Tersi's First Halloween

Best Facebook status for Halloween 2009? 

Tersi Bendiberg, whom we met and heard at the Georgia Literary Festival earlier this month, reminiscing about her first Halloween in the USA as a kid fresh from Cuba:  

“Decatur, GA 1964 Mrs. Tubesing gives me a pillow case and teaches me wonderful English words. "Trick or Treat." Carla and I come back, hours later, with pillowcases full of candy. I walk into our house and say “You say TRICK OR TREAT and they give you candy!” Papi, with hands at the waist said, “What a country!”” 

 

Gleaning Facebook: Matt Henderson Posts...

Hello, Mr. Shaw!  Great to see you again.  I hope you are doing well.  Thanks for all you did for us at Pepperell.  I cherish those memories...From the MONSTER crawdad we found in the creek, to even your daily serenading of Michelle O'Meara with the Beatles' "Michelle My Belle..."  

  .......Great times.  Thanks!  Take care!  

-- Matt Henderson

Comments

Michelle Moriarty Smith
Hey!!! I though I was the only one he sang that song to!!! (see what great grammar I learned at Pepperell!)

Terrell Shaw
"Michèle ma belle. Sont les mots qui vont très bien ensemble"

The truth is, Michelle and Matt, I have a Michelle in my class again this year, and she also endures my constant refrain. The old dog may learn new tricks, but he never forgets the old ones it seems.

Lennon and McCartney were right, the words do go together well.

Matt it is so good to hear from you, too! My students pull crawdads out of the creek behind Armuchee Elementary several times a year still, and salamanders and periwinkle snails.

Matt Henderson
That's awesome!...Some traditions deserve to be carried on throughout the generations. I'd love to see it when you have a "Mandy" or a "Jolene" in the class. 

And Lennon & McCartney were right about a great many things, except for one GLARING exception: Greenlighting Ringo on "Octopus' Garden"...What the heck were they thinking on THAT one??? 

Gleaning Facebook: Michèle Ma Belle.

From Matt Henderson: 

Hello, Mr. Shaw! Great to see you again. I hope you are doing well. Thanks for all you did for us at Pepperell. I cherish those memories...From the MONSTER crawdad we found in the creek, to even your daily serenading of Michelle O'Meara with the Beatles' "Michelle My Belle..."

.......Great times. Thanks! Take care!

Michelle Morioity Smith: Hey!!! I thought I was the only one he sang that song to!!! (see what great grammar I learned at Pepperell!)

Terrell: "Michèle ma belle. Sont les mots qui vont très bien ensemble"

The truth is, Michelle and Matt, I have a Michelle in my class again this year, and she also endures my constant refrain. The old dog may learn new tricks, but he never forgets the old ones it seems.

Lennon and McCartney were right, the words do go together well.

Matt it is so good to hear from you, too! My students pull crawdads out of the creek behind Armuchee Elementary several times a year still, and salamanders and periwinkle snails.

Matt: That's awesome!...Some traditions deserve to be carried on throughout the generations. I'd love to see it when you have a "Mandy" or a "Jolene" in the class.  

And Lennon & McCartney were right about a great many things, except for one GLARING exception: Greenlighting Ringo on "Octopus' Garden"...What the heck were they thinking on THAT one??? 

News From the Front (Part 2)

This evening was the League of Women Voters “Meet the Candidates” evening. I will post a new You-tube soon showing my answers. I was disappointed by the small turnout. So, I directed my comments to the vast You-tube audience that will soon see the video that I hope to produce. The best review I heard says what I hoped to accomplish, it was by a 18 year old senior at the high school, and he said, "I appreciated your passion."

Gleaning Facebook: Georgia Literary Festival

On this date I posted -- (Terrell Shaw) is headed out to the Literary Festival. We're gonna start with storytelling at the Library with Tersi Bendiburg* at ten. Y'all come! (Mother? Joan? Debi? All?)

Comments:

Ruth Baird Shaw:I am reading this a 11:30...I should have hung around when i went down at 8:30 to leave some of my books down to City Hall for Barnes and Noble to sell. But i just do not have the energy... Have a great day...It is not raining!!!

BTW...If you are at the Literary Festival (In Rome this year) ..go into City Hall ..into the room on the right with Barnes and Noble, you can pick up one of the last of my Recipes Rhymes and Reflections book ...with good recipes, 19 of my best poem etc for only $10.00.

Terrell Shaw: I'm glad you changed your mind and came to part of the festival. It was great to get to be with you at Terry Kay's session, Mother. I have enjoyed several of his books. I loved his quote:

"I do not write to tell a story. I write to discover a story." 

I know it is hard to convince children that you have to write, to write. The story/article/poem/essay is discovered in the telling.

Ruth Baird Shaw:it was not a matter of changing my mind. I wish I had felt well enough to spend the day. I took my RR&R books down for Barnes and Noble to sell at 8:30 and went back to pick them up at 4. I was glad to see you and Sheila and stay with you for Terry Kay's presentation.

Betty Smith Franklin: love that reading and writing and writing. You write to know what you are thinking and imagining.

* Note from 2022 -- This was our first time too meet Tersi Bendiburg. We learned to love Tersi and heard her several times in later years and kept in close "Facebook" contact in the intervening years.

Gleaning Facebook: Marrying Our Record Collection

When Sheila and I married we discovered we each had copies of several of the same LP albums. This was one of those and one of our favorites. We did not have a TV at home for many years but we did have a record player and it got a lot of use. This one got a lot of play, as did the Fifth Dimension, Peter Paul & Mary (of course), Crosby Stills Nash, Pete Seeger, and the early Beatles. So I simple posted the photo and elicited some comments from my friends:

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Chandler Gray:  Gone to Carolina is one of my faves

Terrell Shaw: This was one of several albums that we discovered we had two of, when Sheila and I merged our collections in 1971.

Chandler Gray: Well you should have known right there that she was the one. Jenn and I are 6 years apart and she never watched shows like "Sanford and Son" or listened to the same music I did.

This was the ALBUM with Sweet Baby James, Fire and Rain, and Steamroller. GOOD STUFF.

Rhonda Ingram Bramblette: I have had this one for decades,myself! Have the CD in the old mini-van right now.....I Almost named Quincy, Carolina!! LOL!!

David Promis: This is an "album" that brings back some wonderful memories for me!

 

Gleaning Facebook: From Junaluska to Blairsville

We gathered on the porch this morning to sing a few hymns and Mother led a devotion.

Sheila and I drove by the Buena Vista cabin that our family rented a time or two during the sixties for our family vacation at Junaluska.

A front view of Buena Vista. It is directly across the little road from the lake.

An Anhinga was drying its feathers just in front of the cabin.

Then up to the cross for a few pics.

  

We stopped at the same spot I had photographed on Friday to admire the continuing change of leaf color -- dramatic in two days!

An overlook farther south near the Georgia line. Less color in them thar hills.

I have not perfected the one-armed self-portrait that Brannon is so adept at.

Turning around from the last pic, the color behind us was outstanding.

In Blairsville we took a break from driving to enjoy the annual Sorghum Festival. Here a chain saw artist works.

The mule crushes the cane in the mill. It is boiled in open huge open pans until it is reduced to the thick delicious sorghum syrup that is the absolute best thing to pour over hot pancakes, We bought a quart.

One of these days we will break down and buy one of these silly faces to put on one of our trees.

This fellow "moonshine Bill" (or Henry or somesuch) demonstrated the care and tending of sourmash. Unfortunately for connoisseurs of white lightning, tomorrow never comes.

 

Gleaning Facebook: Sentimental Journey Along Dalton Street

Our home from the summer of 1958 until February of 1962 was the nice brick parsonage of Watkins Memorial Methodist Church in Ellijay, Georgia. It was a rude surprise to find that house gone. Here are the pictures I took today of the site. 

Our front porch view was great. Look at those mountains.

From the outdoor chapel toward the funeral home. The rear potion of the funeral home is still original but the building has been greatly expanded toward he street.

Looking toward the parsonage site from Dalton St. in front of the funeral home.

Sighting along what would have been the line between the parsonage lot and our next neighbor.

Looking back toward the funeral home from the front north corner of the parsonage lot.

View from the side door of Logan Funeral home that used to face our breezeway between Daddy's office and the main part of the house.

More Pictures from Junaluska

The tabernacle from across the lake.

An unusual puppy.

Gregg enjpoying the breezy porch of the Lagoalinda Inn.

Debi regaling us with a story at breakfast.

Joan regaling us with a story at breakfast.

Documenting the the typical Gilbert breakfast.

The Porch

... my new diet starts tomorrow.

Temptation...

I left in the fellow at the lower right to give scale to these musicians.

We arrived at the festival just in time for some magnificent clogging.

Gleaning Facebook: The Shaws at Lake Junaluska

The Shaw family rented the Lagolinda Inn at Lake Junaluska, NC for a family reunion. We have a history with this Methodist retreat center. Our family took several trips there when I was a kid. My own 

Lagoalida Inn, Lake Junaluska, NC.

Chief Junaluska

 

Fall is definitely farther along here than at Rome.

Coot

Dogwood

Sassafras

 

   

Flaming maple

Lisette and Jonathan on the walk around the lake.

The tabernacle