Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
Have I ever
mentioned how Scary Things totally empty my brain?! Hurricane Frances so
freaked me out, I forgot TWO birthdays
with them looking me right in the face!!!
Sarah Puckett
Kressaty's ('65) birthday was on the 6th, and Kathy Pilgrim Clark's ('63)
was on the 7th! And I knew they were
imminent and everything. I am SO sorry! A Very Merry Unbirthday, Sarah
and Kathy! (My face is sooo beyond red!)
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Happy-Birthday.html
We continue to
hold our Floridians - and now our Georgians - in our hearts, thoughts, and prayers, as reports arrive
of
the devastation caused
by Hurricane Frances, with Ivan lurking nearby.
From Yahoo News - 09/07/04:
10 Deaths Blamed on Hurricane Frances
(AP) - Frances wound up a two-day assault on Florida that pounded both the
central part of the state and the Panhandle, leaving storm-weary
residents Tuesday with flooding, frayed nerves and shortages of everyday items
such as gas, ice and water. At least 10 deaths were blamed
on the storm in Florida and Georgia. About 3 million people had no power in
Florida and at least 400,000 more were without electricity in Georgia.
Florida officials said Tuesday that power wouldn't be fully restored for a week.
From Yahoo News - 09/08/04:
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -
Thousands of Floridians beginning the recovery process in the destructive path
of Hurricane Frances were hampered
by long lines, congested highways and sticky heat, while the White House and
teams of relief workers promised that help was on the way.
President Bush was to meet Wednesday with
relief workers in Fort Pierce and hurricane specialists in Miami while
discussing a $2 billion disaster
relief package for victims of both Frances and Charley, which ravaged southwest
Florida last month.
Beyond that,
this is one of our most educational
Newsletters yet - on a wide variety of topics. And having been
delayed
a day, it may also be one of the longest....
Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA sent us a plethora of updates and corrections early on 09/06/04:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html - A lovely new midi!
Carry Me Back is so ...... well, so Ken Burns ... so nostalgic ... so Old South.
Absolutely! Thanks, David!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2004.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2004-2nd-letter.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2004-attending.html
Thanks again, Dave! It's a shame that Miss Holladay won't be able to be there.
From Cookie Phillips Tyndall ('64) of VA - 09/06/04:
You have no reason to
apologize to me. Your endeavors and magnanimous
contribution to the memory of NNHS
is beyond the call of duty. I am so
impressed with your dedication and time spent to further the life of this
web page.
It is like a vine that keeps growing and growing and growing. You are
a treat.
OOOOH! Thanks, Cookie! Like a vine? Like a Southern vine? Ya mean, like....KUDZU??? WILD GIGGLES!!!
http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/pulo1.htm
I personally love kudzu, but then I'm weird! Thanks, Cookie! I just couldn't resist working in a plug for good old kudzu...
From Jean Poole Burton ('64) of RI - 08/29/04:
Hey, does anyone remember those
machines in Nachman's basement that you could put your feet in and see the bones
of your feet?
They were in the children's shoe department and were some kind of an x-ray
machine used for fitting shoes properly!
I remember getting up there and putting my feet in them just for fun when my
mother was shopping around...
and my feet are still on the end of my legs and getting me around town...
amazing all the things we did as kids and survived...no consumer protection
laws, haha!
And wasn't Nachman's photo studio something wonderful?
When my daughter had her senior COLLEGE photos taken they were so unprofessional
that I told her to come home with her cap and gown and we went to a professional
photographer
because by gum, after paying for four years of tuition we were going to have
some decent photos!
(OOOOPS! This was one of
those misplaced messages - of which there are still many...) Thanks, Jean!
I loved those machines!
They were always such FUN!
From Jean Poole Burton ('64) of RI - 09/06/04:
Did you receive the note I sent you about the foot x-ray machine
in Nachman's? I remember buying a dress there
that I just could not do without
and wondering what my mother would say because it was so expensive...it cost
$18.
What a hoot! The dress was a black sheath with a white lined lace topper
that buttoned in the back and I wore a
white hat and white gloves of course for
Easter I think. Now people wear jeans and t-shirts to church!
Jeans and
t-shirts to CHURCH?!? The Downfall of Civilization as we knew it...
I lost the hats in '67 and the gloves a
few years later, but I still wear nylons
and 3-1/2" heels to church myself!
From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 09/06/04:
Thanks, Joe! I had quite forgotten all that! I added this to Jean's comments:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/nachmans.html
Joe Drewry ('58) of VA sent us a wondrous listing of his
Classmates on
09/06/04. I'll be starting your Contact Page soon,
Joe. Then as you get permissions for posting the email addies, you can
just forward that on to me - Thanks!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/contact-ALL.html
In fact, in the interest of time, if all of y'all from those classes listed want
to check out your class page, and either confirm or deny
permission to post your email addy, that would be a good thing. Thanks!
From Jean Baker Howell ('69) of VA - 09/06/04:
OHHH, SUPER!!! I'm glad y'all had fun! We can't wait to see all your pictures, Jean!
From Evelyn Fryer Fish ('58) of TX - 09/06/04:
DEAR CAROL -
I certainly understand your
feelings about Julius, Evelyn. Renee (Helterbran Benton - '59) told
me over the phone back
in May, and described many of the details of battles they faced in diagnosis and
treatment of a little known disease.
I thought you and Joe were
already communicating! I’ve not heard back from him since very early this
morning. I hope
all is still well with him and his family. As
his email address is readily available in forty-eleven places all over the web,
I
trust he'll have no problem with my sharing it with you. If he does, well,
um , he knows where to find me......
Take care – and thanks for your kind words.
I received six way cool old images from Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA on 09/06/04. Two of them are posted here:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/fertittas.html -
brand new page! There was a running conversation with Joe Madagan ('57)
of FL
and Kathy Pilgrim Clark ('63) of VA which sparked this whole page.
If anyone kept it and can still find it, please pass it on back
to me (even though it too is right in front of my eyes...
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/north-end.html
Three of these
images I still have not yet posted, and one of them we'll discuss later.
Thanks, Dave! You da MAN!
From Bobby Turpin ('58) of VA - 09/06/04:
Thanks, Bobby! I
appreciate your words. As I've mentioned before, some of y'all like to see
your words in print, and some
of y'all are hesitant to write me at all for fear that you WILL see your words
in print. Nineteen months ago, we had far fewer active correspondents on
board who wanted to actively contribute. Now all that has blessedly
changed.
I really thought I'd be able to
move that school section yesterday so that it would be more user-friendly, but I
was gone much
of the day. There were indeed a great many of our friends who attended
Parkview and Briarfield Schools, and we hope to hear
from more of them in the very near future.
I'm so glad to hear you'll be
participating in that walking event, Bobby! That's a wonderful thing!
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 09/06/04:
Dave found the Magic Key to the oysters with this captioned image:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/oysters/Darling-pile.jpg
At last the page has a proper name:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/oysters.html
Thanks, David! Nobody does it better.
From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 09/06/04:
Captain Dave works his magic once again. To
think there is a market for oyster shells. They were certainly plentiful
in our
Old Stomping Grounds, and they surely would take your breathe away.
Joe
I'll let Dave answer this himself...
From Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA to Joe Madagan ('57) of FL - 09/06/04:
Joe,
As I attended elementary school (4/5/6 grade) in MD, we learned all about
marine
life, especially crabs and oysters. The value of old oyster shells
is to return them
to the oyster beds for the young larval oysters (spat) to
attach themselves. It was
an investment on ensuring future
harvests. Unfortunately, efficient dredging methods,
farm and factory
run-off, and insatiable demand for the bivalves all but extincted the
species from the Chesapeake bay and it estuaries.
Dave
From Joe Madagan ('57) of FL to Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 09/06/04:
Thanks again, Joe!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/oysters.html
From Linda Lane Lane ('64) of VA - "vacationing" in FL - 09/06/04:
Linda, Linda, Linda. Ya got me to cry and laugh in the same paragraph, and dat ain't easy.
Our sympathies to your son-in-law and his family, and our thoughts and prayers for your safe travel home.
Other than
a bit more of my normal dementia, I'm feeling much better, thanks!
From Frank Blechman ('65) of Northern VA - 09/06/04:
You manage to observe most holidays in some
appropriate way, but your Labor Day message has NOTHING
about the meaning of this day. You ended with a hope that we all had a good
weekend.
Remember, the organized labor movement is
what brought you the weekend, the eight hour day, pensions,
health insurance, workplace safety and retirement income security for ordinary
workers. They supported
veterans benefits, the civil rights movement, public education and job
transition training. Worth a mention,
don't you think?
Busted, Frank! Guilty as charged. I apologize profusely.
For those of you
who may be unaware, Frank spent years working with victims of Brown Lung
Disease, in addition to naturally
being a more compassionate person than I. However, I spent sixteen years
living in mid-Illinois among farmers and coal miners
and displaced farmers and coal miners and their families, and during much of
that time was involved with peer-listening groups,
so I should have been more sensitive myself. There's a semi-reasonable
explanation for for neglect of this matter, but trust me,
you do not want to hear it.
I had managed to list these sites on the Labor Day page attached to Monday's Newsletter, but they were more than a bit buried::
http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm
http://www.cnn.com/US/9508/Labor_Day/
http://castlescribe.hispeed.com/fam/holidays/laborday.html
http://www.annieshomepage.com/laborday.html
In penance, I would recommend to you the following three movies to find and watch (or re-watch) for your educational benefit:
Harlan County, USA (1976) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074605/
Silkwood (1983) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086312/
Matewan (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/
I'll think of more later.
I do especially
apologize for that ridiculous and insensitive closing to the Newsletter. I
had to leave the computer abruptly,
and my thoughts are not always coherent when I rush. You know, when one
apologizes AND explains, both are somehow negated,
but mega-brat that I am, I've always had trouble with that concept.)
From Frank Blechman ('65) of Northern VA - 09/07/04:
No need for apology....
Critical piece of history is that Labor Day moved to September to avoid tarring
the American Labor Movement
with European (particularly Russian) connections. Everywhere else in the world,
the equivalent of Labor Day is
celebrated May 1st (International Worker Solidarity Day). The fear that American Labor
might merge with these
foreign
movements spurred the recognition of Labor in the USA, along with creation of
the US Department of Labor,
separate from the Department of Commerce.
AHA! That
does answer that nagging question! Thanks again, Frank! I'll be
adding your comments to the "Labor Day" page,
and hopefully before next year I'll be able to give it a better treatment:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/Labor-Day.html
And Sweetie, if you think I botched Labor Day, wait'll you see how I can mangle Columbus Day.
From Kathy Pilgrim Clark ('63) of VA - 09/07/04:
Thanks so much, Kathy! I'm so glad you wrote. We love hearing from you - and indeed from all of you.
I'm glad you mentioned the frequency and severity of the storms. I thought it was my imagination.
The Mystery of the Oysters was
this: I didn't know what that place was called, what the company was called,
when it closed, its
exact location, or what it became later. We all have become familiar with
that particular picture. I for one had moved it in my own
mind to the intersection of Lasalle, Armistead, and I-64 (if indeed those three
places actually intersect, but you all know what I mean -
the stinky place). Dave earlier had pointed out to me the water in the
pictures, which shook my world. Then, Super Sleuth that he is,
determined that the location would have had to have been there on the Hampton
River where the Radisson and the Hampton Carousel
and the Air and Space Museum and all those beautiful places are now. So
now we had a Then and a Now, and the images were
accumulating. Joe came up with the perfect music, and I found the midi
(which my #5 son, Nathaniel, helped me open) and lyrics,
so we were more than ready for a new page.
But we were still missing two
things: what was the name of the original place with the pile of shells,
and when did it disappear? At
about that time you volunteered to be our Hampton Historian - which you indeed
ARE, by the way! I asked you about the "Oyster Alley"
name, thinking it was possibly known as that for several hundred years, and we
could title the page that. You assured me that Oyster
Alley was a modern appellation, so I was still stumped. Therefore, I
opened the page under the title of "Oysters". Now that's no kind
of Old Stomping Ground at all (though admittedly, we all stomped on oyster
shells plenty of times).
With the image that Dave found,
we at last have a name - J. S. Darling Oyster Plant (and Boat Works), a
confirmation of a definite
stated address (Queen Street on the Hampton River), and the date of its closing
(after World War II). I didn't move to the peninsula
until January of 1954, and it was gone by then, though obviously it had not been
gone for long. The image from the 1960 Krabba still
shows it, but it might have been an historical photo at the time.
The point of this whole thing is
twofold. Perhaps I didn't adequately express my question. I do that
often. I know what I mean, why
don't you?!? Giggles!!! And child that I am, I'm easily amused and
easily delighted. This little tidbit was more than enough to cause
me to jump and shout and sing and dance. So I did. I really did.
Thanks again, David!
I'll be posting your Briarfield
remembrances on the Briarfield School page - as soon as I move them - which I
really, really hope to
do today! Of course, I entertained that same fantasy yesterday...
Thanks again, Kathy! And again - Happy Unbirthday!
From Rosalee Wills Jecmenek ('65) of TX - 09/07/04:
Oh, what fun! Y'all lie to send cards, doncha? Thanks, Rosalee - we'd be glad to do that!
Well, I had
things from three more of you - Jean Poole Burton ('64) of RI, Dave
Arnold ('65) of VA, and Bruce Korusek
(JMHS - '66) of VA, but I just had a phone call from Ilene Wasserman
Dillard ('65) of VA, and she's in NC visiting, and she's
coming to see me in about three hours! Isn't that so cool? I haven't
seen Ilene in forty-eleven years!
Ya know how
you're always asking me how I get things done, and I tell you I neglect the
important things? Like the
HOUSEKEEPING?!? I'm gonna FLY now! HA-HA-HA!
Y'all take care of each other.
Love to all, Carol
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From the Vine Came the Grape
(The Gaylords, 1954)
From the grape came the wine
From the wine came a dream to a lover
He was back with Marie on the Isle of Capri
With a million stars shining above her
Once again he romanced as they kissed and they danced
And even her wedding bells chimed
From the vine came the grape
From the grape came the wine
And for Tony, a wonderful time
With a song in his heart
He would sip another little glass of wine
With each sip he would cry
My bella Maria you're mine
From the vine came the grape
From the grape came the wine
From the wine came a dream to a lover
He was back with Marie on the Isle of Capri
With a million stars shining above her
Once again he romanced as they kissed and they danced
And even her wedding bells chimed
From the vine came the grape
From the grape came the wine
And for Tony a wonderful time
For Tony a wonderful time
"From the Vine Came the Grapes" midi (sequenced by Sal Grippaldi) and lyrics
courtesy of
http://www.smickandsmodoo.com/aaa/lyrics/vine.htm - 09/08/04
Vining divider line clip art courtesy of http://www.bravenet.com - 08/12/04
Kudzu image
courtesy of Infestation -
James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service,
www.invasive.org
at
http://www.invasivespecies.gov/profiles/kudzu.shtml - 09/07/04
