Monthly Archives: November 2010
Horse Soldiers Pictures Found
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John Wayne poses with some teenagers on the set. I’d appreciate it if anyone can supply names.
(Urbach Collection, Cammie G. Henry Research Center)
William Holden with? If you know her, let me know.
All Saint’s Eve, Trinity Parish Church
Our Parish Church Choir, with some help from University Music Faculty sang Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem on All Saint’s Eve. My wife Kathy, along with Michael Rorex and Terrie Sanders were soloists. Particularly nice was the Pie Jesu with the two sopranos. That morning, we had six baptisms during the service and we called a roll of our own Saints who have passed from this life.
One of my favorite touches are tables in the front of the church with photos of those we love, even though they are gone.
Kathy’s Dogwood Tree
This little dogwood is about nineteen years old, and just about six feet tall. A couple years after the boys and I planted it, Coco, our Lab puppy chewed it up, and almost killed it. I let it alone, trimming what I needed to, and it came back. Then a few years later, in 2002 a limb fell out of our oak tree, and smashed it to the ground. It is back, and blooms almost every year. I like seeing it from my window as it is one of the few trees that change color here in the fall.
Christmas Fest Fireworks, 1950
I am going through some pictures from the Urbach Collection here at the Cammie G. Henry Research Center, and I found this one of the Christmas Festival fireworks in 1950. Click on the image for a larger view, and you’ll note that people are sitting on the river bank, just about fifty feet from the fireworks launch! Things sure have changed!