Gleaning Facebook: Snow

I couldn't help myself. I ventured out with tripod and little digital camera to enjoy this beautiful snow. I walked down Avenue A to Turner McCall, then up to the Riverwalk and down it to Fifth Avenue, then to Broad and down it to the Town Green (White) then to 2nd Ave, back to the Riverwalk all the way home.I am so sorry for those south of us who got the ice instead. This is gorgeous. So now I have a hundred pics or more to go through. I'll be posting a few more later tonight.

Carla Byram
Trinity pics? 

Michelle Moriarty Smith
Can't wait to see more!

Terrell Shaw
Yep. Editing Trinity pics now.

Jane Jameson
You make me miss Rome. Sounds like a great walk. Please say, "Hello" to Rome for me. I remember Rome having sleet more than snow. We had both tonight.

Wendy Ramsey
Excited to see them cause I know they will be awesome

Sharon Reichel
Too bad you wouldn't be able to come up the mountain--it's ethereal--and thankfully Mother Nature is already cleaning up after her bash. I don't even know if yesterday' paper got delivered before the ice--the hill was already past the point of a guaranteed safe trip up to the road. However, in the last hour the driveway is already appearing, snow is plopping, and icicles are crashing down. Out of the house by tomorrow?

And--the power stayed on except for a few blinks.

Terrell Shaw
I may have to buy a Jeep, just so I can get out and about on mornings like this. I really wanted to drive up to Arrowhead and take some pics this morning, but by the time I got out the melt was well underway. I would have really enjoyed the views up on your mountain, I'll bet.

Gleaning Facebook: Took by Tuck

My friend the late Audley Tucker was the official photographer for the Georgia Democratic Party for several years. He was also a friend of several well-known Georgia politicos, especially Ernest Vandiver and Jimmy Carter. He was a Carter delegate to the National Convention, among other honors. When we were publishing Out & About Georgia's Rome in the eighties and nineties, we did a feature one time on Audley that we headlined: "Took by Tuck". Here are six photos Audley let us use in that issue.

During the 1970 campaign a young Sam Nunn supported
Geoegia State Senator Jimmy Carter for Governor.

This parade down Peachtree Street on Independence Day in 1970 passed the famous Lowes Grand. A very young Hamilton Jordan is sitting in the middle at the front of the float.  Audley did not take this picture. That is Audley driving the Jeep.

Carter was inaugurated Governor of Georgia in 1971 at the Georgia capitol. Many well-known folks in this picture, even a Sam Nunn lurking in the shadows near the left bunting.

Amy Carter was only three when her dad ran for governor the second time in 1970. Audley caught little Amy playing with a mirror and her mother's purse at the Quality Court Hotel in Atlanta, the Carter Campaign headquarters.

Jimmy Carter and Lester Maddox had fought to a virtual tie for second in the 1966 gubernatorial primary, but Lester got into the runoff and prevailed over Ellis Arnall (for whom I campaigned that year), and thanks to the General Assembly Lester was made governor after finishing second to the Republican Bo Calloway in the General Election. But in 1970, Carter was elected Governor and Maddox, term-limited as governor, ran for, and was elected Lt. Governor. In celebration, Carter affixed a peanut necklace around the Lt. Gov.-elect's neck. 

The new Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, spoke at the burial of Senator Richard Russell in Winder, Georgia, on the grounds of the Russell homeplace.

 

Gleaning Facebook: Lock & Dam Park, Dusted

From the Coosa River Basin Initiative Facebook: 

 

Gleaning Facebook: The Board of Education

I rescued this well-used paddle from one of my schools. It was abandoned in the desk drawer of some classroom I inherited along the way. I am frustrated that I cannot swear whether I brought this south from West Virginia, or whether it came from McHenry. I think it is from McHenry. Anyway, I've had it for a half-century. As you can see it split at some point and was mended with first-aid tape. I wonder whose backside broke it! The first paddle I used as a teacher was about this size and was wrapped in black electrical tape. The kids gave it the honorific title "The Black Dragon". Yes, peace-loving Terrell, who had bragged that he would never stoop to corporal punishment, gave his fair share of paddlings between 1969 and 1977. I don't believe I ever spanked a child after I left McHenry in 1977 -- except that Brannon and Lillian each got one very light spanking. Neither worked well, and both made me more miserable than them by a long shot.
(Here's the story of the first I administered.)

Raymond Atkins
Ah, man, a Board of Education. I'll behave the rest of the day from just looking at it...

Terrell Shaw
So, old dogs CAN learn? 

Terrell Shaw
I remember waiting my turn in fourth grade. Miss Brown had sent me and a buddy to visit "Wild Bill" Cody, our principal. But he had to administer the "Board of Education" to an older boy first. We witnessed that big ol' principal's desk move about four inches in the grip of that young man, propelled by the force of the paddle to his backside.
I suppose our faces communicated our resolve to change our ways. Mr. Cody decided a warning was sufficient for us fourth-graders… this time.

 

Gleaning Facebook: Pinhole Cameras

(Picture stolen from the internet)

From Jackie Huether's Facebook:

It’s funny, I’ve always cherished pictures. And now more than ever, as a way of holding on to what isn’t there. I look through them on occasion, some I’m trying to fix because of age or damage. I see my family pictures one after the other, even though there is usually the one face missing(mine). I have always taken, enjoyed, and shared when possible,but they will never replace the real memories in my heart.  

Mr. Terrell Shaw taught photography while my brother was old enough to take it, I didn’t get the pleasure. They used old quaker oatmeal boxes and made pin hole cameras. Even had a dark room and learned how to develop their own film, something missed in the digital age. And even though I had looked through my family photos, I think that is when the real bug hit me. Either my brother or one of the other kids in the class, had taken a picture of a guy standing next to a coca cola cup the same height as him(cool).  

My first camera was a yardsale polaroid for $3, the film cost more than the camera. My next step was a 110(if you don’t know don’t ask LOL), very proud of that camera as well. then I finally stepped up to a little point and shoot 35 mm, and of course graduated to bigger and better.  

But the one thing that I do know for sure, is that it’s not the camera but the imagination of the mind that holds it. And you can take great pictures, but the most perfect ones are of your family (never ever miss that opportunity). May life hold in it’s hands all you will ever dream of, even if you only get to hold on to it a split second. Because no matter how long there life entwined in yours, when there gone it only feels like a split second.

Deborah Smith Yetman
Beautifully said Jackie.

Terrell Shaw
It's neat to think that something we did could have been interesting enough to a little brother that he remembers it nearly 40 years later. Thanks for reviving my memories of some great times and great students! 

Those pinhole cameras were a lot of fun. It seemed like only one picture in ten generally turned out well enough to keep, but the kids were always thrilled and fascinated with any recognizable image. Thanks for spurring some good memories. During my four years in that corner classroom at McHenry I taught mostly combined classes of 4th & 5th graders or 5th & 6th graders. Because of that I taught lots of kids for two years each and a few for three years, so I became especially close to them.

Exer McClure

Very well said! 

Gleaning Facebook: Trinity Youth c. 1957

Posted by George Barton on the Rome/Floyd County History Facebook page. :

Taken at Trinity Methodist Church around 1957-58. I know a few, front row left, Charles Ables, Middle row from left, George Barton, Suzanne Barton, Sandra Goble Sandra Popham , back row second from left, not counting the little fellow in between rows , Michael J. Burton, Y'all tag.

Millie M. Alvarado Santiago
Lol! Back day u looks nerd but u are way smart and wise man!

Bob Doster
Mike was kinda goofy looking.

Terrell Shaw
Some things change and some things stay the same, Bob. 

George Barton
I think the last name of the middle guy on the front row is Payne, I'm not sure.

The lady at the far right of the back row looks a lot like Agnes Goble, Sandra's mom.

Terrell Shaw
That's John Payne! I'll tag his wife Charlene Payne. I thought the fellow in front of you was Charles Ables?

George Barton
That is Charles Ables in front of me, he was a radio announcer for a while, and then went into real estate with his father'in'law.

Terrell Shaw
Is Charles Bagwell in the picture or did you just type the wrong name?

George Barton
Fb sometimes just changes a name for no reason, mine has Mike Burton on Suzanne. I didn't do it.

Terrell Shaw
I fixed Mike's tag. Could that be Judy Wessinger all the way to the right on the front? Might Susie Latimer or Brenda Davis be in it?

I'll bet Sandra Popham can name 'em all. I hope she is recovering well from her recent surgery and will take a peek soon.

Julie Spector Windler
Anyone know where Sandra Goble is now?

George Barton
How do you change a tag you made?

Could the front row right be Docia Hunt? I think she is on fb, I will try to contact her.

If Susie Latimer is in here, I think she would be middle row, second from right., sister Cindy might know a few.

Ann Gore
Know Mike, and both Sandra Goble and Sandra Popham.

Karen Candler Tucker
Is the lady on the left, back row, Mrs. Clifford Evans, Sam Evans' mother.

Karen Candler Tucker
Is Jane Candler Chumley next to Sandra?

Terrell Shaw
Samuel W. Evans, Brenda K Davis, Cynthia Latimer -- y'all take a look and see who you recognize

Linda Mackey Moore
@Julie Windler: Sandra Goble is now Sandra Popham and she is on Facebook. She is a retired teacher and still at Triniity UMC.

Victoria Smith
Great photo of you UG : )

Charlene Payne
I am not in the photo but my husband, John Payne, is in the first row, third cute little boy from the left. Could the lady at the top be Bernita Burton?

George Barton
Suzanne thinks the front row right is Docia Hunt too, and Jane Candler by Sandra too. and Ann Fricks to Jane's right.

Sandra Popham
Back row right is Agnes Goble, Docia, Jane, and Anne are right as named above. I don't think Susie and Cindy are in this one. Other names escape me.

Gleaning Facebook: George Pullen

I have never been sorry that I attended a funeral. I am always sorry that the occasion arose, of course, but always glad I made time to attend. I found myself at the second in a week this morning.

The (by my southren Methodist lights) “high church” ritual of an Episcopal funeral was comforting and reminds one of our heritage and our Christian traditions regarding death. There were several responsive readings, the Apostle’s Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, three hymns (including one of my very favorites that I have sung at several funerals , “Morning Has Broken”), a complete communion service, a processional and recessional, beautiful pipe-organ music. But the most meaningful part, as always at funerals, was the eulogy.

George Pullen’s family asked George’s friend and retired Episcopal priest, Roger Hoyt Ard to give the memorial homily. The Rev. Mr. Ard has a way with words and configured them beautifully to express what George had meant to him, and to those who have known and worked with George, and to Rome at large.

He described George’s optimistic, persistent, progressive political work, how George took Ard, when he was new to Rome, on a tour of the “real” Rome beyond the beautiful area between the rivers and let him know that our city still has challenges and people in need. They ate at a soul-food restaurant.

He noted that George was often a bridge “between privilege and potential”. George wanted to help end racial, economic, religious, and ethnic animosities. Ard said George realized that it is “the ordinary injustices that wear down the soul.”

George believed with Martin Luther King that “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.”

Ard talked also of George who had such a good time with friends at “Pullen’s Party Room” and how Ard stopped by once on his bike during his regular “meditative ordeal” -- bike ride -- to be offered a glass of wine and the admonition that Ard looked to be in need of a new bicycle (George and his son own a bike shop!) And Ard noted, with a smile, that George would be pleased to look out from Ard’s perspective this morning and see a “St. Peter’s chock full of Democrats!”

Finally he reminded us of Micah 6:8 and declared George Pullen a wonderful example of doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God.

Sheila and I have known George Pullen since the early seventies, not as close friends, but as friendly acquaintances and fellow workers for progressive and environmental causes.

The homily fit with my experience with George. From his brief progressive campaign for Congress in the early eighties, work for the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates, our efforts in the Coosa River Basin Initiative, the Rome International Festival that he helped to establish (in his "backyard"), to our marches up Broad Street during the King Day celebrations the last several years -- the most recent just a couple of weeks ago.

Last week I was reminded of living one’s ideals by the life of Pete Seeger. I am inspired, closer to home today, to live more completely my convictions -- as George Pullen managed to do so well.

We'll miss you George, but we are a better community and better folks for your time among us. Thank you, Mr. Ard, for reminding us so eloquently.

Christie Hufstedler Boyd
Yes, Terrell, it was a lovely service. We will all miss George and it becomes incumbent on all of the Democrats of Floyd County to carry on his torch. He would expect us to work harder than ever! We meet the First Saturday of the month in Pullen's Meeting Room at 9:30 AM.

Wendy Davis
Beautiful recap of the eulogy, Terrell!

Ringstaff Marilyn
This is beautiful Terrell. Would you post your note on the Dems Facebook page? https://www.facebook.com/FloydDemocrats?ref=ts&fref=ts
Floyd County Democratic Party (GA)
Floyd County Democratic Party (GA)

Monica Sheppard
Terrell, thank you so much for sharing this! I was so sad to not be able to be there and knew it would be a wonderful service with the love of so many in the room. Thanks for giving me a glimpse and thank you for being there!

Terrell Shaw
Marilyn, I'm not sure how to do that. You are welcome to share it there.
Monica, Sheila was also disappointed that she couldn't be there. I took a few notes to share with her, then decided to post it to FB.

Wendy Davis
I'll post it on FCDP page

Betty Smith Franklin
Thank you Terrell. This means a lot to me. We used to say we'd all end up in a modest retirement home across the lake at FJC where the old farm with its barn and silo looked so inviting. But, we came apart. the memories do fit us together with broken spots where the light comes in.

Patricia Buffington Jackson

Terrell this is a wonderful tribute to your friend. I deleted an earlier post of mine. It was for a niece that had just gotten her electricity back on. They had an ice storm where she lives. 

Gleaning Facebook: Brannon's Visit

Brannon wanted to check out the area's disc golf courses, since her friend John is a big fan of the game. Berry has two courses.

 

This is the first "hole" in the course that wanders around the Ford Buildings and Log Cabin Campus.

The mountain campus course begins (1) and ends (18) near the Winshape center with the midpoint (9) behind the Normandy Inn.

Friday night we saw RLT's pretty good production of A Few Good Men. Our friend Russell Evans played Kendrick the extreme Marine lieutenant.

The renovations at the Desoto are really sprucing the place up. And we look pretty good too.

Brannon chose Schroeder's as the site for the final meal of our six-week visit. Soft pretzels all around. Lillian out Megged Meg Ryan by ordering a Grilled Chicken Pita, but hold the mayo, cheddar cheese, and mustard but could you add spinach, feta cheese and green pesto please. I, of course, had the veggie on whole wheat…. with ham. Sheila stuck with her standby, the Salvadore Deli. And Brannon had a Crummy Pita. Can't beat Shroeders!

At the airport a passerby struck our beauty for us. He crouched, I suppose to emphasize that gigantic belly of mine.

Gleaning Facebook: Daffodils

 Spring is pushing stubbornly, resolutely, from the soil. Hope is still low to the ground, but I believe it will triumph over the gloom. Just watch. These little guys will soon "…beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze…" brighten our days.

Gleaning Facebook: George Pullen

 Sheila and I have known George Pullen since the seventies. Of course as a professor at FJC, as a Rome City Commissioner, and even a time or two when we needed some bike repair. We helped a little with his race for Congress way back when. Back in the days when I was editing the Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Quarterly George allowed me to use his computer equipment at the bike shop, sometimes at very odd hours and virtually all night to get the publication out. In recent years he has been the stalwart Democrat, who allowed the party to use his facilities for meetings and whose quiet leadership steadied us and focussed us in our efforts to stay relevant in a state that has, we believe, lost its way politically. Sheila and I have often enjoyed seeing and greeting George and Ann as they walked or jogged along the Riverwalk. I saw him out for a stroll on Broad just a few days ago.

We will miss him.

George Pullen (Click the picture to read the announcement in the Rome News-Tribune.)

Tracy S Lawler What a nice tribute to Dr. Pullen. I am sorry to hear about his death. Lot's of fond memories from my time at FJC.

Chris Frazier Indeed. George is a rare man, good and decent.

Sam Burnham He was definitely a very important part of Roman business, politics and more. It's hard to think of him not being involved any longer. Prayers for his family and others that knew him well.

Nena Dake He will be greatly missed. May God bless Ann and his family during this difficult time. What happened as saw him recently?

Kathy Vogler Steinbruegge Yes, he will certainly be missed!

Terrell Shaw Nena, I talked with a friend who was with George in a planning meeting -- for the party's membership meeting next week -- at the old Masonic building on Broad last night. She was also one of the friends who was at the hospital with him later. She said George and Ann left the meeting a little early and walked back toward their home on the Cotton Block. George collapsed as they neared the bike shop. He was taken by ambulance to Floyd Hospital where he succumbed to the suspected stroke a few hours later.

Terry Lewis George was a person who stood above the rest of us. I learned a lot about George when working on his campaign. He was always a gentleman with a wonderful outlook no matter the circumstance. George was the Marboro Man..tough,self-efficient, and hard working. But he knew how to have fun biking and traveling.

Tersi Bendiburg May he rest in peace.

Betty Smith Franklin He was a sweet man. Terrell, he once described himself as "timid." So, he came a long way to be brave.

Joan Ledbetter A major loss to Rome! 

Linda Bell I am so sorry to hear about this.....such a loss

Marsha Yancey Atkins A good man, he will be missed.

Ann Gore Thanks, Terrell for sharing. Sorry to hear about George. A certain loss to Rome!

Ann Gore Thanks, for sharing about Bobby Mobbs. Rode with he and Nell back in 1962 to Inland Container. Nell and I worked together and Bobby carried us to work....

Gleaning Facebook: Bush vs Obama

 One of them put us in the Great Recession, one brought us out of it. One created a huge deficit, one reduced the deficit at the greatest rate in fifty years. One oversaw the biggest stock market losses of our lives, the other oversaw the doubling of the value of the stock market.

Still the Ted Cruzes, the Rand Pauls, the Tom Graveses, the Phil Gringreys will try to claim we are worse off now than in January 2009. Sorry guys, I still remember 2008 and 2009. We still have work to do, but we're much better off now than then despite your filibusters and government shutdowns.

Both of these are honorable men. One is a good president. I am proud to support President Barack Obama.

(Now watch the comments. Some can't stand for anyone to notice the accomplishments of our nation under this president.)

Donald Murdock

Haters have a difficult time acknowledging facts. Keep it rollin', bud!