Principle and Pragmatism... and just plain competence.

This new-to-me iPhone photos feature is kinda interesting. Of course it did mangle the back Senator Warnock's had a bit.

Yours Truly with the Senator this morning.

Senator Raphael Warnock visited Rome this morning and I got to hear him. His stump speech is dynamic. He is clear-eyed and principled. He is also pragmatic. He realizes that America was built on tough compromises, so he is willing to work across the aisle always toward progressive ideals but respecting those who disagree and working with them to forge compromises that bend the arc of history toward justice.

Now, he has an opponent. As painful as it is to speak the truths that must be spoken about this opponent we all cheered for on the football field, we must compare the two. They are our binary choice in this campaign to represent Georgia for the next 6 years. 

Can you imagine that the opponent who has lied about almost every aspect of his life during and before the campaign with be an honest face of Georgia in the Senate?

Can you imagine that the opponent who spends his time on the campaign trail talking about werewolves and vampires can understand and negotiate the intricacies of the legislation he will asked to debate in the world's most deliberative body?

Listen to the stump speech of Senator Warnock. Can you imagine that his opponent could put his thoughts together so cogently?

Raphael Warnock has made himself a leader in the US Senate in only two years. He proposed, negotiated, and helped write legislation that has brought millions of federal dollars to Floyd County, Georgia for critical infrastructure and services and that has helped to reduce prescription drug prices, especially the prices for diabetes treatments. He worked to bring computer chip manufacturing back to the United States -- that's a big economic victory but is also important to our national security. 

Please join me at the polls. 

The Perfect Seven

 

My Mother used to say seven is the Biblical number of spiritual perfection and completion. Here is, I suppose, the last photo of the (ahem) "Perfect Seven" of her children. We lost my youngest sister, Beth, yesterday. We certainly feel incomplete now. 

This was taken by our great niece Hannah Yoest outside Trinity United Methodist Church in Rome, Georgia, one year ago today, after Ruth Baird Shaw's funeral service. L-R: Sharlyn Beth Shaw (Roszel), Charles Terrell Shaw, Deborah Ruth Shaw (Lewis), Janice Diane Shaw (Crouse), Lynda Joan Shaw (Turrentine), David Baird Shaw, Mary Carol Shaw (Johnston)

I'm so thankful to all the folks who contributed to my Mother's beautiful memorial service. I am tempted to name names but I'm sure I would leave someone out. I will thank three non-family folks again who were so loving and helpful: our wonderful pastor, Nanci Hicks; our friend Beverly Harris who filled in beautifully as pianist on very short notice, and Chip Rogers who made sure the service was live-streamed and recorded so those who could not attend could participate online.

 I watched the video again yesterday. Here is the link to that service.

Gleaning Facebook: Thanksgiving

 A great Thanksgiving dinner today but a mighty small gathering for Shaws. Thanks to Sam Smith for taking the pic.

L-R (standing) Andrew Lewis, Gregg Lewis, Terrell Shaw, Lillian Shaw, (sitting) Deborah Shaw Lewis, Ruth Baird Shaw, Sheila Matthews Shaw  

Gleaning Facebook: Who Is That Mustachioed Feller?

From Jan Crouse's Facebook - My cover picture is of Mother being escorted to her seat at my younger sister, Deborah Shaw Lewis's wedding. Note Terrell Shaw's mustache! Lyn Davis and Debi can be seen in the background.

 

Gleaning Facebook: Peach State Storytelling Festival

 We had a great time at the Peach State Storytelling Festival. I got to tell my winning fib from last year's Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival again. I was thrilled to see the dean of American Storytelling, Donald Davis, laughing in the audience. Donald's program tonight started at eight. He kept us chuckling for an hour and a half with three tales. Too late to write about it tonight. Maybe tomorrow! After a busy weekend and late nights I sing at all three services at Trinity in the morning. G'nite all.

David Jones
I know you were great

Terrell Shaw
Thanks!

Terrell Shaw
I wish you could have been there tonight. You woulkd have gotten a kick out of Donald.

Terrell Shaw
My fellow Roman, Gary Greene wowed 'em with his great song (and story) Cherokee Names.

Terrell Shaw
Martin Penland Teem I used your name in vain again!

Martin Penland Teem
I'm flattered, I think.

Terrell Shaw

Gleaning Facebook: from Jessica

From Jessica Rogers Facebook --

Grandma Ruth & five of her seven kids

Ruth Shaw with her children and their spouses.

 

1996? The Four of Us

 Where and when? Lillian could be 8? Brannon 13?

Time Machine: Georgia Democratic Committee 1987

 

Time Machine: Family picture

I do not know the exact date of this picture. Brannon was born August 4, 1983 and I am guessing we are dressed for fall weather. This photo was taken in Mobley Hall at Trinity United Methodist Church, Rome, Georgia. 

 

The Braille Trail October 25, 1981

Today the Rome News-Tribune devoted the front page of the Style section to the opening of the redesigned Braille Trail at Rome's Marshall Forest. Here's what the page looked like:

Here are the parts in a more readable format:

Time Machine: My First Day at McHenry

 The stamp on this pic is Feb 72, but it was taken before school started in August 71 - I think my very first day in the room. Notice the radiators. We were first on the raditor flow. By January, in order to keep classes toward the end of the line reasonably warm, our room was a sauna. We opened the windows even on very cold days. Notice the house directly across the driveway behind me. That is where the janitors, Nellie (Not Edith!) and Earl Hill lived - on campus.

Notice the partition built around the light fixture. Mrs. Nancy Helser, the Title I Reading teacher, taught across the partition - one light switch. We each heard every word spoken in the other room.

Tight quarters for a fifth grade class. I think I had about 25, but I'll have to see if I can find a count.

Sheila probably took this. I had been married one week.

I don't think I have any FB friends I taught in this room in 1971, 1972, and 1973. I still see Wayne Morgan, occasionally. I run into Nancy Edwards' brother now and then.

Time Machine: Campaigning for RFK April/May 1968

In the Spring of '68, several of us from Asbury, abetted by our history professor Ms. Ciccorella and her daughter, Pat, made our way to Louisville and across the Ohio River to New Albany, Indiana to campaign for Robert Kennedy. It was quite an experience for this rather sheltered Georgia preacher's kid from an arch-conservative "holiness" college.

One of our duties in New Albany was to make signs for supporters to hold up when Bobby & Ethel came to town.

These are some of the signs I made and that we used when we met the Kennedys at the Louisville airport.

I didn't use these signs though. Somehow I managed to be chosen to don a ridiculous sash and styrofoam hat emblazoned with Kennedy bling and stand in the airport receiving line as the token college kid among the bigwigs.

I wish I had managed to save more of the official campaign stuff rather than these silly signs!

Still it was a thrill to shake the hands of our next president (as I believed) and his wife.

At the time I was disappointed that Kennedy had such a limp handshake (Ethel's was very firm!) -- I have since heard that major presidential candidates end up with very sore hands pretty quickly, so I have tried to give him a little break on that score.

David Matheny

You met Bobby K.??

Terrell Shaw
Very briefly, but yep. Just a handshake in the Louisville airport.

George Anderson
Terrell Shaw "He was the best of the best."

Kennedy won the Indiana primary, but only a month later the dream was shattered by an assassin's bullet.

This is one of the official posters I saved from the Indiana campaign

Gleaning Facebook: The New Yearbook

 Carol, Terry, & Debi at the Trinity United Methodist Church parsonage at 307 Timothy Avenue in Rome Georgia. This was likely in May of 1965? Notice the stack of 45s on the record player which looks like it is playing, and the 8x10 of baby Lyn Davis in the background. The book looks like the West Rome High 1965 yearbook.

The 4-H Hour August 26, 1961

In August of 1961 our Gilmer County 4-H Club was invited to participate in the 4-H Hour television show on WAGA-TV channel 5 in Atlanta. Since Gilmer is famous as the Apple Capital of the state our program emphasized that industry.  I know that the county extension agent Lloyd Smith was involved in organizing our program. I think he drove the car I was in. I think Miss Mable Hensley helped Gloria Dover (our accompanist) and Charlyse Poindexter and me prepare for our duet "Around the World:. I remember piling into the vehicle -- there were no seat belts -- that was extremely crowded for the. drive to Atlanta. I remember that Ruel Parker demonstrated methods of grafting different varieties of apple onto trees. I remember that someone demonstrated baking an apple-upside-down cake, and that we got to eat the results afterwards. 

Our family went next door to Logan Funeral Home on Saturday morning, August 26, 1961, to watch the 8 a.m. program on their more reliable television. I was embarrassed that my voice was too loud and (it seemed to me) overwhelmed Charlyse's quieter voice.

I wonder if those videotapes were preserved! Wouldn't it be interesting to see and hear that program sixty years later?

 

Mrs. Parks Seventh Grade

Mrs. Parks Seventh Grade Class

Ellijay Elementary School

Ellijay, Georgia

1959-60

Comments from 2010

Tony Pope
Wish they still did class photos like this! Seeing the classrooms like this gives you an idea on the innerworkings of the classroom. My oldes bro has one from Johnson in the 1960s. Need to scan it and post.

Terrell Shaw
Tagged Ray because he has an interest in Gilmer Co pics

Martin Penland Teem
I still have my copy of this one. Good group.

Martin Penland Teem
The teacher is Mrs. Bryan Parks, not Janelle Knight--Knight was sixth grade, this is seventh.

Terrell Shaw
Where was my head, Marty! I know better than that. I fixed Mrs. Parks' tag. Why don't you tag some more of these folks. I'll probably screw up the names if I continue trying. There are several whose first names I think I know but the last name are fuzzy.

Wanda Mulkey Dagraedt
OK Guys....I tagged some more folks...and I still have my pic as well.

Terrell Shaw
Thanks Wanda!

Larry Ray
Second row from left, behind Lorraine is Douglas Montgomery, behind him is Janet Beaver, in front of Mrs Parkks is Kay Millsap. In that same row, in the stripped shirt I think is Calvin Sharpe. in front of Lorraine I'm not sure, maybe Barbara Parks???.

Wanda Mulkey Dagraedt
Hey Larry...the gal is front of Lorraine is Patricia (Nelson??)..does that ring a bell?

Terrell Shaw
Were there class pictures from 1958-59, or 1960-61? This is the only Ellijay Elem. class pic I have.
Do y'all remember --
- Paul Anderson lifting a bunch of us (15 kids or more) on an apparatus in the auditorium?
- Officer Don coming there?
- Crowding into one room to watch on TV Alan Shepard's 15 minute sub-orbital flight?

Wanda Mulkey Dagraedt
Funny you should mention Officer Don...Don Kennedy did a lot of voice work for us after we moved our Company to Marietta. A great guy and huge Big Band fan.....he was doing a Big Band show on Sirius. When I mentioned Officer Don, he brushed it aside...that was THEN....this is NOW! I'll have to think about other pics from that era.

Terrell Shaw
My cousin Don Baird was a news man for WSB radio for a long time and later for NBC and CNN. Don Kennedy was one of the radio guys that spoke at my cousin's funeral almost two years ago now. That voice was unmistakable. We still hear him occasionally on GPB's "Big Band Jump".
What kind of company do you have?

Wanda Mulkey Dagraedt
We do HD Video and Film, DVD/CD Duplication, Broadcast/Cable
Advertising, Scriptwriting, Interactive Training CD, just about anything to do with Video and Film and Audio Recording/Editing.
Digital Billboards....I think I left out the kitchen sink..my husband Dave and I have worked in Atlanta for 26 years with Fortune 500 Companies, Broadcast Commercials and Mom and Pop around the corner. We're both Creative People and have loved every project (just about) we've worked on. That's it in a nutshell.

Terrell Shaw
Great! Now I've got to ask a business question... I'll message you.

Martin Penland Teem
Take a look at the new tags and see if you disagree with any of them.

Terrell Shaw
Great job, Marty. Thanks!

Wanda Mulkey Dagraedt
Hey Guys, isn't that Wayne Parks behind Hilda Page?

Wanda Mulkey Dagraedt
Sorry...I meant Annette Stanley?

Wanda Mulkey Dagraedt
And I think the girl behind Wayne Parks is Brenda something...ring any bells?

Zelda Buford
31 in one class oh my!!!!

Terrell Shaw
And I complain about my 28 and 29 this year!

Carol's Birthday Party August 1959?

Judging from the ages of the kids I guessing this was 1959. It is Mary Carol Shaw (Johnston)'s birthday party in the back yard of the parsonage on Dalton Street in Ellijay, Georgia where we lived from June of 1958 till February of 1962 while Daddy served as pastor at Watkins Memorial Methodist Church.

Carol Shaw Johnston
This was my birthday party in Ellijay. Not sure how old I was - but I remember the dress I'm wearing in the photo. We have another photo of me at that same party. I don't recall seeing this one before.

Deborah Shaw Lewis
Oh! I remember that party was SO much fun! Thanks for sharing the photo.

Terrell Shaw
Y'all do some more tagging if you can. Is that Beth in the rocker in the background? Is that Patsy Jo with the bow in her hair? Which one, if any, is me? Must be some Westmoreland boys there.

Thom Holt
I do not know Richi Holt but he is a Holt "showoff"

Terrell Shaw
Richie was a great kid, my age, who lived with several siblings on a farm southwest of Ellijay. I think thta farm is under Carter's Lake now. Tragically Richie died, of cancer I think, in his late twenties.
Any of your Holts from Gilmer County, Thom?
Tag some more, Debi.
Is that Carol's back next to you? Is the next one me? I see the Patsy Jo Wimpee, I think. Is that name correct? Is Beth in the pic? Is that her standing up from the chair?

Deborah Shaw Lewis
Terrell, isn't that Carol, over by the tree, with the white collar on her dress? It looks like it could be Beth, back in the rocking chair. I remember NO names of children from Ellijay, other than Martha Weaver and the Westmoreland boys. Wasn't the one Beth's age, Hal Westmoreland?

Ruth Baird Shaw
Yes Terry..that is Patsy jo with the big bow in her hair. Her mother was the church pianist. Thom would be glad to claim that family of Holts. In fact we had two diffferent Holt families. All realy great people. Richie did die and Raymond...just a couple of years younger was killed in an accident...on the farm (thrown from a horse???...f i remeber correctl????) Carol they had a daughteryour age...Vivian...I beleive. 

Martin Penland Teem
I recognize the group and i recognize the parsonage. Those were good times. Richie's brother was killed in a tractor/mower accident.

Martin Penland Teem
PJ = Patsy Jane Wimpey

Terrell Shaw
Patsy Jane! PJ! Yes.

Terrell Shaw
Can you identify any of the others, Marty? That could be me on my knees in a white t-shirt? Or maybe I was snubbing Debi's party.

Ruth Baird Shaw
Martin...I have not been in Ellijay for a visit in about 12 years ago...so have lost touch...Do you still live there? How are your parents?

The tree, decorated with balloons here, is a Catalpa. Every year it was the host plant for many "Catalpa worm" caterpillars. Those made great trout bait. 

Time Machine: Mothers Day 1958

 

Was this one of my first efforts at verse or did I copy this? I don't know.

The little poem was stapled inside this construction paper folder card

I think this piece of my "artwork"was also from my fifth grade year in Mrs. Anderson's class at Fourth Ward Elementary School in Griffin, Georgia, 1957-58. I was obsessed that year with drawing ships and airplanes and war scenes. I remember trying to draw WWII ships with dive-bombers and lots of fiery explosions.

Photo Archive: Junction City 1952

My Daddy, Rev. Charles Columbus Shaw, at Junction City Methodist Church in the summer of 1952.

Junction City (Kentucky) Methodist Church in the summer of 1952

Ieula Ann Dick Baird, Terrell Shaw, Ruth Baird Shaw, and Carol Shaw Johnston at High Bridge KY 1952.

Interior view of Junction City (Kentucky) Methodist Church in the summer of 1952

Rev. Charles C. Shaw greets the folks after a service at Junction City Methodist Church in the summer of 1952.

This picture of Deborah Shaw Lewis in the parsonage at Junction City KY looks an awful lot like her son Benjamin as a baby, and her granddaughter Monica.

The parsonage at Junction City KY

Rev. Charles Columbus Shaw holds his youngest child, Deborah Ruth Shaw in front of the Junction City, KY Methodist parsonage.

Do any of my family recognize these young ladies? Junction City, KY, 1952. That could be our 1950 Chevy?

Carol and I sit on the parsonage porch in Junction City Kentucky in the summer of 1952