Reclaim Alabama: September 2022

Z.Z. TOP @ Oak Mountain ("TURN UP THE JUICE & CUT THE DAMN THANG LOOSE!") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dJfigT4Pyc

The Day Bear Bryant Died video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV_Wd3QO1L8DOTHAN HIGH

CLASS OF '68 50TH REUNION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58r4Ck-YLoM&t=102s

THE BALLAD OF BECKY & GROVER

Featuring Richard Burke
Written by Robert Register & Richard Burke
Produced by Frank Tanton

released September 19, 2022

https://tanton.bandcamp.com/track/becky-grover

Smellin' like a cat house and dressed fit to kill.

She picked up her satchel and walked up the hill.

Grover should have known Becky wouldn't stay long with an empty pint and a man on the wagon.

CHORUS: "And if it takes this long it will take two weeks but Becky Fellabella won't walk the streets.

Life is too short to stop whiskey drinking and two minutes is two long for her to leave me."

His face it is sweating like a cold fifth of wine. North St. Andrews Street is taking his time. He walked so fast he raised steam from the street. His trousers they can't hold up his two pounds of heat.

CHORUS: "And if it takes this long it will take two weeks but Becky Fellabella won't walk the streets.

Life is too short to stop whiskey drinking and two minutes is two long for her to leave me."

It got so still and the air smelled like doom. Grover and the candleflies flew into the room. She flopped on the bed like a fish out of water. He had her hair in one hand; his revolver in the other. Becky should have known that soon she'd be dead. Three pulls of the trigger. Three holes in her head.

CHORUS: "And if it takes this long it will take two weeks but Becky Fellabella won't walk the streets.

Life is too short to stop whiskey drinking and two minutes is two long for her to leave me."

I cleaned up that room so it's all spic and span. Gonna rent it out tomorrow to a whiskey drinking man.

CHORUS: "And if it takes this long it will take two weeks but Becky Fellabella won't walk the streets.

Life is too short to stop whiskey drinking and two minutes is two long for her to leave me."

CIVIL WAR HISTORIC MARKER NEAR PELHAM, TENNESSEE https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=181105

CHRISTOPHER & CARSEN @ THE GRAY LADY after the LOUISIANA-MONROE game

EATIN' SIZE WOODCHUCK

600 BLOCK OF GREENSBORO AVENUE

Christopher's 34th birthday party @ NICK'S IN THE STICKS, Wednesday, September 14, 2022

OPTIMIST'S CREED

#1~ To be so strong that nothing can disturb MY peace of mind.

#2~ To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.

#3~ To make all MY friends feel that there is something in them.

#4~ To look at the sunny side of everything and make MY optimism come true.

#5~ To think of the best; to work only for the best; and expect only the best.

#6~ To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about MY own.

#7~ To forget the mistakes of the past, and press on to greater achievements for the future.

#8~ TO WEAR A CHEERFUL COUNTENANCE AT ALL TIMES AND GIVE EVERY CREATURE I MEET A SMILE.

#9~ To give so much time to the improvement of MYSELF that I have no time to criticize others.

#10~ To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

#11~ To think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds.

#12~To live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I am true to the best that is me.

Jennie Bannon's role as an administrator of the Bannon Estate:

page 155:

"You're goin' to be lead horse after I'm gone," the old man said, bluntly, "But your ma is goin' to hold a check rein on you. I ain't sayin' you couldn't handle what I got better'n most. It's that I been worried sometimes that you'd let a dollar outshine what it'll buy. Mother's to hold you down."

Buck didn't answer. His mother stirred in the rocker.

"Tell him how, Joe," she said. "It's best said out."

The old man nodded. "She'll own what I leave, boy," he said. "She'll own it in her lifetime for her and the rest of you. Ain't nobody to get hurt in the split and ain't no one to get more'n the other, high nor low."

page 166:

"You to straw boss," she went on, "but me to ride herd an' use a check rein when I figured it was time."

from the July 4, 1901 HUNTSVILLE JOURNAL

Andrew Klaven https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyhEZKz-LOwgktptEOh6_Iw

https://fatherhollywood.blogspot.com/2019/04/revolutions-have-consequences-or-let.html?m=1

https://www.city-journal.org/what-lies-at-the-heart-of-national-division

TERRIFIC T-TOWN TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

September 12, 2022

from Ingemar Pijnenburg:

"I am wondering whether you could and would like to publish some info on your blog about the cottage on Donegan's Slough, Colbert County, AL owned by Bill Stokes which was rented by Bill Stokes to Duane Allman and / or Eddie Hinton ( very late 1968 or January 1969 ) ?

And about the garage apartment which was rented by Eddie Hinton in Sheffield, AL where Eddie, Johhny Wyker and Duane Allman lived late 1968 ?

Are the addresses known, for instance ?"

September 7, 2022

Hey, I gotta antidote to that "I'm gettin' old & I don't like it" attitude. It's called the "I OUGHT TO BE DEAD RIGHT NOW!" attitude. After two strokes and 5 months in the hospital, that's the lens that my 81 year old boss looks at the world through and I've come to take on the same attitude as I've helped him to come to work and stay out of the hospital for the past fourteen months. I try to do about the same routine each day and some times I'm able to go over two weeks without changing my schedule. Pick up the boss @ 6:40 A.M. Take him on a walk @ 10:45. Mid-day nap. 2 o'clock lunch. 5:30 P.M. on the trail to the river and back until about 10:30 P.M. Supper. Dessert. Prunes. Pass out. Wake up & watch Tucker Carlson intro @ midnight then back at it @ 4:44 A.M. I get a buzz going and keep it for WEEKS! The big thing that heals my soul each day is going to the river and getting that full dose of MOTHER NATURE. Great to hear that ya got plans to hit the road & see old friends. Roll through T-town and I'll show y'all the best we have to offer. Lots of lakes and rivers around here and I have ACCESS! Devil Make a Third continues to keep my attention. I see that novel as the cornerstone of creating a "Dothan mythology." https://privatepropertynotrespass.blogspot.com/ I'm still posting on my original blog ZERO, NORTHWEST FLORIDA. Next year will make 20 years that I've been posting. Over 3500 posts on that one blog with over a half million views. It still gets about 2000 views each month. https://robertoreg.blogspot.com/ If you are ever interested in my current intellectual passion, got to my blog RECLAIM ALABAMA. That's kinda my "stream of consciousness" blog. Whatever is hitting my fancy. Right now it's stagecoaches. https://reclaimalabama.blogspot.com/

BEST!

r

September 6, 2022

Probably the best book on Alabama stagecoach travel is THE VERY WORST ROAD which is a collection of travelers accounts from old Federal Road between Columbus, Georgia and Montgomery. http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Very-Worst-Road,2472.aspx

entry for Robert Jemison in the Encyclopedia of Alabama http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-4138clipping

Slaughter W. Ficklin https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111100977/slaughter-w-ficklin

Ben F. Ficklin https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12600000/benjamin-franklin-ficklin

entry for James Powell in the Encyclopedia of Alabama http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/m-7323

from the June 25, 1857 Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor (Lauderdale Springs was near Meridian. It was a popular resort.) https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=141012