector. The Staples-Pake building is named after his family.  http://staplespake.com/about/

The latest Dauphin Island stuff I been thinking about occurred last week when my on-again-off-again girlfriend of only 54 years sent me a link to an article about floating lighthouses and it got me to thinking about the lightering fleet stationed at the lower anchorage between D.I. and Ft. Morgan before the dredging of the ship channel. All ocean-going ships would off-load cargo on to small boats bound for the wharfs on the Mobile River. It is my understanding that barges were anchored in the bay as a base of operations. 

Another Dauphin Island history investigation I might like to get into would be anything dealing with the 300th anniversary of Dauphin Island's conquest of Pensacola which will occur into 2022. Bienville's 1719 conquest of Pensacola is the only reason P'cola can add the French flag to their CITY OF FIVE FLAGS. Dauphin Island is the ISLE OF 8 FLAGS because of the Republic of Alabama and the Republic of West Florida.  https://dauphinislandhistory.blogspot.com/

I haven't looked at any of your material but your 1900 to 1918 timeline fits right into my work on Dothan. I'm writing THE DEVIL MAKE A THIRD Primer. https://privatepropertynotrespass.blogspot.com/

I'm probably gonna be down on Dauphin Island soon so we can probably meet then. I gotta get ready to go to the Dinosaur Show @ Alabama Adventure Park with my two year old grandson and his parents.

My number is 443-703-6271

 Just completed an interesting task for my DEVIL MAKE A THIRD Primer. I have selected quotes from the novel's Forward, 33 CHAPTERS, and 11 Interludes. I believe these quotes summarize the action in each chapter and my next project will be to compose brief summaries of the action from which each quote is taken.

FORWARD: "The lusty, always greedy, sometimes fumbling fingers of the strong man enrich the country in spite of his motives, as the earthworm's blind and selfish groping mellows the soil."

CHAPTER 1 (circa 1887) : "Headin' for town..."

CHAPTER 2: "Take the first job somebody offers me, long as it ain't a tool job."

INTERLUDE #1: " 'F I hadn't borrowed the first dollar from Buck Bannon, he'd never 'o made a loan."

CHAPTER 3:  "His wife's sick. He needs money right now for some doctorin' in Atlanta."

CHAPTER 4: "I don't give a damn about bein' a gentleman but, by God, I'll be payin' my debts, till I die."

INTERLUDE #2 (circa 1890) : "He left in a rubber-tired buggy, all right."

CHAPTER 5: "Please don't let me be scared of all them folks."

INTERLUDE #3: "Now I couldn't even be a night watchman if Buck wasn't buildin' his folks a house an' hired me so he could get his money back."

CHAPTER 6: "Big Vic. We got a Little Vic."

CHAPTER 7: "We're goin' to call her Christina."

INTERLUDE #4 (circa 1895) : "Wasn't for him, you wouldn't even have a job helpin' to lay out the town."

CHAPTER 8 (circa 1900) : "He'll be drunk for two days and won't have a chance to tell it in town."

CHAPTER 9: "I don't think you could do anything that wasn't pretty."

INTERLUDE #5 (circa 1905) : "He got me this job because he and old man Dean got to be big political buddies and he says if I'll pay him half my salary ever' week, he won't charge no more interest."

CHAPTER 10: "Stick around. Reckon we can gee on some other matters, too."

CHAPTER 11: "I'm all that and I'm a man that don't change. But if you're in love with the kind of man I am now, by the Lord, I ain't goin' to change."

CHAPTER 12: "We don't need light right now."

INTERLUDE #6: "Jake, what bothers me is, how come he can do things like he's doin' to you and you stay friends with him?"

CHAPTER 13: "Hold supper up. Got somethin'  to 'tend to."

CHAPTER 14: "Losses don't bother me. I just draw a new hand an' raise all bets."

CHAPTER 15: "Papa died."

INTERLUDE #7 (circa 1910) : "Talkin' 'bout me wastin' on, women, look at him. It was a woman made that girl clear out."

CHAPTER 16: "It was kinda fun fixin' up to give 'em that stuff."

CHAPTER 17: "One thing I've always wanted to see though, New York."

CHAPTER 18: "A hotel with a bathroom and a telephone in every room."

INTERLUDE #8: "Miss Edie, here's number twenty-five."

CHAPTER 19: "I hope you can find me a place."

CHAPTER 20: "You've only known me three weeks, you don't even know if you'd like to kiss me."

INTERLUDE #9 (circa 1915): "Old as Buck is, there ain't apt to be no more a'comin."

CHAPTER 21: "Go on down Lessie Whitfield."

CHAPTER 22: "Well, Preacher, lucky you didn't sleep in your tent last night."

CHAPTER 23: "I can just see little old Ed Reddick collectin' taxes from Josie's Hollow Horn girls."

INTERLUDE #9: "Well, sir, you can't never tell about Buck. I didn't figure he'd get over Tobe Parody gettin' killed"

CHAPTER 24: "She's just got a one-way fare, Buck, but she's routed right."

CHAPTER 25: "It's a plumb shame that everybody can't afford to live all the time like they didn't have but one more day."

CHAPTER 26: "Your place is so much like the house we used to live in, maybe you'd just let me come down here to visit."

INTERLUDE #10: "Pore Buck, ever'body around him droppin' out, an' his brand-new wife packin' off to boardin' school."

CHAPTER 27: "And, by God, when I get to where I have to be serviced like a damn brood mare, I'll get a man. It won't be a spineless dog."

CHAPTER 28: "Good God, let me get out of this place."

CHAPTER 29: "I'm going to wear white satin, cut real low, and white gloves up past my elbows. At the dedication, when you make the speech."

CHAPTER 30: "She's gone."

CHAPTER 31: "Put it on the records as a bridal suite and charge double our usual rates."

INTERLUDE #11: "Mighty good to see a fellow get in shape to retire." "Go to hell."

CHAPTER 32: "My God, that'll be the capitol calling from Montgomery."

CHAPTER 33: "Drop the guitar." 

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 "The two were then parted by some member of the house and Lucile was put out of the house while Roseta was kept inside until she got out somehow, where she and Lucile resumed their fighting with bottle and brick throwing until they finally clenched." (from the June 26, 1948 ALABAMA CITIZEN)

  Chapter 4, Page 40-42 : The description of Mabe's Place: "I figgered even a goat'd ruther live in a house full of ready women that lay in the road."

"...Buck turned his head and shoulders around to look gravely up at one of the girls. She was fat and she wore a long cotton dress that clung mighty close. Her hair hung down her back and her mouth was open. She stared at the goats, then at Buck still twisted around the bottom step, and slowly she reached up and scratched under her arm."

"Suddenly she stiffened. 'Good God, girls,'  she screamed, 'get up.' She turned and ran with her felt slippers flapping."

Chapter 13, Page 137: One of Mabe's girls has been kidnapped by a mob and Mabe sends Virgil to get Buck. "Mabe sent you? How'd he know I'd give a damn?" Virgil chuckled. "Mabe and I get to see the side of a man that most of them keep hid. Mabe seeks them drunk and gaping at a woman all wet-mouthed."

Page 145: "...and see the magnolia and the girl who was tied to its trunk. He didn't recognize her at first, even though the moon laid a wide shoal of light right over her. She was standing erect with her hair up, bound only by her wrists which strained out behind her to meet each end  of rope whose length looped on around the big magnolia's bole. Her back was pressed tightly against the thick smooth bark with its patches of velvety fungus, so tightly that her small breasts stretched almost flat on her chest. She was naked except for a pair of high-buttoned black shoes and rolled black stockings, one of which had slipped down over the shoe top. Her long brown hair was still piled neatly, held in place by two plaits which crossed from side to side and went on around her head to be gathered together in the back with a green roach comb. Her lips were pressed together until they almost disappeared. Her nostrils flared wide and straight ahead with anger but no fear. Buck saw the small black pupil and iris set in the long whites of the eyes as he maneuvered the robed figure to his left so he could reach around back of her with his knife hand, and it was then that he recognized her. 'Well, I'll be damned, Naomi,' he said, as he shoved the man directly in front of her and reached back with the knife, 'If I'd a'known it was you, I'd a'hurried.' Naomi's face twisted viciously but she didn't answer. She kicked out and up with her left foot and the buttoned arch of her shoe thudded into the groin of the robed figure."

page 146: "He turned abruptly and unthinkingly pushed against Naomi's bare buttock with the flat of his hand. 'Move over.' Naomi slapped automatically at his arm. 'Window-shopper, " she said bitterly. Buck flushed. 'Goddammit,' he said, roughly, 'you keep your mouth shut." He turned to Jeff. 'Where's her dress?' "

 attention: Mark Ultra's THOUGHT POLICE

subject: BRAIN "FOOD"

#1 undue influence  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undue_influence

#2 coercive persuasion https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Coercive_persuasion#:~:text=Coercive%20persuasion%20refers%20to%20social,interpersonal%20and%20group%2Dbased%20influences.

#3 thought reform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Reform_and_the_Psychology_of_Totalism

#4 depersonalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization#:~:text=Though%20degrees%20of%20depersonalization%20and,trauma%20or%20prolonged%20stress%2Fanxiety.

 "All aboard! THE KARMA TRAIN is leaving the station. Next stop NOBODY knowzzzzzzzzzzz..."

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 "Sarah Parcak"

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 Of all the mistakes made by the Dauphin Island street names nomenclature committee, their explanation for the historical significance for the naming of GENERAL GAINES PLACE is probably the worst! ( Corrections to the original text will follow.) from S. Blake McNeely's THE DEVELOPMENT OF DAUPHIN ISLAND (1974)
"named for General George S. Gaines who operated a large Trading House at St. Stephens, an important outpost in the young United States, while Mobile was still held by the Spanish during the early days on the nineteenth century. As a trader, General Gaines was one of the first business men to see the need of the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway as he in 1810 was barging supplies down the Ohio River from Pittsburg, then up the Tennessee River to Calbert's [sic-ed. note: Colbert's] Ferry from where his goods were carried overland to the Tombigbee River and then barged on downstream to St. Stephens. "

(ed. note: The biographical information on George S. Gaines is correct, however, Gaines was never a general. That achievement goes to his brother, General Edmund Pendleton Gaines )
This east to west dead end street begins where its west end intersects with General Gorgas Drive. https://dauphinislandhistory.blogspot.com/2012/06/image-courtesy-of-alabama-department-of.html

 "Buck has never sprouted any wings. His wings were backward about coming up, so he paid more attention as to how to walk, knowing the fly-time would take care of itself..." from the May 23, 1908 DOTHAN EAGLE editorial announcing Buck Baker being elected Mayor of Dothan for the first time. In the spring of 1908, Buck was a 39 year old bachelor living in one of the 52 steam-heated rooms of his newly opened Hotel Martin on East Main.

 "The (chess) board was set up, and the moves followed an 1899 game played in Vienna by chess masters Walhoffen and Zeissi...

 "It took three days to shoot that (chess game) scene, and a full day to shoot the minute that follows. The kiss. With a final glance at the (chess) board, Steve pulls me roughly to him and growls, 'Let's play something else.' It begins with the briefest of touches, his lips barely pressing mine. Then we move in on each other in what was meant to be the longest, most passionate, most sensual, most erotic kiss in the world. And I'm told it was. The camera starts spinning around us, as if we are wildly spinning. The we become a thousand prisms of light, a starburst of colors, as the kiss goes on and on." ~ Faye Dunaway in her autobiography, LOOKING FOR GATSBY  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SBxf6uIW0I

 According to PAST HORIZONS, the Foster-Cummings (circa 1827) @ 1600 Dearing Place "originally was a three-story and faced west, straight steps leading to the second floor. In the 1930's the two top stories were moved south to the present location, making it a two-story house with two sets of steps leading from ground to the first floor veranda." You can see the Foster-Cummings house near the upper left margin in the 1887 map. Notice it is north of its present location and faces west. You can also see the steps leading up to the second story.  The Dearing-Swaim House (circa 1835) @ 2111 14th Street is beige-tinted just below the title EAST MARGIN. The Glasscock House (circa 1844) @ 1109 21st Street is in the lower right corner of the map and the church labeled "H" is Hunter's Chapel AME Zion Church (1881) @ 1107 22nd Avenue.

 After reading everything I could find about Derek Delgaudio's IN & ON ITSELF, I finally saw it. My initial impression is that Coach Bryant would have really enjoyed this show for two reasons: 

#1: Coach Bryant's first advice to incoming freshman players was to let the first thing they do on campus be to write home. This is a transcript of a video of Coach making that speech: "I've said this before, of course,
I've said anytime I've had the opportunity that I wouldn't trade places with anyone in the world because of the privilege of being here at The University & passing my time here.

I WILL never put anything against your education. We want that to come first.

ON THE OTHER HAND WE WANT FOOTBALL!!!!

To be second!

We want football to be second!

Because we feel a very strong obligation to you and we feel like you should to The University because it works both ways.

First of all,
we want you to write home!

THANK YOU!"

#2:  "This is the beginning of a new day.  

God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.

What I do today is important as I am
exchanging a day of my life for it.

When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever.
Leaving something in its place I have traded for it.

I want it to be a gain, not loss--good, not evil.
Success, not failure,

in order that I shall not forget the price I paid for it."

~  a poem found in Coach Bryant’s wallet on the day of his death

 https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/don-t-call-derek-delgaudio-223033296.html

CHILD LABOR: UNCOMPENSATED TOIL

 Chapter 1

first paragraph of page 11: "He was eighteen and he was following a mule for the last time."

page 15: "That comes o' rootin' for vittles in this here sorry clay," he said,"

page 16: "-that time when he was eleven and had to quit school to help in the fields-"

page 17: "Don't let Papa make you plow the big mule, boy," he said. "Big John'll pure pull yore arms out at the sockets. But you got to quit sleepin' in the cotton rows when you ought to be choppin'."

Chapter 2

page 24: "Food comes first. Then I got to get me a job- job where a man don't have to use a tool. Tool jobs make corns on a man's hands and when he gets through he's so tired he ain't got sense enough to spend money right. Now, I got to lay onto the right job, but I don't know what it is. It oughtn't to make so much difference, long as it ain't a tool job. I hate to sweat."

SOCIAL STATUS

 

 

 

 WILSON PICKETT on Live In Ghana 1971: SOUL TO SOUL

	I was over in England doing The Tom Jones Show.	0:46:48	0:46:50
	And a fella dropped by by the name of Ringo.	0:46:52	0:46:56
	Ringo began to ask me some questions.	0:46:56	0:47:00
	He said, "Pickett...	0:47:00	0:47:02
	# "You've been all around the world	0:47:02	0:47:04
	# "Singing about a thing called soul."	0:47:04	0:47:07
	# He said, "Can you please tell me what is soul?"	0:47:13	0:47:18
	# I looked around at him, I said, "Ringo,"	0:47:21	0:47:24
	# I said, "Soul ain't nothing but a feeling."	0:47:24	0:47:28
	# He said, "How do you know? How do you know when you get it?"	0:47:28	0:47:33
	# I said, "It gets in your hair." #	0:47:33	0:47:36
	Clap your hands!	0:47:36	0:47:38
	# Oh, yes, I heard a sister say, "It got in my feet!	0:47:42	0:47:47
	# "And I had to, woo, I had to move my feet	0:47:49	0:47:54
	# Let me hear you say yeah. #	0:47:54	0:47:56
	AUDIENCE: Yeah!	0:47:56	0:47:59
	# How many of you think you got soul tonight? Let me see your hands	0:47:59	0:48:03
	# Eeeeeeeeeeeverybody got it tonight, let me see you raise your hands	0:48:05	0:48:11
	# Lord, have mercy	0:48:15	0:48:17
	# I'm feeling pretty good right now	0:48:17	0:48:19
	# One, two, three	0:48:21	0:48:23
	# One, two, three, yeah	0:48:27	0:48:30
	# Oh!	0:48:33	0:48:35
	# If you got it, let me see it. #	0:48:37	0:48:39
	Come on!	0:48:39	0:48:41
	Here we go.	0:48:41	0:48:42
	# You've got to know how to pony	0:48:44	0:48:47
	# Like Bony Moronie	0:48:47	0:48:49
	# Mash potatoes	0:48:49	0:48:52
	# Do the Alligator	0:48:52	0:48:54
	# Put your hand on your hips	0:48:54	0:48:57
	# Let your backbone slip	0:48:57	0:48:59
	# Do the Watusi	0:48:59	0:49:02
	# Do it like Lucy	0:49:02	0:49:04
	# Ow! #

Tim:

You may be interested in my Dauphin Island blog & my St. Andrews Bay blog or maybe even my DEVIL MAKE A THIRD blog. 

DAUPHIN ISLAND: America's Most Historic Gulf Island https://dauphinislandhistory.blogspot.com/

ST. ANDREWS BAY DURING THE CIVIL WAR  https://flowerpower2.blogspot.com/

The DEVIL MAKE A THIRD Primer  https://privatepropertynotrespass.blogspot.com/

I have been blogging on Alabama, Georgia , Florida, etc. subjects since 2003. On any subject you think I may have commented upon, add my Internet name ROBERTOREG to your Google search as in "Baldwin County" ROBERTOREG 

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Best,

Robert Register

"That movie touched the core of my being. Never have I felt so close to a character as I felt to Bonnie. She was a yearning, edgy, ambitious southern girl who wanted to get out, and the getting out doesn't come easy. But with Bonnie there was a real tragic irony. She got out only to see that she was heading nowhere and that the end was death..."

"The makeup-which took hours-I remember well. There was a black center where each bullet hole was, and around that they put wax, which they covered with makeup. Then attached to the wax was a squib and a tiny wire, not much bigger that a strand of hair so that it was virtually invisible. During the scene, each of the squibs would be detonated. Their little dynamite charges, and when detonated they explode like little bombs. When they had finished with me, there were dozens of wires coming from my body and my face. Up close I looked like an escapee from a mad scientist's laboratory."

"For that final scene, the question became how would I react to the bullets that would be hitting me? Bill Alfred always told me, invent from the facts. The facts would be that each bullet hits you with a little impact that throws you back. If you have all those bullets hitting you, you would have a heck of a lot of impacts. Your body would be jerking back all the time. What I evolved was a Saint Vitus' dance, Bonnie's dance of death."

" Then it became a question of creating a final image that was indelible. The door had been shot open so my body could fall. The effect I wanted was a kind of flayed body rather than just crumpling out on the ground in a heap. I had my leg tied to the gearshift, so it would look as if it had gotten lodged there. That way I couldn't fall all the way out of the car and the physical image created was very dramatic. It released, as the Greeks put it, , the pity and fear of the audience, because they see this girl they've come to know shot to ribbons."

"The way they shot it, I do look like I'm caught in an eerie dance. I die, still behind the wheel, the top half of my body fallen to the side, my head resting near the running board, one arm caught on the steering wheel, the other limply over my head, with my hair brushing the grass below." ~ Faye Dunaway in her 1995 autobiography LOOKING FOR GATSBY.

 WHY PEOPLE BECOME UNHAPPY by Anna Vital

1) set expectations too high

2) think they are special but can't explain why

3) measure happiness in the wrong units

4) get used to what they have and want more

5) confuse not being bad with being good

6) try to find meaning in being unhappy

7) hope that other people will make them happy

8) desire happiness less than fear and disappointment

9) find commiserators

10) believe happiness is a selfish pursuit

11) think that misery follows happiness

12) don't see the impact of their work

 Chapter 1: Circa 1887. The setting is the Bannon Farm in southeast Alabama near the new railroad town of Aven.

 "Buck Baker was the product of a time that has passed; unique, complex and hard to understand. What he did, be it right or wrong, he did it without guile or hypocrisy. You could take it or leave it. He was not greatly concerned about what others thought. With his natural ability and power of organization, it is hard to forecast what heights he might have reached with a fine education and a different environment. Anyway, he left his impress upon the City of Dothan as no other has ever done with the possible exception of Jim Young (namesake of Young Junior High School)." by RAMBLIN' REUBEN (E.C. Porter) in the August 12, 1930 DOTHAN EAGLE

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 DEVIL MAKE A THIRD. By Douglas Fields Bailey. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1948. Reviewed by EDWIN S. MILLS, JR. 

 MACHIAVELLI IN ALABAMA

 It's a refreshing experience, these days, to pick up a period novel— which also happens to be a first novel —and find in it both careful devotion to character and honest comment on American culture. It is even more refreshing when that comment is made so completely through character that one seems quite inseparable from the other. "Devil Make a Third" is all of these things, and—with allowances for the fact that it is a first go—perhaps more. For in Mr. Bailey's saga of the turn-of-the-century urbanization of an Alabama town, seen through the eyes of the man who virtually single-handed brought its growth about, there can be found some profound, unstated conjectures as to the nature of the lust for power in a man, its association with frontier America, and the brawny heritage of American enterprise. It is a creditable piece of work. 

  From the first to the closing page, Mr. Bailey's story never leaves the side of big, lusty, amiable Buck Bannon. Buck is very simply a strong man. With a massive, unsentimental (and/or immoral, depending on where you sit) thirst for domination, which Buck explains to himself as a desire to win anything he sets his mind to, he arrives as a rube farm boy of eighteen in the backwater Alabama town of Aven just a length ahead of the industrial revolution—in the form of a railroad spur. And when we leave him, about thirty years, two wives, and several million dollars later, he has become Aven. Colossus-like, he stands athwart it politically, financially, and (perhaps most peculiarly American of all his achievements) in property ownership.

 It is an odd and significant fact that although "Devil Make a Third" must be thus synopsized as the story of a man's climb to urban power, its author tells us little if anything about the specific means by which Buck Bannon achieves his Machiavellian ends. Rather than explain how, Mr. Bailey seems to prefer to investigate why. True, at first we do witness some of the seamy deeds Buck believed were necessary to achieve his ends: we see Buck as a usurous teen-age money-lender; we catch him in ruthless twenty-one-year-old villainies which are quite legal. But more and more, as the story progresses, Mr. Bailey unfolds his saga by selecting only intimate scenes in Buck's personal life. He avoids dramatizing the public scenes, and substitutes hearsay, reference, occasional soliloquies by Buck, and sporadic episodes in a pretentious "chorus" device for the scenes themselves. Instead of seeing Buck express his deep, insatiable hungers in public actions, we watch the effect of those action on his personal life. And from the succession of intimates personal scenes, we begin to draw conclusions of what the public scenes must have been. From a poker game, in which Buck quietly breaks the arm of a colleague caught dealing off the bottom of the deck, we can imagine two-score meetings between Buck and the ward bosses and politicians we never meet. From Buck's tough, implacable fight with his equally tough mother for control of the money he has amassed, we can project innumerable boardroom meetings with unintroduced Aven financiers. It is always in terms of character, rather than incident, that Mr. Bailey regards the lust for power. We concentrate on the fabric of a man and from the man measure the fabric of an era. This is a highly creditable approach to the task of writing a novel.  

Although Mr. Bailey seems to want to avoid editorialization as to Buck's merits and demerits as a social being, I'm afraid that the very absence of the seamier public scenes somewhat gilds his portrait. Buck fares a little too well in Mr. Bailey's hands. Many men who have performed major evils sincerely like to kiss babies and help the poor—and since we see Buck only intimately we witness only the baby-kissing and the Robin Hooding. The artist has flattered his model, and painted out the moles. To me this is a serious flaw; in losing some of its objectivity, the novel loses some of its not inconsiderable stature as American comment.

 

Stella Henrika Prescott

That is Sheryl Christmas my best friend for many years ..she was a local photograph

er at L&J studios in Dothan and then opened her own studio in Cottonwood. She died in 2017. The picture I attached was us in 2014 when I was visiting from California! I lived there 11 years but now back in Dothan

 

 from page 20 of LOOKING FOR GATSBY, autobiography of Faye Dunaway:

"It was also a lean time. The farm wasn't producing enough to support the ever-growing extended family, and there were weeks in the winter when all we had for dinner was tomato gravy. Mother would put oil in a cast-iron skillet, then a handful of flour, and brown it, then add tomatoes that she and Olma (as in "Old Ma", Faye's grandmother, Maggie Lena Fears Smith) had canned in late summer. She'd pour the steaming tomato gravy over fresh biscuits she'd make from flour, buttermilk, and lard, and call us in to dinner." https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32908827/maggie-lena-smith

 Faye Dunaway used a ghost writer to help her write her autobiography but there are passages in the book that didn't need a ghost writer. Faye's Momma, Grace April Smith, wrote this poem about Faye on the night she found out Faye had signed her first movie contract:

"Saturday night, February 12, 1966, 11:30 p.m. Faye called from New York to tell me of signing her first movie contract with Columbia. My thoughts:

O! Lord, hold my Baby high, 

With feet in hands, up into

The starlit sky. 

Let not man deter her height,

But gaze upon the lovely sight.

Would they know the road

She trod to gain this height;

They would respect with all

Their might!

Some day when the Star shines

With heavenly bright;

The world will know the ray of light.

O! Time burns away the years;

Bringing her destiny so near, so near. 

Hold her Lord with upward arms;

And keep away all hurt and harm.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185486325/grace-april-hartshorn

 . A quote by Shakespeare from his play KING HENRY VI, PART 2 ~ Act 3, Scene 2

QUEEN MARGARET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou#Depictions_in_fiction    :
                        "Mischance and sorrow go along with you!
                          Heart's discontent and sour affliction
                          Be playfellows to keep you company!
                          There's two of you; the devil make a third!
                          And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps."

 

 from page 13 of DEVIL MAKE A THIRD

 "Son," she said, mildly, "you act like you've plowed up a snake."

Buck felt the hard clutch go out of his throat and chest then. He laughed out loud. He straightened up, quickly, and jerked the plow point out of the dirt. He tossed the handles slightly higher to point the plowshare straight down and drove it deep into the last unplowed spot. Then he lowered his head a little and looked upwards at his mother.

"Mother," he said,"this is the last time I'll ever follow a mule. I got twenty dollars and I'm headin' for town."

Her face changed then.

Buck walked closer and watched her eyes as he reached up and caught the porch railing and shook it with both hands. He wondered why the jaw didn't soften, retreat a little. The eyes looked out at him like he was still a back-porch yearling. The jaw still pushed forward and pulled down the corners of her full lips until they trailed off into deepening wrinkles. She shook her head at him, full of gentle warning.

"Them pickpockets'll fight over you," she said.

 EVERY WORD in the letter to HARVARD was written by KRISTEN CLARK, Biden "Five: Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities--something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards."

 I have no doubt that Bascom, Florida is named after Henry Bascom (1796-1850), the Methodist circuit rider responsible of for the Methodists splitting over slavery in 1844 but I'm thinking that another "Henry Bascom" may have had something to do with it. I am almost certain that the original Henry Bascom never visited Florida in his lifetime.  That other "Henry Bascom" I'm talking about was my great-great uncle, Reverend HENRY BASCOM REGISTER, who was named after Bascom at the time of his birth in 1850, two months after the original Henry Bascom's death. H.B. Register's father, my great great Grandfather, John Young Register of Geneva, was also a Methodist circuit rider along with his son who he named Henry Bascom Register in 1850. For decades, Reverend H.B. Register served under the Marianna District of the Methodist Church. In 1896, he was the circuit rider for the Westville, Florida circuit. Westville is located across the river from Caryville. In 1911 and 1913, Reverend Register served the Cypress, Florida district. Cypress was located east of Grand Ridge below Two Egg.  H.B. Register's brother, John Forsyth Register was a Baptist circuit rider and LEONIA, FLORIDA north of Bonifay is named after his wife. Reverend J.F. Register was also the second sheriff of Geneva County. (ironically, one of the main characters in DEVIL MAKE A THIRD is BASCOM "Bass" WOOTEN)