tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28734044142665841362024-03-18T14:08:50.624-04:00My Appalachian LifeAn ever growing site of non-fiction,flotsam, fiction,memoir,autobiography,literature,history, ethnography, and book reviews about Appalachia, Appalachian Culture, and how to keep it alive!!! Also,how to pronounce the word: Ap-uh-latch-uh. Billy Ed Wheeler said that his mother always said,"Billy, if you don't quit, I'm going to throw this APPLE AT CHA" Those two ways are correct. All The Others Are Wrong.Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.comBlogger460125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-7929084440257634082024-03-07T07:48:00.004-05:002024-03-07T07:48:36.453-05:00Right Wing Radical Repugnicans In Frankfort Declare War On The Working Class<p style="text-align: justify;">On February 10, 2024, I wrote in a blog post about <a href="https://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-most-unjustifiably-ambitious-state.html" target="_blank">the current Kentucky state legislature</a> and their active effort to become the worst legislature in America. I had promised at that time to continue to write about their effort to destroy democracy and individual constitutional rights in the state. I have to admit that I have been remiss in not having written about them on a daily basis since they have been working on a daily basis to pull off their plan. This post in particular is about one pending piece of legislation which is as diabolical as anything passed in any state legislature in the nation. It is literally a declaration of war on the entire working class in the state. It is labeled House Bill 500 and the key elements of it are listed in the image below which is from the <a href="https://ky.aflcio.org/news" target="_blank">Kentucky State AFL-CIO</a>. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <img alt="May be an image of text" class="x1ey2m1c xds687c x5yr21d x10l6tqk x17qophe x13vifvy xh8yej3 xl1xv1r" height="640" src="https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/429934992_1126402684982686_360075610002606029_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640&_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=_MW3P2itFKQAX8tss33&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&oh=00_AfAPQ5niq-BL6EFf3-kTV5X2kqq6ip7Wn5CWy2UNCcFuGw&oe=65EF40A3" width="524" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> As you can see in the image above, House Bill 500 will repeal several elements of pro-labor legislation which have been considered sacrosanct all across America for more than 50 to 100 years. Union men and women literally fought and died for these rights all across the United States and the working class has grown to assume that they would never be attacked or eliminated in a democratic country or state. But Kentucky is no longer a democratic state. By the phrase "Kentucky is n o longer a democratic state", I do not mean that the state is being run by Right Wing Radical Repugnicans which it is except for the governor and his appointed staff. I mean that the Right Wing Radical Repugnicans in the state legislature and the majority of statewide elected offices have been working to destroy democracy in Kentucky on a daily basis since they gained control of the majority of the elected offices in the state. When a state legislature even quietly considers taking away the rights of workers to have a designated lunch period, a designated break or rest period, or to receive overtime pay if they are forced to work 7 days in a row, or the other rights they want to destroy with this legislation, they are declaring war on the entire working class in the state. And the only reasonable response to such an act must be for the working class to declare war on that state legislature and remove every one of them from office in the November 2024 election. A vote for any Right Wing Radical Repugnican for any office in Kentucky is a vote against the working class; against teachers, nurses, EMT's, police officers, and every other blue collar worker in the state. This is a link to <a href="https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/lrcsearch#tabs-6" target="_blank">House Bill 500</a> as described above. You can go to this link and read the bill for yourself to see exactly what it and its sponsors intend to destroy. This bill will literally rob every worker in the state of their individual and collective rights to have a decent, acceptable working environment. Every legislator who votes for this bill or even speaks out loud in favor of it must be voted out of office in the November election. We must remove these people from office all across the state and we must give Governor Andy Beshear a Democratic majority in both houses of the legislature for the last three years of his term so all the actions of this legislature can be repealed, revoked, and never again be thought of in this state. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/lexington/comments/1b75h1a/phillip_pratt_r_who_is_sponsoring_hb_500_is_also/" target="_blank">Phillip Pratt is the original sponsor of House Bill 500</a> and is also sponsoring another bill, House Bill 255 which is intended to weaken child labor laws in the state. He must be defeated and so must any other public figure at any level in the state of Kentucky who votes for, publicly speaks out in support of, or commits any act in defense of these two bills. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JIGxbp-3mmXecw1YBPwlTsjshGwdMTK8TF7IkWj7UHcd1KsKajRXHHpnsiRuHlymGS0BeGeTwaKpds9PX97y2MUeNLuHYgKHAWlK_Y0_0xb4Vvo36pWbsnhMWYU6I4YZDjIqQ0HzuhKS9eLOP8cl95n3YfxJgtZeU0Yek9ot4b-Tr5PJ1MU_5HbK-lyN/s384/nunst026.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="384" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JIGxbp-3mmXecw1YBPwlTsjshGwdMTK8TF7IkWj7UHcd1KsKajRXHHpnsiRuHlymGS0BeGeTwaKpds9PX97y2MUeNLuHYgKHAWlK_Y0_0xb4Vvo36pWbsnhMWYU6I4YZDjIqQ0HzuhKS9eLOP8cl95n3YfxJgtZeU0Yek9ot4b-Tr5PJ1MU_5HbK-lyN/s320/nunst026.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-85679714583081674672024-03-06T17:56:00.006-05:002024-03-06T17:56:41.678-05:00Hawley Warrens, Old Regular Baptist Minister, 1889--1977<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMgUrftqUePbz_As8xnlksXq6xzVkNXf7QmMXxBcXSiJwinWiTTEZBoyvPCCMr0pYbRfyzwY-zVahG_Sba3SePjRYi5ta4Vi37Ove3NWXLZXTmL3pToFZpUKeJmZOSiEJYajSxDicglbbT-1LUfY7qKP___eUV100Hi1MAyNvdmxMp48Bm4YvWoMfAHGb/s444/HawleyWarrens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMgUrftqUePbz_As8xnlksXq6xzVkNXf7QmMXxBcXSiJwinWiTTEZBoyvPCCMr0pYbRfyzwY-zVahG_Sba3SePjRYi5ta4Vi37Ove3NWXLZXTmL3pToFZpUKeJmZOSiEJYajSxDicglbbT-1LUfY7qKP___eUV100Hi1MAyNvdmxMp48Bm4YvWoMfAHGb/s320/HawleyWarrens.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hawley Warrens was a long term minister of the Old Regular Baptist Church, New Salem Association, and served as the long term moderator of the Steele's Creek Old Regular Baptist Church. He was born in Floyd County Kentucky at Minnie in 1889 and died at Hi Hat in 1977. But he had lived the majority of his life on a farm at Dema in Knott County about a mile and a half south of the Floyd/Knott County line on Right Beaver Creek. I apologize for the poor quality of the photo which I have located in the obituary in the Floyd County Times. He was the son of Whitt Warrens and Nance Moore Warrens. His first wife was Caroline Moore Warrens and they had eight children, five boys and three girls. Caroline died very young in her middle forties and Hawley then married Mandy Layne who also died before Hawley. He was also married later in life to Dorothy Little Warrens. He joined the Old Regular Baptist Church in 1914 when he was about 25. He had been a member of the church for about 63 years at the time of his death. About 5 years after he joined the church, he was ordained as a minister in 1919 and continued to preach and work as an officer of the church for most of the remainder of his life. His funeral was conducted at the Old Beaver New Salem Association Building on Left Beaver Creek in Floyd County near Minnie. Due to his long service to the church and association, his funeral was attended by large numbers of people from the entire area served by the New Salem Association. He had been one of the best loved and most respected members and ministers of the New Salem Association. He was buried in the Turner Cemetery at Dema near the farm where he had lived most of his life. <br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-53940196190764040462024-03-05T14:19:00.001-05:002024-03-05T14:19:20.335-05:00"Hungarian Recipes" Reflections On An Intriguing Cookbook From The Magyar Evangelical and Reformed Church in Elyria, Ohio, 1957<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghaH0DlZ3ijX-dAKLDZZCm8DxVmFtja0jrznOgZ_yOF32uYqfqTHvn2BpY21mGG8ALReVnqmrgIkX7EUhqm3YboAmgXT55p03TFh47eqX7Tb1uAW0LM0yWin-nlO6T02XUTssVYjU7pFLY7ls35vch9XKyrqeq1pxjDRfsV9-EJjIaneBn48ECiofEpB6m/s1200/Hungarian.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghaH0DlZ3ijX-dAKLDZZCm8DxVmFtja0jrznOgZ_yOF32uYqfqTHvn2BpY21mGG8ALReVnqmrgIkX7EUhqm3YboAmgXT55p03TFh47eqX7Tb1uAW0LM0yWin-nlO6T02XUTssVYjU7pFLY7ls35vch9XKyrqeq1pxjDRfsV9-EJjIaneBn48ECiofEpB6m/s320/Hungarian.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I love food. I like to cook but I don't claim to be a good cook. I also love cookbooks, especially interesting, odd, unusual cookbooks, and I have bought cookbooks which fit that description for many years at yard sales and discount stores such as Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc. I don't even remember when or where I bought this little cookbook but I strayed into it again and, due to the fact that it is a piece of work from a truly unique cultural group in America and contains a few odd, interesting, and unique recipes, I decided to write about it on this blog. My copy is the 12th printing of the book with a copyright date of 1957. It is, amazingly, available online in whatever the current printing may be. In the copy I own, it labeled as being "Compiled by The Dorcas Guild of the MAGYAR EV. and REF. CHURCH 119 West River Street, Elyria, Ohio". The copy available for sale on the internet today is labeled "Compiled by The Dorcas Guild of Community of Faith United Church of Christ (formerly Magyar UCC)". My copy sold in 1957 for one dollar with shipping available for 25 cents extra. <a href="https://cofucc.thegivingsystem.com/recipes/Campaign/Details" target="_blank">The copy available today online is priced at $15.00 with standard US shipping.</a> Inflation has obviously had some effect on the cost of cookbooks. Interestingly, the cover of the book is exactly the same plain green it was in 1957. The only change is the address and name of the church. It is said to be available until December 31, 2025. One other interesting footnote to this story is that despite my not remembering where or how I came to own this cookbook, I used to have an aunt, uncle, and three cousins who lived in Elyria, Ohio. The book is only 40 pages in a pamphlet form but it is loaded with recipes. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For me, the most interesting recipes in the book would be the following: Liver Dumplings, Veal Heart And Lung Soup, and Kidneys With Rice. There is also one recipe for Chicken And Rice which calls for "1 chicken--using bony pieces: neck, feet, wings, gizzard, liver". The wording in that ingredient is taken verbatim from the book. Many of the meat based recipes also call for generous portions of lard. I am forced to wonder if the 2024 version of the book still calls for lard but I doubt it. The book also has a large section of recipes for dessert items, cakes, pies, cookies, etc. For those of you who might not know the term Magyar, it is defined as:<span></span></p><div class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SenseDefinition" data-psd="sense_definition~:&a member of a people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD."><div data-dobid="dfn" style="display: inline;"><i><span>"a member of a people who </span><span class="AraNOb"><a class="rMNQNe" data-ved="2ahUKEwjz1Lno5t2EAxVpnokEHQmUAeIQyecJegQIHhAO" href="https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6b6104bd345e318c&q=originated&si=AKbGX_pvY3MWP4azJI0Z_NruCLb833NO5o3O1wBrm7nxh0J_GcGEDIyEPvh0ANxC7sseux_QVt71l6TWUdvTjLHT4p11C-UmuTr7cQdUidNjIHe-qZXCuAU%3D&expnd=1" tabindex="0">originated</a></span><span> in the Urals and </span><span class="AraNOb"><a class="rMNQNe" data-ved="2ahUKEwjz1Lno5t2EAxVpnokEHQmUAeIQyecJegQIHhAP" href="https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6b6104bd345e318c&q=migrated&si=AKbGX_qNq0Y8zql7SxzZAf2-HTTOobGElQN66v_Fd5WdjzRvUiqPNAy5CkKTPpoCDDVjVAE04XvNiBYeWnX2aEuatHn7aMBtndlGQCd4IB5emCWoECHtZLA%3D&expnd=1" tabindex="0">migrated</a></span><span> </span><span class="AraNOb"><a class="rMNQNe" data-ved="2ahUKEwjz1Lno5t2EAxVpnokEHQmUAeIQyecJegQIHhAQ" href="https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6b6104bd345e318c&q=westward&si=AKbGX_qNq0Y8zql7SxzZAf2-HTTObSqsuB00wVHe3r70_nFms9z9UMs2nL-6HkN3pdjWWK1sCDgZi5_bd8re0yfqdvDCObaJhIadqND8kTaz6RtgNBILZQQ%3D&expnd=1" tabindex="0">westward</a></span><span> to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD"</span></i></div></div><div class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SenseDefinition" data-psd="sense_definition~:&a member of a people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD."><div data-dobid="dfn" style="display: inline;"><i><span> </span></i></div></div><div class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SenseDefinition" data-psd="sense_definition~:&a member of a people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD." style="text-align: justify;"><div data-dobid="dfn" style="display: inline;"><span>Basically, Magyars are Hungarians. For those of you who have spent your entire lives in Central and Southern Appalachia and wonder what connection there is between Appalachia and Magyars or Hungarians there was once a large community of Hungarians in Martin County Kentucky who were brought into the area to staff a large, cooperatively operated coal mine near Beauty and Lovely on the Tug River. This is a fascinating little cookbook and you can find your copy at the link above at a considerably larger, but currently standard level, price. I would love to try the recipes I mentioned above but doubt that I ever will due to changes in my eating habits over the last 6 or 7 years. I was raised on organ meats and love to eat them but I just don't do that anymore. If any of you readers try the book and recipes, please<i> </i>leave the rest of us a comment about what you learned from the experience. </span><i><span> <br /></span></i></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 20px;"><div class="wHYlTd sY7ric"><div><div class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SenseDefinition" data-psd="sense_definition~:&a member of a people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD."><div data-dobid="dfn" style="display: inline;"><i><span><br /></span></i></div></div><div class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SenseDefinition" data-psd="sense_definition~:&a member of a people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD."><div data-dobid="dfn" style="display: inline;"><i><span> <br /></span></i></div></div></div></div></div><span><div style="margin-left: 20px;"><div class="wHYlTd sY7ric"><div><div class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SenseDefinition" data-psd="sense_definition~:&a member of a people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD."><div data-dobid="dfn" style="display: inline;"><span></span></div></div></div></div></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-76910620899372747312024-03-02T22:41:00.209-05:002024-03-05T09:52:03.885-05:00Requiem For A Friend, Willie Elwood Isaac, 1928--2023<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My neighbor for the past 30 years was <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146702240/willie-elwood-isaac" target="_blank">Willie Isaac</a> who lived nearly his entire life on a small hillside farm about a
mile and a quarter from my house. He was born in 1928 and died in 1923 about one month before what would have been his 95th birthday. Willie and I had known each other ever since I moved to this
community in 1992 although we did not become close friends until after his wife, <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146702227/flora-isaac" target="_blank">Flora Cook Isaac</a>,
died in October of 2018 after 66 years of marriage. Willie and I had
frequently encountered each other in our home town of West Liberty,
Kentucky, at local stores and other public places. We had always been
friendly but not close until a couple of weeks before Flora died and I
saw Willie's truck parked in the local ARH Hospital parking lot and
inquired if he or his wife were in the hospital. I visited them there
as he stayed by her side during her final hospitalization and transfer
to a nursing home where she actually died a few days later. But I had
known for about three or four years that her health was failing and
Willie was taking care of her diligently, cleaning the house, mowing the
yard, and driving her to her appointments. He had finally stopped driving a couple of years before his death and, although he had no children, his nephew <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/263153075/jimmie-dale-wireman" target="_blank">Jimmie Wireman</a> had selflessly driven him to all his medical appointments, bought his groceries, took him to his bank and to the local utility companies to pay his bills. Willie had finally stopped mowing his own lawn at about the age of 90 and Jimmy had taken care of that also. But Willie had continued to maintain contact with his widely diverse group of local friends and extended family until about three weeks before his death. He spent a large part of most days on the telephone talking to his relatives and friends. He had continued to live alone with support from Jimmy and his wife Brenda Smith, and I also assisted him at times with minor tasks once in a while, almost daily contact in person or by phone, and one occasion when I had assisted him in getting back up after a fall in his living room. Amazingly, until just a few days before his death, Willie had maintained his cognitive capacities and still had conversations with Jimmie, Brenda, and I as we visited him in the hospital during his final three week stay due to kidney failure. Sadly, Jimmie, who was 79 himself, only lived about 9 months after Willie's death. But he had managed to complete the job of caring for his uncle's needs before his death. <br /></div>
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Willie and Flora had no children other than a son whom Flora had before they married
and adopted to a couple from the area who lived in Ohio and raised
him. After Flora died, Willie continued to live in the little three
bedroom brick house he built many years ago and where they had operated a
used shoe and clothing business for more than forty years. As
a trained and retired mental health professional, I was worried that
Willie would suffer from the grief, loss of socialization, and
loneliness which often afflicts the elderly following the death of a long term spouse. So I had begun to visit him regularly. It turned out he actually had a
fairly large support system for a man his age with no children. He had
two nephews who lived in the area and they visited him regularly as did several members of the church he attended weekly until he stopped driving. A previous minister of that church also visited with him frequently until his own untimely death due to suicide. He had a few friends and a
sister who also called him nearly every day to check on him. But that sister also died in July 2021 at the age of 100 almost three years before Willie's death. We had
developed a system quite informally where I either visited him or called him
at least every day or two. At times, Willie would also call me to remind me of a UK basketball game or some other issue in which he knew I was interested. Since I knew that he was having regular contact
with several others, I didn't always visit or call every day but we stayed closely in
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Not long ago he brought out a collection of photographs which he and
others took during his time in the Korean War in 1950-1952. He agreed to allow me to post them on this blog although he had never used the internet and didn't have a clear idea of exactly how a
blog works. But his mind was still sharp until shortly before his death. He loved University of Kentucky basketball, watched every game which was available on his limited plan with Dish Network, and read every issue of "The Cats Pause". He also maintained subscriptions to the local newspapers in both Morgan and Magoffin counties in Kentucky because he had friends in both counties and lived within sight of the county line. His memory was well above
average for a man his age and he loved to talk about his life, extended
family, and his years spent "in the shoe business". He and Flora had built a little building in the edge of their yard on US 460 and sold used clothing and shoes for over 40 years. Willie would drive as far as Columbus, Ohio, to buy a pickup load of shoes and clothing at a large Goodwill sorting center and also often bought large lots of new shoes from shoe stores which were either reducing unsold stock or going out of business. He also managed at some time during their selling days to buy a used shoe repair machine and also repaired shoes and other leather work both for his own sales and for customers in need of repairs. He eventually sold the shoe shop equipment to one of his nephews after he and Flora had stopped their selling activity. I actually have met
dozens of people in this community who talk about having gotten nearly
all their shoes from Willie and Flora as they were growing up. And after I posted this blog post, one person commented on Facebook that he had bought all his shoes for many years from Willie. And, interestingly, he also said that Willie had cut hair at times and only charged a quarter for a hair cut. But, in all the time I knew him, Willie never mentioned cutting hair to me. My <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2019/07/korean-war-photographs-willie-isaac.html" target="_blank">first blog post about Willie</a> was primarily about his service in the US Army during the Korean War and the stories Willie had
told me about his time in the Army during the Korean War. First and
foremost, Willie always made a point of saying that he was attached to an
engineering unit which built bridges and roads during the war. He always said "nobody ever fired a shot at me and I never fired a shot at anybody" since the engineering unit he was assigned to was always working behind the front building roads and bridges.
He also talked sometimes about one R & R episode he spent in Japan
during his Korean duty but he apparently had no photographs from that
trip. Willie did have a few photographs of other soldiers some of whom
he remembered their names and some he did not. I have added the names
he either remembered or wrote on the photos. Some will have to be
nameless. But maybe some of their relatives might recognize them and I
will add their names if you recognize a member of your family in his photos and contact me on this blog. Willie also never mentioned a unit
name and number for his engineering unit but a retired Army person I
know says that it might have been the 103rd Engineer Regiment. If you
have a definite answer other than this please tell me what it was and I
will add that to this post also until we can come up with a more indisputable
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walter H. Handley, Alabama--Photo by Willie Isaac and Roger Hicks</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr>
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same unit and Willie now says that man is dead. Here is his photograph
as identified by Willie. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bill Ison, Crockett, KY--Photo by Willie Isaac & Roger Hicks</td></tr>
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Willie also loved to tell a story of being classified as a truck driver during
his time in Korea. He said "They told us they were giving us driver
education and we were in a classroom for about a half a day. Then we
went out in a parking lot and had to drive a truck around the parking
lot one time and they let us go." Later he says, "One day my sergeant
came to me and told me to report to the motor pool. I asked why do I
have to go to the motor pool and the sergeant said 'They need a truck
driver and you are a truck driver." Willie says he told the sergeant, "I'm not a
truck driver. I never drove a truck in my life." He says the sergeant
said, "It says right here you are a truck driver. It's in your record.
You're a truck driver." Willie said he reported to the motor pool and
they put him in a big truck and told him to drive twenty or thirty miles
down a river to pick up supplies. He said, "I tried to tear the
transmission out of the truck on the way there but I couldn't." He also
saidnnb that on the way back to his unit he met two men in a jeep whom the
motor pool had sent out looking for him afraid that he had driven the
truck into the river. But when the entire thing was over, Willie was a
truck driver and was proud enough of it that he sent the photograph
below to his parents with the caption, "This is my truck." It seems
most likely that the truck Willie drove was a 2 1/2 ton truck commonly
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Truck Willie Drove--Photo by Willie Isaac and Roger Hicks</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Being able to survive driving the truck apparently got Willie a
promotion since he also sent home a photograph of another soldier
driving a jeep and added the caption, "This is the jeep I used to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hauser from Alabama" driving the Jeep Willie used to drive--Photo by Willie Isaac and Roger Hicks</td></tr>
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Willie also sent home a few photographs of himself with other soldiers
whom he could not name or simply did not write their names on the shots
including this one below. It might be "Hauser from Alabama" since they
are standing behind a large flat bed truck. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Willie Isaac & Baker from Central or Western KY--Photo by Willie Isaac and Roger Hicks</td></tr>
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Willie was assigned to a bridge building unit and also took a few
photographs of a bridge they were building over an unnamed Korean river
including the next two, one with an unnamed soldier in it. Willie told
a story that his unit was getting their water from the river a mile or
so below this bridge and "one day after they pumped a truck load of
water they found five dead Korean bodies in the water upstream above
where they were pumping the water." He said that he tried to not drink
anymore water for several days after that. He also always said that he hated rice and would never eat it after his time in Korea. He said that the Korean civilians which worked for the US Army would "roll rice up in balls about the size of a softball and walk around eating that rice all day long. I couldn't stand to eat rice after seeing that." One of his favorite foods was boiled chicken feet and as long as he was able to do his own grocery shopping and cooking he would go to Wal Mart and buy multiple packages of fresh chicken feet and freeze them. At his funeral visitation, several people and I wound up talking and laughing about Willie's love of chicken feet and I was the only one besides the deceased minister who ever admitted to having eaten chicken feet with Willie. I had actually been present at Willie's one day when that minister was sitting at the kitchen table eating chicken feet. Honestly, I never really cared for the feet but my mother had eaten them with gusto and I figured I owed her and Willie the one honest effort I made to eat them. Willie also talked often about how in his young days his family frequently went opossum hunting and ate a lot of opossum which few people eat or hunt today. Willie also loved turtle and in the first years of our acquaintance while he was still able to clean a turtle I would sometimes catch female common snapping turtles crossing the highway to lay their eggs and catch them and give them to Willie. He never turned one down until he became too physically weak for the job. I also love turtle but I hate to clean them so I quit eating them many years ago. <br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bridge Over An Unamed Korean River With An Unnamed Soldier--Photo by Willie Isaac and Roger D. Hicks</td></tr>
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The photo below, although unlabeled, is of Willie Isaac in front of what
appears to be a mess tent. Since it is a tent, I have to assume it is
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Willie Isaac In Front Of A Mess Tent--Photo by Willie Isaac and Roger Hicks</td></tr>
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When Willie returned from Korea, he spent some time at Fort Knox,
Kentucky, and eventually left the Army in 1952. He was discharged from
Fort Knox at the end of his hitch. He still had his discharge in a frame
hanging in one bedroom of his home until the day of his death. He also had one photograph of
himself in what appeared to be a barracks building at Fort Knox with a
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Willie Isaac and a fellow soldier at Fort Knox 1952--Photo by Willie Isaac and Roger D. Hicks</td></tr>
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"an 8" gun". Maybe somebody with military experience can tell me
exactly what this weapon was called. </div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite my fears about Willie after the death of his wife, he managed remarkably well for a nonagenarian widower living alone in Eastern
Kentucky. He did his own laundry until he was past 90 and his nephew Jimmy's wife, Brenda took over that job and also began bringing him home cooked meals regularly, At some time past 90, he got out a small steam cleaner he owned and steam cleaned his carpets. He also adopted and took care of a stray dog who showed up at his house and ate the food he offered
but wouldn't let him touch it. The dog, a pit bull cross female, seemed to have a serious history of abuse but I have seen her follow Willie in his yard and dart from behind him just close enough to brush a hand in passing. I also never saw anyone besides Willie ever get close to her before she died. One of Willie's favorite photographs was an old black and white shot of himself and a long dead brother in their yard as boys with a favorite dog from his childhood. He loved dogs but always said he didn't like cats and "never owned a cat in my life". He drove to church every Sunday as long as he was able and
did his regular trips to town for groceries, medical visits, and bill
paying in his brand new car he bought a few weeks after his wife Flora
was buried. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">He loved words and had a strong vocabulary for a relatively uneducated man in Eastern Kentucy and kept several dictionaries. He had actually returned to high school in the 1940's to graduate as he had promised his mother when he dropped out for a year to follow an older brother to Ohio to work. It was an incredibly rare event in 1940's Eastern Kentucky for a young male to return to school after having dropped out. He kept a wooden chair on his back porch which he had built in a high school shop class and given to his father. He pointed out to me a groove in the right arm of that chair which he said had been made by his father's habit of sitting in the chair smoking his pipe and lighting it with kitchen matches which he always struck on the chair arm in the same spot for many years. He was also proud of having used some of the first pay he ever earned in a regular job to buy his mother her first washing machine. Shortly after his marriage to Flora, they had ordered on the same order from the Sears and Roebuck catalogue a sewing machine for Flora and a single shot, bolt action rifle for Willie. He still had the rifle at his death and had killed thousands of squirrels with it on the farm which he inherited from his parents. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">To say the least, I think about Willie every day and will miss our friendship as long as I live. This is a photo of the tombstone which Willie and Flora paid for along with their funerals several years before Flora's death. Willie's date of death has not been inscribed on the monument yet but you can bet that Brenda Smith and I will see to that it gets done sometime soon. They are buried in <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2579351/isaac-and-prater-cemetery?" target="_blank">a little family cemetery </a>which is located on Willie's family farm and holds the graves of Willie's parents, a few of his siblings, and a lot of his friends and neighbors including a few of my other neighbors in this community who have died since I moved here thirty years ago. Willie, who owned the cemetery property never refused to allow anyone to be buried on the cemetery and had even allowed some people he knew in Magoffin County to have an unmarried friend of theirs buried on the cemetery. Sadly, his grave is still only marked with the common metal temporary marker which funeral homes use at the time of a burial. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh67fuDrDpWBVJhte3UMCYWW5R2NCRwn7ycgpfhlshDlDe1gfQnqU0jpsHlacqIejUbIQDCLhVQoUMAV8jpRFS43BBUulCqJNTl1zDzTAkfcGVRH77XCLZ55qkWiS5eTc6H6leDN2JpU4_1cltT4os6-kMwvFWL1-ZO43ae9NyicWubaBP3cUcY5uxtIhVw/s4048/WillieTombstone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2363" data-original-width="4048" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh67fuDrDpWBVJhte3UMCYWW5R2NCRwn7ycgpfhlshDlDe1gfQnqU0jpsHlacqIejUbIQDCLhVQoUMAV8jpRFS43BBUulCqJNTl1zDzTAkfcGVRH77XCLZ55qkWiS5eTc6H6leDN2JpU4_1cltT4os6-kMwvFWL1-ZO43ae9NyicWubaBP3cUcY5uxtIhVw/s320/WillieTombstone.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div>
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Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-22259337178019160272024-03-01T17:12:00.003-05:002024-03-01T17:12:26.539-05:00More Observations on Reading "The River of Doubt" by Candice Millard<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTIttW_3MvxhBAA4e6YOPdLK5M3g9_YwP3Dw8Rp5JyCw0rLsqK1ZJKLn3LuqV38Jh5GUq1yycjhvncwxj_j2yzfiIoaORKGL2tTeu_6ok5N83MwY62jsJfjX6m2lnjdtC6mvC0Jwks8Djd5SgRMkFiA_ss5USOvNJwW0STffvingTy3YGdF1Znay-dtysS/s1500/Doubt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="973" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTIttW_3MvxhBAA4e6YOPdLK5M3g9_YwP3Dw8Rp5JyCw0rLsqK1ZJKLn3LuqV38Jh5GUq1yycjhvncwxj_j2yzfiIoaORKGL2tTeu_6ok5N83MwY62jsJfjX6m2lnjdtC6mvC0Jwks8Djd5SgRMkFiA_ss5USOvNJwW0STffvingTy3YGdF1Znay-dtysS/s320/Doubt.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is a very short list of books which I have ever mentioned more than once in this blog. This is the first that I have chosen to write about twice other than a couple which I have chosen to discuss in multiple posts centered on brief, compelling segments of such books. But this book is so powerful, interesting, and worthy of extended attention that I chose to write this second post about it. Go get it! Read it! You won't be disappointed!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFnd3SPiXs8ra57QWIT0CPG529PAb8AzsK9ipM8Qs5P0PWM_brx_NlwK8muW6oPo4k6tP4m4RmucuW790PAJIZ5zs7CI7b7ApsZxee5HdjRVnFjoiB74E2V86zxdSlEg46pPU2NWWzA-7QKmxKoXYKfhX_RWzgFFOkj-5FDXja2IOG6E9TmE5UdmvWspw2/s2405/TRoosevelt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2405" data-original-width="1656" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFnd3SPiXs8ra57QWIT0CPG529PAb8AzsK9ipM8Qs5P0PWM_brx_NlwK8muW6oPo4k6tP4m4RmucuW790PAJIZ5zs7CI7b7ApsZxee5HdjRVnFjoiB74E2V86zxdSlEg46pPU2NWWzA-7QKmxKoXYKfhX_RWzgFFOkj-5FDXja2IOG6E9TmE5UdmvWspw2/s320/TRoosevelt.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Theodore Roosevelt In The Dakotas<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Most literate Americans will remember that Theodore Roosevelt was a former President of the United States but many might not know that he was also a well respected naturalist and explorer in addition to both his careers in politics and military service. After Roosevelt left the White House in 1909, he ran once more in 1912 as the candidate of the Progressive or Bull Moose Party. He lost that election in a landslide for a variety of reasons including having invited Booker T. Washington to dinner in the White House as the first African American ever given that honor. After this loss, Roosevelt suffered serious depression and eventually decided to go on a long, dangerous adventure in the Amazon. He and his son Kermit had spent a long period on a big game hunting expedition in Africa and both were accustomed to life in extreme physical conditions. Roosevelt went on a tour of several South American countries and was eventually connected with Colonel Candido Rondon who was a Brazilian military officer who also served as the director of the country's effort to design a route for and construct a national telegraph line into the most remote communities of the Amazon Basin. Rondon was also the first person from the developed countries to discover the river he had named The River of Doubt. This river had never been explored and its actual route or the mouth of the river were not known. It was truly and uncharted river which might or might not turn out to be a major branch of the Amazon. Rondon and Roosevelt were installed as co-commanders of what was officially named the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition. They handpicked a group of professional explorers, naturalists, and native laborers to join them on the expedition to float down the River of Doubt and map it's route, study its wildlife, and determine where it actually terminated. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_LI6QyznLkihaP73HyjSEQUmIMw418pPBL7H86DBWIKxPe_OVepolinI37bginrI4tFF7Z47Ik_db1kz5XngrXKaePolIoNTco64LiSRsOg3jSh-0uQnWjpXZ_y_zcEZvl-HVceyD0gttcJWsqCDo4Fnj-2KeBsU98wxisZ1VeiMnqL4l5DJ1TeGxUvI/s1600/Rondon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1086" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_LI6QyznLkihaP73HyjSEQUmIMw418pPBL7H86DBWIKxPe_OVepolinI37bginrI4tFF7Z47Ik_db1kz5XngrXKaePolIoNTco64LiSRsOg3jSh-0uQnWjpXZ_y_zcEZvl-HVceyD0gttcJWsqCDo4Fnj-2KeBsU98wxisZ1VeiMnqL4l5DJ1TeGxUvI/s320/Rondon.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Theodore Roosevelt & Candido Rondon</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Candice Millard was an excellent person to write a book about the expedition. She is a former writer and editor for National Geographic and has traveled and performed writing assignments in many of the most remote areas of the world. She is also an excellent researcher and utilized a vast amount of written records about the expedition to complete her book. She depended heavily on the journals of Theodore Roosevelt; Kermit Roosevelt; Colonel Rondon; and, George Kruck Cherrie, an American ornithologist who had several different species of birds and animals named for him because of his work both before and after the Roosevelt Expedition. Cherrie was generally conceded to have been a self-made man who arose to international fame after having gone to work at 12 in a sawmill. Millard also utilized official records of the American Museum of Natural History, the Brazilian government, and communications between the principals of the party and their families and friends. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDpscHEwDZnjZF7gkaJrRSK7rU_8QP9PUyz2RZG6m1QpoGo-srz7MLH7RiK-ISYISwk62EloekcGhK9qfeYNEf2ddOo9bR_h3cAHM7LF3dZ2QqUpE6tJ07vE-7-PTxO5lcDZw02iOR4GlLZ5RIrEKjsJ6qNoGmVqJaxBrjqWRG3nrotZDCXhmFjRrVeBS/s889/Cherrie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDpscHEwDZnjZF7gkaJrRSK7rU_8QP9PUyz2RZG6m1QpoGo-srz7MLH7RiK-ISYISwk62EloekcGhK9qfeYNEf2ddOo9bR_h3cAHM7LF3dZ2QqUpE6tJ07vE-7-PTxO5lcDZw02iOR4GlLZ5RIrEKjsJ6qNoGmVqJaxBrjqWRG3nrotZDCXhmFjRrVeBS/s320/Cherrie.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br />George Cherrie <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The book does an excellent job of describing the near disasters and one or two actual disasters which struck the group and their 19 native laborers on this trip into a thousand mile long river filled with unmet local tribes including some of which practiced cannibalism; the many dangerous species of flora and fauna along the river; and, most importantly, the myriad deadly and debilitating diseases of the unexplored jungle. Along the trip, the expedition discovered that they had been very inadequately supplied with equipment and food for the trip by the old friend Roosevelt had allowed to act as the purchaser of equipment. They lost their canoes one by one, eventually carved out dugouts similar to those used by the local tribes. One by one, they became infected with deadly Amazonian diseases and Roosevelt was nearly dead by the end of the trip. In fact, his disease required several months of recuperation after the trip before he was back to full health. Their native workers had also been poorly chosen and one actually murdered their most qualified native worker. He then absconded into the jungle to be seen one more time and being abandoned to the jungle by the two leaders. Another native worker drowned in one of the many cataracts along the river. One very dangerous tribe of natives made contact with the expedition and killed Rondon's favorite dog before deciding in their somewhat archaic method of decision making to allow the expedition to pass through their territory without further molestation. By the time the expedition managed to make contact with Brazilian rubber gatherers near the end of their trip, they were starved nearly to death, left with only the most minimal clothing and equipment, and probably would have perished if they had been required to remain on the journey for just a few more days. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If you like books about exploration, discovery, adventure, and success in the face of nearly impossible odds, this is the book for you. It is a relatively easy and engrossing read. It will hold your attention from cover to cover and will give you a close look at one of the most interesting presidents ever to live in the White House. It is also likely to leave you with the impression that Theodore Roosevelt was capable of performing tasks which most, if not all, of the subsequent occupants of the White House would never attempt. <br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-54814857727445100702024-02-29T07:33:00.002-05:002024-02-29T07:33:30.849-05:00"Storming Heaven" by Denise Giardina, Notes On Reading A Classic Appalachian Novel<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6E4s5dXRmkUrKwfjcCHd8ZXAJ_YDu8Jia4gEwXjTsKmfBDQ_qLIQ_nZy0jG2sF_ENkMLejlBFZ_gC5rFD8G9ER_37WlUQqLhyphenhyphenwx-I0sjrX5XYqRNfw4xh250PqaKCfE0h9V0f1VEc460YtuIAw1FTn4JUnCtebMnC3P4UESAAYeUFNiYq2QXVJN1MNDTm/s475/StormingHeaven.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="299" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6E4s5dXRmkUrKwfjcCHd8ZXAJ_YDu8Jia4gEwXjTsKmfBDQ_qLIQ_nZy0jG2sF_ENkMLejlBFZ_gC5rFD8G9ER_37WlUQqLhyphenhyphenwx-I0sjrX5XYqRNfw4xh250PqaKCfE0h9V0f1VEc460YtuIAw1FTn4JUnCtebMnC3P4UESAAYeUFNiYq2QXVJN1MNDTm/s320/StormingHeaven.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have often lamented in this blog that I frequently end up reading books far too late which I should have read long ago. This is another of those instances. I had known of Denise Giardina and her work not long after this novel was published in 1987 and had never read it. In fact it is not even the first of her novels which I have read. I had read her fine historical novel "Saints and Villains" a few years ago and, sadly, I have never written about it on this blog which I will try to do in the next few days. But, in my opinion, this is the first Giardina novel anyone unfamiliar with her work should read. Now, after having read three of her books, I don't consider this novel her best but it is the first of her novels about the struggles of coal miners along the Tug River and the border between Kentucky and West Virginia and it should be read before moving on to "The Unquiet Earth" which is the sequel to this novel and the book which I consider to be her best. And, Yes, I will write about that one soon also. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Storming Heaven" is a fine novel about the coal field wars of the 1920's in West Virginia and Kentucky, and is based on actual events during those incredibly difficult times when many brave Appalachian men and women were fighting and dying in the effort to organize the Appalachian coalfields. While it is based on that epic struggle, Giardina used her poetic license extensively in terms of place names, and rarely mentioned any historical figure by their actual names which I have to assume was at least in part a defensive action which she felt was necessary by the still extant willingness of the enemies of unionization to become overly and unnecessarily litigious in their defense of coal operators to treat their employees as being worth less than a mule since they had to buy mules and could always hire another man if their anti-labor practices killed or disabled another. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This novel is written by a woman who is descended from some of the Italian immigrant workers who were imported to the coal fields during the early days of the coal industry in Appalachia and she knows her story well. I would bet that she heard much of the content of this book at the feet of her older relatives on long winter nights in or near the coal camp towns in which they had worked. Her consummate knowledge of her material is refreshing at a time when it is common for other writers to grab one or two reference books and produce a second rate novel about some aspect of life in America about which they know little other than the probability that a book about their current topic might sell a few thousand copies. She knows the region. She knows the dialect. She knows the coal industry and its absentee owners. She knows the pain, death, and diseases which have befallen coal miners and their families ever since the first underground mine was opened in some remote hollow of Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, or Tennessee. This is a fine, honest, sometimes painful book and has easily taken its place beside other novels such as <a href="https://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2019/09/river-of-earth-by-james-still-book.html" target="_blank">James Still's "River of Earth"</a> and <a href="https://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-barefoot-man-by-davis-grubb-book.html" target="_blank">Davis Grubb's "The Barefoot Man"</a>. And this book proudly joins Grubb's work in support and admiration of the men and women who fought and died to build a union work place in Appalachia. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The book is written in a somewhat unique style with several different characters being utilized in alternate sections or chapters as the narrator. It is first person writing in multiple voices and it works quite well. Major characters include a pro-union mayor C. J. Marcum in Giardina's mythical town which is based on Matewan, West Vitginia. There is native Appalachian union man Rondal Lloyd who devotes more of himself to the union effort than he does to the woman who loves him deeply. That woman, nurse Carrie Bishop loves both Rondal Loyd and the mountains of the region. She devotes her life's work to helping heal the sick, treat the wounded, love the starving children, and support the union miners and their families in any way she can. But the one thing she cannot do is to maintain a consistent relationship with Rondal Lloyd. He comes and goes, fights every day to win union recognition for miners somewhere in the coal fields and usually returns to Carrie when it convenient for him. Many of the characters in the book are purely fictional but quite a few are clearly based on important figures of the union effort such as murdered Police Chief Sid Hatfield who died on a West Virginia court house steps because he supported the miners and fought by their sides in their effort. The book ends at the Battle of Blair Mountain in the only instance in US history when the federal government used the army to fight American citizens. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is a fine novel by a writer who knew her subject matter as well as any child of a coal miner can. It is an incredibly well worthwhile book to read. Don't pass it up, especially if you live in the coal fields of America and need a little refresher course on how good men, women, and children died to build unions and fair labor practices in this country. <br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-38805787220547981292024-02-28T17:30:00.007-05:002024-02-29T06:39:15.460-05:00On A Second Reading Of "The Silver Chalice" by Thomas B. Costain <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5w-GP4e67vuGOoYzXqthtkOjXFMKfF_7FBJ6oR4mdmWI3ZxTCRc-ZtBPnJgsVOmEILqEqK21rZLJ0EnUD8jBUU2HgK5TDQQxfi_V4raHbziAKmjN5km7HesIpT6uI75scEYNuwIqoFqr1LqUAbUsKSQ9vLsOOL8pfiMMPxZWXaJBC-gtxovbHiJfJVPF/s400/SilverChalice.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="286" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5w-GP4e67vuGOoYzXqthtkOjXFMKfF_7FBJ6oR4mdmWI3ZxTCRc-ZtBPnJgsVOmEILqEqK21rZLJ0EnUD8jBUU2HgK5TDQQxfi_V4raHbziAKmjN5km7HesIpT6uI75scEYNuwIqoFqr1LqUAbUsKSQ9vLsOOL8pfiMMPxZWXaJBC-gtxovbHiJfJVPF/s320/SilverChalice.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">When I entered Knott County High School at Pippa Passes, Kentucky, in September of 1964, I remember thinking that the little one room library was the finest collection of books that I had ever seen. When I began to write this post, I sent a message to my friend and former high school teacher Mary Lois Jacobs who was able to tell me that the books in the Knott County High School Library had primarily been donated by Alice Lloyd College and that there were about 2,000 books in the collection, mostly fiction. She also stated that the faculty had been disappointed in the lack of sufficient non-fiction in the collection. Prior to entering high school, the only lending library I had access to was a summer book mobile program which stopped at our country store at Dema once a week during the summer vacation from school. I had visited the Kendallville, Indiana, library a few times during some summer visits to my sister's home there but I had never been a regular user of such a fine library. Today, I know that the collection at KCHS would be considered woefully deficient in most public high schools in America. The other distinct memory I have retained from that time is that on one of the first occasions I took a lengthy, perhaps epic, novel off the shelves and asked to check it out that Cloys Thornsbury, the librarian, gave me a somewhat askance gaze and asked me something to the effect of "are you sure you can read that". I'm sure I answered "yes" and I'm also pretty sure I actually finished whatever book I checked out. Three of those first long novels I remember reading are this one, "The Silver Chalice" by Thomas B. Costain, along with his "The Black Rose", and "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas. I don't recall that Cloys asked me that question again after I had read, returned, and could discuss those three books. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Recently, in one of my frequent visits to some surplus store where I often buy used books, I strayed into a weathered copy of "The Silver Chalice", bought it, and committed myself to rereading it. I can now report that the mission has been completed. Thomas B. Costain was a Canadian born journalist and mass market writer who produced 14 novels, 8 non-fiction historical works, and 4 co-edited collections of short stories by major authors. His major novels were generally massive works with plots, counter plots, historical settings and characters, and multitudinous casts of characters. His works can be argued to have not been quite great works but they were well written, meticulously researched, and generally popular on the mass market. "The Silver Chalice" is an example of all those qualities. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The primary protagonist in this novel is a totally fictional young artist named Basil who has been sold into slavery by his uncle under Roman law upon the death of his father before he attained the age of majority. Basil's freedom is arranged by the Apostle Luke who does so because he has been chosen by the early Christian church to locate and hire an artist to create a frame to hold the cup which was used by Jesus Christ and the Apostles for the sacrament at the Last Supper. The frame is to be made of silver and the cup is to be surrounded by small busts of the Twelve Apostles. The freedom of Basil and the commission to create the frame are financed by the Biblical person Joseph of Arimathea who is the same man who is credited in the Bible with having provided his own tomb for the burial of Jesus. As the novel progresses, Basil falls in love with the granddaughter of Joseph of Arimathea and eventually marries her just minutes before her grandfather's death. But they have previously agreed that the marriage is one of convenience only because her father is not a Christian and would not agree to continue to finance the work after his father's death. The newly weds leave Jerusalem for Antioch, outside the reach of Jewish law and the Jewish high priest and his co-conspirators who seek to find and destroy the cup. Basil goes on a long journey to locate the living disciples and create their busts from actual memory after meeting them. Along the journey, Basil decides that he has not only come to realize that he loves his wife Deborra but that he also has been converted to Christianity. Just in case any of you want to read the novel and can actually locate a copy on some of the used book websites, I won't spoil the story by disclosing the conclusion. Just know that this novel is well worth reading whether or not you are religious. It moves quickly from scene to scene, from crisis to crisis. The characters are realistically rendered, both known historical persons and those who are purely fictional. It is filled with fascinating people including a Chinese prince who befriends Basil, Luke, and Deborra; an Arabic camel driver who seeks to become an important trader; a villain who is also a magician; and a manipulative, beautiful, and dangerous female assistant to that magician. Basil even spends some time in the home of the Roman emperor. If you can find it, I can't more highly recommend a historical novel. And, I was very pleased to be rewarded by those wonderful memories from my teen years by the second reading of the book. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-20997986230071856172024-02-26T15:24:00.004-05:002024-02-26T15:24:25.311-05:00"Oath and Honor: A Memoir and A Warning" by Liz Cheney, The One Book Every American Should Be Required To Read<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkgEYBUnlVLJhKvJIQ2xtf3WAJZwjYN-XtG3eOk2NbvymvIxeJvoKw28KLW53m4xrNihABxwAyY5qCI-yhI65z2qiG25cijQNL9gQ3x6xK4vlgcEpAgIvO6HxafXgKsbrsbE75E7SkJJdpqvwyZlfP1IKwUoTHgd7m-HsMuWxkgfiCQyF3UPAnynBeIQcG/s465/LizCheney.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkgEYBUnlVLJhKvJIQ2xtf3WAJZwjYN-XtG3eOk2NbvymvIxeJvoKw28KLW53m4xrNihABxwAyY5qCI-yhI65z2qiG25cijQNL9gQ3x6xK4vlgcEpAgIvO6HxafXgKsbrsbE75E7SkJJdpqvwyZlfP1IKwUoTHgd7m-HsMuWxkgfiCQyF3UPAnynBeIQcG/s320/LizCheney.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b><i>In the era of Trump, certain members of Congress and other Trump enablers...have preyed on the patriotism of millions of Americans. They are working to return to office the man responsible for January 6. We the people must stop them. We are the only thing that can stop them. This is more important than partisan politics. Every one of us--Republican, Democrat, Independent--must work and vote together to ensure that Donald Trump and those who have appeased, enabled, and collaborated with him are defeated. This is the cause of our time. (Liz Cheney, "Oath and Honor" p. 368)</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Liz Cheney used the words above to end her important and honest book "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and A Warning" and she is absolutely correct. Donald Trump and every one of his thousands of enablers, co-conspirators, and cult members must be stopped in their efforts to return him to his illegal and illegitimate occupation of the White House. They managed to nearly subvert the certification of an honest American presidential election on January 6, 2021, and they would not hesitate to commit any crime on the face of the earth to achieve that treasonous goal. Liz Cheney has written the most important book in this 2024 election cycle. No other book published before hers and none which will come after hers can more succinctly or more accurately can tell the tale of the political treason, insurrection, and domestic terrorism which they perpetrated against the United States of America on January 6, 2021, and which was rooted in the actions of Donald Trump<b><i> </i></b>and his co-conspirators in the White House in the weeks between the 2020 election and January 6. Liz Cheney has honestly and forthrightly told the tale of that insurrection and was fully willing to sacrifice her political career in order to see that this virulent and treasonous conspiracy did not succeed. She has also stepped forward to teach every citizen of the United States about the danger which this group of insurrectionists, domestic terrorists, and traitors present to America and American Democracy. Her book is truly the one book every citizen of this country should read in this incredibly important election year. Despite the fact that nearly a thousand of these criminals have been indicted for their crimes and several hundred have already been convicted and sentenced to federal prison, the conspiracy is still alive. The would be dictator and his cult are still working every day to keep the treason alive, to return the traitor to the scene of his treason. If you do not read another book for the rest of your life, read this one. It is written in a simple, direct, easy to read prose which allows a fast read but you should read it slowly, thoughtfully, and with an open mind. This is a book written by an American patriot who literally sacrificed a wonderful political future in order to confront these traitors and their treason, in particular to confront and hold the worst traitor in world history responsible for his treason. Give it an honest, open minded read and then<b><i> </i></b>fully and without<b><i> </i></b>reservations of any kind commit yourself to do everything in your power to assist America and American Democracy in this fight for survival. This is truly the cause of our time. <b><i> </i></b><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-68704223002515808732024-02-22T23:00:00.003-05:002024-02-22T23:00:28.842-05:00Ten Days Offline Was A Satisfying Break!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6F_h_KFAWEGEfhyphenhyphenTWGHexR1GylmgkJTg8wZxGHXlelNXS1iBBF5cI27Aw6jBvTUl0-8iyhGDQvRxWY3JTWgHgZxWfSnYLxJZAxAc591ilC-szo7tM0b31DBgTJrz761V3uaLxeK0hpa1PodLAPvxwKT2RkpUYidelNUXa8llkRDylQPcJr3QX-weFOYnn/s196/C:%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5COwner%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5CPipestem%20Falls.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="156" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6F_h_KFAWEGEfhyphenhyphenTWGHexR1GylmgkJTg8wZxGHXlelNXS1iBBF5cI27Aw6jBvTUl0-8iyhGDQvRxWY3JTWgHgZxWfSnYLxJZAxAc591ilC-szo7tM0b31DBgTJrz761V3uaLxeK0hpa1PodLAPvxwKT2RkpUYidelNUXa8llkRDylQPcJr3QX-weFOYnn/s1600/C:%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5COwner%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5CPipestem%20Falls.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">My personal computer died an ignoble death on February 12, 2024, during a stretch when I had been working more consistently on this blog than I had in quite some time. But I would also state that it has now been several years since I failed to post at least one new blog post every month. I have never had any desire to live with my head stuck in a an I-Phone and I consistently refuse to send or receive text messages since I fully believe that at least 90% of text messages are absolutely a waste of time, energy, and band width. This post is not intended to fulfill one of my long-stated intentions to write a post about just what a horribly lazy society we have become in the computer age. I have said many times that if I were still regularly hiring employees today I would fully implement a plan to test those employees for their literacy level before the interview began by having a secretary or receptionist advise each applicant upon their appearing in the office that they would be taking part in a brief pre-interview exercise. I would have the secretary hand each applicant a yellow legal pad and a ball point pen, instruct them to place all their electronic devices in a lockable box on the desk to which they would be given the key, and told to take a seat at an empty desk across the room to write in complete sentences, proper grammar, sentax, and spelling a short essay on exactly why they were the best person for the open job. It would not take any longer than that fifteen minutes to learn which appliancts had been the beneficiaries of the equivalent of a sixth grade education and which had simply skated through both grammer school and high school (and perhaps even college) dependent on their I-phones, laptops, and other electronic devices. My point in telling this little story is that no human alive today should be unable to spend at least a week without such devices and that they sure as hell shouldn't allow themselves to become dependent on those devices to communicate, spell, write, do math, or accomplish any other chore which a reasonably well educated person should be able to achieve with a piece of paper and a pen. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZd4RyuIipnHBnic7-MMxuvwpdgPGCmJILEweDyn6ypht9mQbwdyJL6bHM_PFjLYsjzLwI4652Z_hMfepBoDEY4Q6gnoJQ4_ap2viCojCeyMslBaEAFl7fIPmvqlsymlgInQUAXJcmHoCKG8JCnnKzMbDupIg_RLXoySPdzrN32UjB26FYrqRibjWW3Eo8/s249/stove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="203" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZd4RyuIipnHBnic7-MMxuvwpdgPGCmJILEweDyn6ypht9mQbwdyJL6bHM_PFjLYsjzLwI4652Z_hMfepBoDEY4Q6gnoJQ4_ap2viCojCeyMslBaEAFl7fIPmvqlsymlgInQUAXJcmHoCKG8JCnnKzMbDupIg_RLXoySPdzrN32UjB26FYrqRibjWW3Eo8/s1600/stove.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Since I have been a user of Facebook, the only social media platform in which I partake, I have twice taken a month off without ever touching it. So should all of you be able to do with regard to any social media program, electronic device, or other assistive technological equipment you regularly use. If you cannot succeed in daily life without those devices, you are not actually succeeding with them. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMsd-KLDE36bdmJH-Rk3ZzSP1XjNCSYq6vvsbJQZjIy9PQ5OLezJrc_aY00dit_0GYa_fwyHR3qscPOE2VfUscbdP7zYpIzBmrutIZfiFr-Cs89sUvmGnBVRVH5U9ElohJJ31KmcjeUanRaNmaX8BqNojlMeOZBNhMaadKdfj1W9RwTJXUmvjLttTTY02h/s269/country%20store.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="269" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMsd-KLDE36bdmJH-Rk3ZzSP1XjNCSYq6vvsbJQZjIy9PQ5OLezJrc_aY00dit_0GYa_fwyHR3qscPOE2VfUscbdP7zYpIzBmrutIZfiFr-Cs89sUvmGnBVRVH5U9ElohJJ31KmcjeUanRaNmaX8BqNojlMeOZBNhMaadKdfj1W9RwTJXUmvjLttTTY02h/s1600/country%20store.jpg" width="269" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">If everyone alive would spend a week every year without access to electronic devices, the world would be a better place in no time. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpQI8cNqViw8CJWBYUeWTxdpcRqhHja_XqONXXIFtHv38I5FyjQirBOLHCLVf6XWgXXOP__EzEva7onfGz5jhA7gKIoxY0xoTZQX7xNdtz63wnkh_a7mQjoObCH7ZBL-tVhEs-X303INgSaxHKTqa5eQm5YkCcEmLHLkmtOPGciKwFFWcu45d5wcdSCCU/s110/C:%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5COwner%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5CLog%20Cabin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpQI8cNqViw8CJWBYUeWTxdpcRqhHja_XqONXXIFtHv38I5FyjQirBOLHCLVf6XWgXXOP__EzEva7onfGz5jhA7gKIoxY0xoTZQX7xNdtz63wnkh_a7mQjoObCH7ZBL-tVhEs-X303INgSaxHKTqa5eQm5YkCcEmLHLkmtOPGciKwFFWcu45d5wcdSCCU/s1600/C:%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5COwner%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5CLog%20Cabin.jpg" width="110" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-65312594833052913712024-02-12T18:26:00.001-05:002024-02-12T18:26:32.933-05:00James River Region in Coastal Virginia <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgr5gVVYKCivwQUsGLVc33ks6s-IShOZSzdH3Pt3zJC0ZQlzjvS8SM1TeANXYf2KHAwspLOJxiw5CjS4nwor4Vam1gFz_BGgDDvTuPVrfKZsQltfiKI7Zjr54X_2M2dleGeF0Rwhwv5cFu1teLMgujGF43n4uwuYpp4GyV9K3tPNRGb1guKd0-F0fpaA3s/s275/AppMap.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgr5gVVYKCivwQUsGLVc33ks6s-IShOZSzdH3Pt3zJC0ZQlzjvS8SM1TeANXYf2KHAwspLOJxiw5CjS4nwor4Vam1gFz_BGgDDvTuPVrfKZsQltfiKI7Zjr54X_2M2dleGeF0Rwhwv5cFu1teLMgujGF43n4uwuYpp4GyV9K3tPNRGb1guKd0-F0fpaA3s/s1600/AppMap.jpeg" width="275" /></a></div><br /> As I mentioned in an earlier post about <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2022/12/i-am-in-process-of-reading-book-by-bob.html" target="_blank">Virginia Colonial Governor Berkeley</a>,
I have been reading a surprisingly wonderful book by Bob Deans called
"The River Where America Began: A Journey Along The James". While the
book is about the history of the settlement of the James River Region in
Coastal Virginia and the role it played in the early history of
colonial America and the American Revolution, Deans also periodically
provides his own insightful examinations of the history of democracy in
America. The short section of the book which I quote below is one of
the most pertinent of those insightful examinations. <br /><p></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-69716900242092751522024-02-11T15:58:00.035-05:002024-02-11T16:36:09.656-05:00The Sad State Of Both Education And Politics In America And Appalachia Today<p style="text-align: center;"> <b>An Update To Two Earlier Blog Posts</b><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibc6b_i2NHvhe9vkwsKB3lOCfv6NDaUnwex8tKhlnjgAjzmk5IgHseat4hjubh63oWepO_zpaNdcR_pz97-35t4raqlpJ37j2urK52XjpccfBpakvqO21k7y1V9QF1BWJ616r9xj8qq_vNN9hoMD4SYxeVh9fQSzDDPbrKRO5V_rCFqBBStGTF_LJ0fJSR/s1800/Flag.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1800" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibc6b_i2NHvhe9vkwsKB3lOCfv6NDaUnwex8tKhlnjgAjzmk5IgHseat4hjubh63oWepO_zpaNdcR_pz97-35t4raqlpJ37j2urK52XjpccfBpakvqO21k7y1V9QF1BWJ616r9xj8qq_vNN9hoMD4SYxeVh9fQSzDDPbrKRO5V_rCFqBBStGTF_LJ0fJSR/s320/Flag.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In two other blog posts from the last few days, I wrote about my decision to buy and publicly wear a <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-new-baseball-cap.html" target="_blank">baseball cap with the caption "Jack Smith Making America Great Again"</a>. I had written about the fact that I had worn it to several businesses on this past Friday, February 9, 2024, and had not had a single person speak to me about the baseball cap either to thank me for wearing it or attempt to convince me that I was an idiot and had made a terrible mistake to support the work of Jack Smith, the Special Prosecutor who will, if there is a God in Heaven, send TRAITOR Trump to the federal penitentiary for the rest of his slimy, treasonous life. I also wrote another blog post yesterday, February 10, 2024, about the absolutely dangerous and destructive <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-most-unjustifiably-ambitious-state.html" target="_blank">Right Wing Radical Repugnican majority in the Kentucky state legislature</a> and, in particular, a pending Kentucky State Senate bill (<a href="https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24rs/sb4.html" target="_blank">Senate Bill #4</a>) which is intended to stop Kentucky school teachers from using their unused sick days to add to their service time upon retirement which has been a standing benefit provided to Kentucky teachers and other state employees for many years. This is an absolutely asinine bill which will further exacerbate the state's ability to hire and retain competent teachers especially in light of the fact that their pay and benefit structure is already well below those of most other states. In that particular post about the state legislature, I had also provided a link to the <a href="https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24rs/record.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kentucky State Senate Regular Session Record</a> website from the Kentucky State Legislative Research Commision which provides complete information about every pending piece of legislation during the session. I sincerely hope that every concerned citizen of Kentucky or anyone else with a vested interest in the state will choose to visit and study that website, use it to inform and refine your beliefs and opinions about pending actions of the legislature, and then choose to speak out about, propagate, and vigorously defend those beliefs and opinions. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRATNn5J9-PAeBh6rd61dOHIJX04X3L48AVF9_-MtyJEVNAwz0ynvYvhPoaVxjuMSWB5NUYv5OyDi0w8nWPY2scwL03KUwnQKog3XbtOTjcJfrL-FskQKQRgu62FbdCP5Ys6BU_5jHQSecCi2T0A1VuCEiRTPIpC729CLh-kdD7FrRw1WJC_Y-iTLJO_8/s381/FlagKentucky.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="381" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRATNn5J9-PAeBh6rd61dOHIJX04X3L48AVF9_-MtyJEVNAwz0ynvYvhPoaVxjuMSWB5NUYv5OyDi0w8nWPY2scwL03KUwnQKog3XbtOTjcJfrL-FskQKQRgu62FbdCP5Ys6BU_5jHQSecCi2T0A1VuCEiRTPIpC729CLh-kdD7FrRw1WJC_Y-iTLJO_8/s320/FlagKentucky.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, I am betting that most of my regular readers are wondering what all this writing about Kentucky Senate Bill #4 and the Right Wing Radical Repugnican majority in the state legislature has to do with wearing a baseball cap supporting the incredible work of Jack Smith and his investigative and prosecutorial team. This is the story of that connection. Yesterday, Saturday, February 10, 2024, I went as I usually do to my local Saturday hangout where I customarily eat lunch and spend time with two friends, one of which owns the hangout and the other who is a lifelong friend of that owner and my friend from several years. It is also pertinent that the owner is a local business person with two businesses in the this county and has served almost twenty years in two separate terms on the county Board of Education. I had spent probably an hour talking with my two friends when the owner's liberal son-in-law came downstairs from where he had been working without my knowledge. This liberal son-in-law is also a friend of mine and we love to talk politics and other topics when we have the time together. I called him over to show him my baseball cap which he appreciated greatly and we had a good laugh about it. His father-in-law, the long term Board of Education member, then asked me, seriously, "Who is Jack Smith?" I told him, "the Special Prosecutor" and he never said a word further. It is now pertinent for me to say that a Facebook friend of mine who is a retired college English professor had mentioned to me earlier that the reason I had not had anyone ask me about the baseball cap was because the people who customarily support TRAITOR Trump can't read. I now have to admit that this friend was correct. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">My Board of Education member friend and I then continued our conversation in which I asked him what he thought about Kentucky Senate Bill #4 and the fact that the majority in the state legislature was attempting to take away the right of Kentucky teachers to use their unused sick days to extend their time of service upon retirement. To my surprise he said that the bill is a good idea and gave me a rambling justification that "when people retire the Boards of Education where they worked have to pay for that sick time at their current rate of pay instead of the rate of pay they were earning at the time they earned the sick time". I asked what he thought about the probability that the bill, if it becomes law, will make it more difficult to hire and retain teachers in Kentucky. He said,"Yes, it might but it's a good idea to pass that bill." I was, to say the least, surprised if not shocked to hear that from a sitting Board of Education member in a county where I personally know that at least one teacher has been hired in the last year or two who did not have an education degree and all her prior work history had been in a variety of public sales positions. Hence, she was hired under a special provision in the law which allows people with unrelated degrees and experience to be hired as teachers because of a hardship waiver if qualified teachers are not applying for the available jobs I have no idea if it is relevant that the teacher to which I am referring is related to a member of my friend's extended family. But it is very relevant that he has a great niece who is a teacher and has chosen to work in another county located about two hours from this county where most of her close relativee live. The county in which she works is one of the best counties in the state in terms of teacher pay and benefits. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvRRi8o48mdZO2xyK18PnO-VggVUYJIQbY3EjH2UAH49hkF5B400o7TOHy2ZjVn6Y7BsEiwFbj_fcttypoUsret5XC5HoXj6-Wh76JTAVIh4hQicEwvcQIwLpjwG9FexNkTIg5zsGFMyHX4yvOsQ3zsS8svxqHK8q0K7ww6F7FrT43HHoFeclWNZfb8U29/s788/JackSmith.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="679" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvRRi8o48mdZO2xyK18PnO-VggVUYJIQbY3EjH2UAH49hkF5B400o7TOHy2ZjVn6Y7BsEiwFbj_fcttypoUsret5XC5HoXj6-Wh76JTAVIh4hQicEwvcQIwLpjwG9FexNkTIg5zsGFMyHX4yvOsQ3zsS8svxqHK8q0K7ww6F7FrT43HHoFeclWNZfb8U29/s320/JackSmith.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">But the most relevant aspect of all this for me is that I know a member of the local Board of Education who had no idea who Jack Smith is until I told him and is not concerned that every teacher in this state stands to lose a great deal of accumulated sick time, and therefore time of service which will lower their retirement pay when it has been a long standing aspect of employment in education in Kentucky. And you can bet your sweet ass that if the Right Wing Radical Repugnican majority in the Kentucky State Legislature get away with taking that sick time feature of retirement away from teachers, their next move will be to take it away from every other employee of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. If Kentucky teachers don't Stand Up, Speak Up, and Speak Out strongly in their entire numbers against this legislation it will become law at a time when the current lieutenant governor is a former educator and she and the governor have fought tooth and nail for their entire time in office to try to force the legislature to give teachers a sizeable raise which would make them more equitably paid in comparison to their peers in other states. And, due to the veto proof majorities in both houses of the legislature any veto from the governor can only be a public statement of disagreement with the bill. In fact, every state employee, both current and retired needs to be fighting to defend the teachers of Kentucky in this effort to stop this asinine bill from becoming law. If every state employee stood up with the teachers and expressed their intent to vote against any legislator who votes in support of this bill, it would never pass into law. We should all be fighting to make Kentucky teachers the best paid and best compensated via other benefits in the nation. When teachers are given excellent pay and benefits in this state, better qualified and more dedicated persons will strive to become teachers and to fulfill their careers until retirement. Better teachers produce better educated citizens and those citizens produce better lifetime output than lesser educated citizens. If we want a great state, we must hire and retain great teachers and pay them what they are worth in every other state in the nation.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_eskjVPX3-3ZHJkkN3bnnA72rz7GdbvpFw-BmbrPH65N0DRhrnVD6J6EjPW6n6ParUQRB5Rv6fThSeq7aGrc1u2vP0X0_OD_kfW8zC2nvv4SaKHlxhcOqDGWyb1Ul-rukY68co05OB-x335h6hq2L-XxFQV0Ml94bJhJOCy0EsoQE_AoG3EZ1jIjumSGh/s720/Democrat4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_eskjVPX3-3ZHJkkN3bnnA72rz7GdbvpFw-BmbrPH65N0DRhrnVD6J6EjPW6n6ParUQRB5Rv6fThSeq7aGrc1u2vP0X0_OD_kfW8zC2nvv4SaKHlxhcOqDGWyb1Ul-rukY68co05OB-x335h6hq2L-XxFQV0Ml94bJhJOCy0EsoQE_AoG3EZ1jIjumSGh/s320/Democrat4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-79219918237277015772024-02-10T07:54:00.001-05:002024-02-10T07:54:28.883-05:00The Most Unjustifiably Ambitious State Legislature In America! <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPq0AGe9evEgGtODfSOF6aMDuTCCBa9sTmspq9pNfhMO48Xewt3f8jqkt06zl-E-ro0tvzeQgyOOIGigGIY5SEK1rk3r7oOEmjuIYKCuA4QKa8Rc37KfrrrkCAT47u65j8DgbB4v54RFDIQLJ3wfDo8jBM4bt44lbaCdPjEd12B7r8aZWpfYKeqPaPWJw/s381/FlagKentucky.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="381" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPq0AGe9evEgGtODfSOF6aMDuTCCBa9sTmspq9pNfhMO48Xewt3f8jqkt06zl-E-ro0tvzeQgyOOIGigGIY5SEK1rk3r7oOEmjuIYKCuA4QKa8Rc37KfrrrkCAT47u65j8DgbB4v54RFDIQLJ3wfDo8jBM4bt44lbaCdPjEd12B7r8aZWpfYKeqPaPWJw/s320/FlagKentucky.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> The Kentucky state legislature convened on January 2, 2024, to begin the 2024 regular session which will last until April 15, 2024, which will be a sine die day, or the date of adjournment. They have set aside 10 days from March 29, 2024, to April 9, 2024, as days to deal with any vetoes which Governor Andy Beshear might sign. However, sadly, very sadly, the Right Wing Radical Repugnican party has a veto proof majority in both houses and any vetoes which the governor will sign are likely to be only on bills which are so abhorrent to both the governor and common sense that he feels that it is necessary to take a public position against them. At two links below, I will post the individual links to both the <a href="https://legislature.ky.gov/Documents/RS_Calendar.pdf">legislature's schedule</a> and the link to the link to the page labeled <a href="https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24rs/record.html" target="_blank">2024 Regular Session Record</a>. That page is operated by the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission and is updated every day if necessary. It will contain every bill being considered by the legislature, every bill passed into law, and a great deal of other information. The schedule page will tell you every day the legislature is in session and, for those of you who are willing to travel to Frankfort, it will let you plan to be there on a day when you have a possible opportunity to publicly express your opinions to the legislature by either seeking to contact a legislator, leave a message face to face with a legislative employee, or engage in public protest by exercising your right to free speech. I urge all of my readers who live in Kentucky or have a vested interest in what happens in the state to spend time on both links to learn what is being considered by the legislature and to familiarize yourself with the legislative process. This is going to be a very destructive legislative session and will do a great deal to destroy individual constitutional rights in the state; destroy a multitude of programs intended to provide health care, education, free speech, environmental protections, and virtually any program intended to assist the lower echelons of society. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">At this time, it is too complicated a process to attempt to address every legislative bill in the session. But I will speak out here for the first time about a bill which I just learned about yesterday, February 9, 2024, which is intended to <a href="https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/02/07/republican-backed-change-to-teacher-pay-for-sick-days-forwarded-by-committee/" target="_blank">take away the right of Kentucky teachers to keep unused sick days</a> throughout their careers and add them to their time for retirement purposes which has been a standing perk for all full time state employees for many years. This bill is labeled as <a href="https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24rs/sb4.html" target="_blank">Senate Bill 4</a>. This bill will pass the state legislature, will go to the governor's desk, and, I suspect, will be vetoed as a public moral, ethical, and political statement by the governor who is deeply committed to education in the state but, incredibly sadly, unable to prevent this attempt to further incentivize every good educator to consider either never applying for a job in Kentucky or leaving the state early in their careers to seek better jobs in states with a genuine commitment to high quality education. I repeat, the Right Wing Radical Repugnican majority in the legislature has a veto proof majority in both houses of the legislature and all Andy Beshear, the best governor can do is speak out and take a rational public position by refusing to sign such damaging laws into the state code. We must support the governor and lieutenant governor, who is a former educator, in their effort to save public education in Kentucky. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As I have time to read, research, and understand other bills being proposed in this legislative session, I will post other blog posts to this blog, may modify this particular post, and will do my best to keep my regular readers in Kentucky informed about the most dangerous bills being proposed by the legislature as they continue their effort to become the worst state legislature in the nation. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMOqKj3Z3tq_qI525CTsPAqR7vxAvdSzj5sxXc_EZEpp9yil-0-xEyRHd7868mYMf-u8T6pcUFb9oE32HaVJZY0VAL66G_IWVpoxVqQox5rjTXjRAVYB-cuXYPrd-O3YiHcMWGVT1soMjcSUhW-yLHwvKl_xOkrX6N2JOf5qS10xFHPXToc0Nm2wrVxG10/s720/Democrat4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMOqKj3Z3tq_qI525CTsPAqR7vxAvdSzj5sxXc_EZEpp9yil-0-xEyRHd7868mYMf-u8T6pcUFb9oE32HaVJZY0VAL66G_IWVpoxVqQox5rjTXjRAVYB-cuXYPrd-O3YiHcMWGVT1soMjcSUhW-yLHwvKl_xOkrX6N2JOf5qS10xFHPXToc0Nm2wrVxG10/s320/Democrat4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-11897833414790072362024-02-09T17:38:00.000-05:002024-02-09T17:38:08.774-05:00My New Baseball Cap!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi81QqagUpMMMGgSvC3lZsioMNT4pAc2ogN23GM-K3qSPC-ec1_ocOpHt4mHB9NwlfTIEqfAF0FBxyPTw4H9JZA9vZBWgqiU_nM-2_8O8NPkS7MExsrUc4Lonu0Rvj7YnepWHN1wlT500c0xm76aHnAl5-emtIkYvtf7xXvTZ-1AFVZb_NGFmRh1c7Q-8lo/s788/JackSmith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="679" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi81QqagUpMMMGgSvC3lZsioMNT4pAc2ogN23GM-K3qSPC-ec1_ocOpHt4mHB9NwlfTIEqfAF0FBxyPTw4H9JZA9vZBWgqiU_nM-2_8O8NPkS7MExsrUc4Lonu0Rvj7YnepWHN1wlT500c0xm76aHnAl5-emtIkYvtf7xXvTZ-1AFVZb_NGFmRh1c7Q-8lo/s320/JackSmith.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today's blog post will be short and sweet. I wore my new baseball cap to town today, actually two towns, West Liberty and Morehead in Kentucky. I wore it in our local pharmacy, our local chain gas station, and through the drive through at Dairy Queen. Then I traveled to Morehead and wore it as I walked at the local cemetery where I met two other men walking, to the local Wal Mart, and through the drive through at McDonald's. I even went to the sporting goods counter at Wal Mart and bought two boxes of .22 long rifle ammunition. I engaged several people in brief conversations and no one said a word about my new baseball cap which took me somewhat by surprise. I had thought that surely someone at the sporting goods counter might decide to express their mistaken opinion about it. I was actually disappointed to tell you the truth. I love to confront ignorance and I never even got the opportunity. Maybe next time because I will be wearing it whenever I go in public at least until November 5, 2024. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyJIkYbQjAIa3N7bMgfDFvm9_DsHFhLezWke4AqF82iXUhknNKH8ONfSGGmYdKKxohouQoP3wW11KhRhF7-q5o4QWeLr2MzB5XLvcQvBQmQVAbg9I5m8wO8yLl42eZjRUf1sPkkaaY9cFpJGBgBQAdJqOabLY1PPMvrCI92iOE9Nr_uw6XlCIVFHqhGYwb/s843/Biden2024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="843" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyJIkYbQjAIa3N7bMgfDFvm9_DsHFhLezWke4AqF82iXUhknNKH8ONfSGGmYdKKxohouQoP3wW11KhRhF7-q5o4QWeLr2MzB5XLvcQvBQmQVAbg9I5m8wO8yLl42eZjRUf1sPkkaaY9cFpJGBgBQAdJqOabLY1PPMvrCI92iOE9Nr_uw6XlCIVFHqhGYwb/s320/Biden2024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-51171436524586136912024-02-08T15:30:00.006-05:002024-02-08T15:31:57.850-05:00Muskrat For Supper, Ring The Dinner Bell!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWy8yq42wPJtM7FkLZGt8rg-XVBQvqeXEWrgPg0cEoZ_rqrLKvdbWNreFKAUYbHBni82VWxa3lnSQxJwO1n5CdBHNu-GW5nVFlth_XpmBx89O5A7eTL3dO3zsOjf9uICB3KjeEFVW-kCFIZGjFXCa9lvw1tB3W32-xCHM_nAe8tf4ECzvcTFgKerqEgJW/s612/muskrat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWy8yq42wPJtM7FkLZGt8rg-XVBQvqeXEWrgPg0cEoZ_rqrLKvdbWNreFKAUYbHBni82VWxa3lnSQxJwO1n5CdBHNu-GW5nVFlth_XpmBx89O5A7eTL3dO3zsOjf9uICB3KjeEFVW-kCFIZGjFXCa9lvw1tB3W32-xCHM_nAe8tf4ECzvcTFgKerqEgJW/s320/muskrat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I was growing up in Appalachian Kentucky, my family ate nearly everything available with only two exceptions, muskrat and opossum. We were always told that both were "nasty" and we shouldn't eat them. Since then I have eaten both although it has been a long time since I ate either. The firs time I ate muskrat was about 28 years old and working as the broodmare and yearling foreman on a Thoroughbred farm in Lexington, Kentucky, known as The Stallion Station. Our maintenance foreman was an African American man named Harvey "Bull" Jackson. I will always remember Bull for a variety of reasons but one of the fondest memories I have of him involves the first time I ever ate muskrat. Bull and I had to come in every Sunday morning with one man each to help us and do the bare minimum work on the farm. My helper and I had to check on all the horses, do the feeding and turn out or put up whichever horses needed to be moved, and do any treatments for sick horses. Bull and his helper had to check fences, water lines, etc. and do any necessary repairs. We got in the habit of meeting for breakfast in the tack room at the foaling barn which had a good table, a hot plate, a sink, and hot and cold running water. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__iQlO3xw7mkZPka6mDVvCWqHR6mFEms97dM9Kgs-NNit-70QzepYLwJjzCHkvFcj7J03YQWBJZFjunj1yFu6a_mxEB4LDouhCBSudcfXeVrYa3b-bFadUGgK5ycJOWU-yVNcMvrrcTtpASuIoBPUuozstvKBQaRBW2NrKJeYfrmXpDMDjzp9pOmIgNUX/s328/istock_000003441948_large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="328" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__iQlO3xw7mkZPka6mDVvCWqHR6mFEms97dM9Kgs-NNit-70QzepYLwJjzCHkvFcj7J03YQWBJZFjunj1yFu6a_mxEB4LDouhCBSudcfXeVrYa3b-bFadUGgK5ycJOWU-yVNcMvrrcTtpASuIoBPUuozstvKBQaRBW2NrKJeYfrmXpDMDjzp9pOmIgNUX/s320/istock_000003441948_large.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">One Sunday morning Bull came in with a big platter of meat all cooked up and set it down on the table and said "I brought breakfast. Sit down and eat." When I looked at the meat, I knew it was some kind of wild meat and thought it was probably <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2024/02/ground-hog-day-yum-yum.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">groundhog</a> which I love. I've written about eating and cooking <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/search?q=groundhog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">groundhog</a> in more than one place on this blog. I grabbed a leg, took a bite, liked it a lot but could tell that it wasn't groundhog. "What is this, Bull," I asked. He responeded, "Ruth cooked that. Eat that. It's good." I finished the first leg, grabbed another and asked again, "What is this, Bull?" I got the same answer, "Ruth cooked that. That's good. Eat that." I knew Bull's wife Ruth and knew she was an excellent cook so I kept eating. Finally, when he saw that I was enjoying the meat, he told me, "That's muskrat. I went out last night to the ponds and shot some muskrats. Ruth cooked them up for supper and we had that left over. You like that don't you?" I told him that I did like it and we finished the pan of meat. I've been a muskrat lover ever since but I have not had the opportunity to eat a lot of it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In my recent blog post about eating groundhog, linked above, I made reference to a cookbook I have called "The L. L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook" which had a couple of groundhog recipes which I mentioned in that blog piece. It also has recipes for muskrat along with several other species of animals which most people don't eat but which I have found to be very good grub as we say in the mountains of Appalachia. In their introduction to the section on muskrat the authors of the cookbook say: <i>"In New Orleans and other eastern cities whose restaurants serve muskrat in season, this delicious meat is often listed as "marsh rabbit" to avoid the stigma attached to the word "rat". It is a pity that the name puts off some people, for the tender, fine grained meat is excellent fare." </i>The authors of that cookbook are absolutely correct. I have only been to New Orleans on two occasions and have never seen it on a menu where I have eaten. I would love to try it in a commercial kitchen there someday. I also know that in the Detroit, Michigan, area <a href="https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/the-history-of-detroit-catholics-muskrat-eating-tradition-and-yes-its-still-a-thing" target="_blank">muskrat is commonly eaten</a> and is generally thought to have been rooted in Catholic culture. History says that in that area <i>"tradition has it, it was during these early years of the 19th century
that the humble pastor of Ste. Anne Parish in Detroit, Fr. Gabriel
Richard, lobbied for a special dispensation to the region’s residents to
consume muskrat throughout the Lenten season."</i> I have also heard it told that in the Detroit area muskrat is commonly served smothered in sauerkraut or with sauerkraut as a side dish. I've never been in Detroit in my adult years although I have spent several weeks in Michigan over the years in other parts of the state and have never seen muskrat on a menu in the state. I would love to attend the Lenten dinner described in the article linked above. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">My L. L. Bean cookbook has four recipes for muskrat. The first describes oven roasting muskrat in much the same way Ruth Jackson cooked hers and similar to the way my family has often cooked both groundhog and raccoon. Their second recipe is for "Marsh Rabbit" New Orleans Style. They claim this recipe can be used equally well for rabbit, squirrel, groundhog, and beaver. That recipe mentions "deglanding" the muskrats prior to preparation and I would agree with that idea. Muskrats are so named because they have musk glands near their rectums and exude musk for purposes of defense, marking territory, and attracting mates and the musk can be quite strong in adult males. Skinning of muskrats, beavers, or any other mustelids should be done with careful attention to removing those musk glands without damaging them and infusing the meat with the musk. This second recipe contains several vegetables including carrots, onions, and green peppers. It also include a quarter pound of diced ham. This recipe is also heavily spiced with a combination of red pepper seeds, cayenne, bay leaves, thyme, marjoram, parsley, salt, and pepper. It is intended to be simmered for 1 1/2 hours in a Dutch Oven or heavy casserole dish. Between the many vegetables and the diverse collection of spices, it appears to me that muskrat should become so well disguised that it's distinctive natural taste could well be lost. The third L. L. Bean recipe is much simpler and called Braised Muskrat. The only additives are onions, thyme, 1/2 pound of salt pork, and a touch of salt and pepper. It seems that this recipe would be much more natural in flavor and true to the real muskrat. The last L. L. Bean recipe is called Basic Sweet-Sour Recipe For Braised Muskrat Or Other Furred Game. It is reputed to good for several other animals including beaver, squirrel, groundhog, and raccoon. I have a bit of an issue with any recipe for any product which makes any claim leaning toward its being universally applicable to anything that creeps, crawls, or flies too low over the supper table. It also includes onions, green pepper, and lard for flavoring. The spices are salt, pepper, theyme, 1/4 cup sugar, dry mustard, and vinegar. Once again, this recipe seems to be attempting to mask the natural flavor of the muskrat. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are also numerous recipes available on the internet for muskrat ranging from braised and baked to stewed and fried. If you love wild meat, muskrat should never be avoided. It is good, pretty, red meat with a nice color and taste. You can find a recipe which appeals to your individual taste and try it. It is well worth eating. Just ask any devout Catholic in Detroit. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOw-LTibLr6BLiqQQ9NhJmEh2Y7O5h_MqP4Wz1NIum1D9fvDAbJWJ61IAyUdaqS9ELbxuUObj33WO5ZEZuI4K3MtmqKKmtXijpKkQV1XeAOJLC2mJgxaA-v5UfkPTggZaG_XZ1mgar_CaVfdPpPr9msMpErhRyF0Njw45oMmK3ZK8FKnk0luSt2ppvPM5G/s1028/muskrat2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1028" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOw-LTibLr6BLiqQQ9NhJmEh2Y7O5h_MqP4Wz1NIum1D9fvDAbJWJ61IAyUdaqS9ELbxuUObj33WO5ZEZuI4K3MtmqKKmtXijpKkQV1XeAOJLC2mJgxaA-v5UfkPTggZaG_XZ1mgar_CaVfdPpPr9msMpErhRyF0Njw45oMmK3ZK8FKnk0luSt2ppvPM5G/s320/muskrat2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-47158403999842702412024-02-07T17:12:00.007-05:002024-02-07T17:12:58.000-05:00Half A Million Page Views In The Life Of This Blog!<p>Sometime overnight this blog reached 500,000 page views for the life of the blog. It has consistently averaged about 3,000 page views a month over the last several years but on several occasions it has had as many as 10,000 to 19,000 page views in a month. On one occasion, in March 2015, it came up just short of 21,000 page views for the month. And, all the page views and follower numbers are due to the fact that the blog has slowly accumulated a gradually growing number of followers now at about 215. Without readers, there would no reason to write a blog, or to put it another way "if a tree falls in the wilderness and nobody hears it does it make a sound". The answer to that one is no in my opinion. Once in a while I write a post about some person in the history of Appalachia and suddenly receive a comment from a family member, friend, or former student of that person who says "Thank You!" That makes it all worthwhile! You might have also noticed that I have never allowed advertisements on this blog. It has never been about an attempt to make money. For me, it has always been about spreading information and ideas to as many people as possible. My original intent was to keep this blog absolutely restricted to topics about Central and Southern Appalachia. In May of 2016, I found it necessary to write about <a href="https://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2016/05/matt-bevins-war-against-appalachian.html" target="_blank">Matt Bevin's War Against Appalachian People</a> and I have never regretted having taken that step. Matt Bevin proved on a daily basis that he was totally unfit to hold any position of public trust at any level. In October of 2016, I finally wrote my first blog post about the TRAITOR Trump. I deeply regret that I did not write a first post about TRAITOR Trump much sooner. As our country has steadily sunk deeper and deeper into the moral and ethical desert which has been created by TRAITOR Trump and those who support him, I have wept as the majority of the greatest nation on earth have done. I will continue to write speak out against, and do everything in meager power to try to influence every American I can to work to help us hold this TRAITOR, multiple rapist, career criminal, tax cheat, racist, and idiot responsible for at least part of his thousands of crimes against America, American Democracy, the human race, and the planet in its entirety. If that upsets you, you are part of the problem. And, in closing, I would like to thank all of you who read this blog, learn from at times, and agree with the values which it works to uphold. THANK YOU ALL! </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4QhLoYuIVivf7DquXwm9oQStMr6FUMrbf0R1ZNin3FpOZIE5Om2EhkBXIRTQZMFbbes95crRlfI7hPdF7dFTKp-YiSPJjvMqxH6mLKfbuvJSuMsLruJF05PY8xC4QosKDUit4CoJ8mHCzQ7ZvNvUXWKox5l42pGYuAHzsY78XYZj5wIySHLCNFvQlCIH/s1536/RDHJones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1536" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4QhLoYuIVivf7DquXwm9oQStMr6FUMrbf0R1ZNin3FpOZIE5Om2EhkBXIRTQZMFbbes95crRlfI7hPdF7dFTKp-YiSPJjvMqxH6mLKfbuvJSuMsLruJF05PY8xC4QosKDUit4CoJ8mHCzQ7ZvNvUXWKox5l42pGYuAHzsY78XYZj5wIySHLCNFvQlCIH/s320/RDHJones.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-92018584780992643882024-02-06T15:18:00.000-05:002024-02-06T15:18:54.351-05:00Country Music Association Nominees For Entertainer Of The Year 1967<p style="text-align: justify;">This morning I awoke thinking about what music I might listen to today and the thought entered my head that it would be interesting to listen to the music of several people who had been nominated for Entertainer Of The Year by the Country Music Association or CMA. Since I like classic country much better than the great majority of what is being billed and sold as country music today, I went to the first year of the CMA Awards, 1967, to start looking at who had been nominated but didn't win that year. The list was an incredible group of five of the greatest male country singers of all time, Eddy Arnold, Merle Haggard, Bill Anderson, Sonny James and Buck Owens. When I read the list, I was thinking that this group of five must have all won several CMA Awards in their careers despite not winning that year's Entertainer Of The Year Award. I was wrong! One of those five never won a CMA Award. Yet, all five are in the Country Music Hall Of Fame in Nashville. I am sure most of you will struggle to guess which one never won a CMA Award. I know I did. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3emm2UM6gvFXHfnkK-qKz2Zisd1pDcUvFomjVOaL3OA3NV7V3Cf7DZfaeh0Xv66pDUeT8NRCD2vA7K89IQNwqBgB2D5ItWMumh5hgebaKjszl1R22R41awplfCq_ZhmW2c6pyKex_z93KRwA31TAMisDBCufswsbYj9_aapc1ib61_AsN8cwmqhcB8DXm/s536/EddyArnold.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3emm2UM6gvFXHfnkK-qKz2Zisd1pDcUvFomjVOaL3OA3NV7V3Cf7DZfaeh0Xv66pDUeT8NRCD2vA7K89IQNwqBgB2D5ItWMumh5hgebaKjszl1R22R41awplfCq_ZhmW2c6pyKex_z93KRwA31TAMisDBCufswsbYj9_aapc1ib61_AsN8cwmqhcB8DXm/s320/EddyArnold.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I did not say at the beginning of this blog post who won the CMA Entertainer Of The Year Award in 1967. The winner was Eddy Arnold. He had actually been nominated for three CMA Awards that year, Entertainer Of The Year, Album Of The Year, and Male Vocalist Of The Year. He only won the Entertainer Of The Year Award and was never nominated again after that year. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhenL031DapdA1v4BX_FJjLK8kS3onJ0DPBOa6JE3RKK2z8MmrDd3-xJ8YzTiW59-TZ40zhoMFhO_xYlpF2-OW-FiLUTKb4e0Cq-U1O_Jz9-KemVSIZzIRp0lothnPhC4aSENBo5gPJ7L0HJuL_2XDZt5cS1UrT72XwcVGgYgKUsBKBbzLnKPAMcrb3auA1/s536/MerleHaggard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhenL031DapdA1v4BX_FJjLK8kS3onJ0DPBOa6JE3RKK2z8MmrDd3-xJ8YzTiW59-TZ40zhoMFhO_xYlpF2-OW-FiLUTKb4e0Cq-U1O_Jz9-KemVSIZzIRp0lothnPhC4aSENBo5gPJ7L0HJuL_2XDZt5cS1UrT72XwcVGgYgKUsBKBbzLnKPAMcrb3auA1/s320/MerleHaggard.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Merle Haggard didn't win the Entertainer Of The Year Award in 1967 and, in fact, did not win a CMA Award until three years later in 1970 when he was nominated for an amazing 9 awards and actually won four. In an even more amazing statistic, Merle was nominated for 46 CMA Awards from 1967 until 2015. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaydxdDvFDqn0Vng2DEoB50UQd5bWqo_QNyPCZa5Nwe7KhtfFc-4eHpoD0iyHeT7N9qJo7tuekySYF0k6PA_plab2Jlsh3Il-1PA5XBzPJ8w2lY1L1vpS1nD_gujGbal31pB_URG5LpW9PB9IV3kFh-C_g1d7r_OXCbnGhyx9JXXugewUby9Wqq6GaQhnA/s536/BillAnderson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaydxdDvFDqn0Vng2DEoB50UQd5bWqo_QNyPCZa5Nwe7KhtfFc-4eHpoD0iyHeT7N9qJo7tuekySYF0k6PA_plab2Jlsh3Il-1PA5XBzPJ8w2lY1L1vpS1nD_gujGbal31pB_URG5LpW9PB9IV3kFh-C_g1d7r_OXCbnGhyx9JXXugewUby9Wqq6GaQhnA/s320/BillAnderson.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Despite his amazing career as both a performer and a songwriter, Bill Anderson has been nominated for only 9 CMA Awards including that 1967 nomination for Entertainer Of The Year. He did not win a CMA Award until 2001, 34 years after being nominated the first time and having written at least 7 number one country songs both for himself and other performers. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZS7VhnKdct8KuTmonCxnDJNTKHr4VvWsS7Y6pVK9DGNtNSPYhawpH9MW41elyUQ7NkrfdnL7BcQpeU7vICyFjbQkQWb08jM7msaWB6ipVHO_mR2yr0jok0fjAjpfDTp_N7EV4pZRZSchmaln-9xIF13Rh2OKONZCGFiFRUQohLF8BfBz2BrIz9myCmjq/s536/BuckOwens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZS7VhnKdct8KuTmonCxnDJNTKHr4VvWsS7Y6pVK9DGNtNSPYhawpH9MW41elyUQ7NkrfdnL7BcQpeU7vICyFjbQkQWb08jM7msaWB6ipVHO_mR2yr0jok0fjAjpfDTp_N7EV4pZRZSchmaln-9xIF13Rh2OKONZCGFiFRUQohLF8BfBz2BrIz9myCmjq/s320/BuckOwens.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Buck Owens has been nominated for 6 CMA Awards including that 1967 Entertainer Of The Year Award and did not win an award until 2001 when he shared the win with Brad Paisley, George Jones, and Bill Anderson, for the project called "Too Country". Buck Owens has never won a CMA Award on his own. Yet he had 10 Number 1 Country Albums in his career along with an astounding 20 Number 1 Singles. He also went 34 years after his first nomination before he ever won that joint Vocal Event Of The Year Award with Bill Anderson and company. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnRbmzk2rZOguKI5wYMwo9VrQjcbl5TJU-_DU0thj_lj6CPz33832U69XxRQ8t2DetjJ81OogvadG9_aIk94l90ALJVQxaMxxQKLwmAGSjvTJLer2048RynY_Cwry95wkMKfX7VOdfGef4FJhEeJ0J2ddd8dBQhpNqLUxHolKLGl69rA4kwAwPpQ5CN89/s536/SonnyJames.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnRbmzk2rZOguKI5wYMwo9VrQjcbl5TJU-_DU0thj_lj6CPz33832U69XxRQ8t2DetjJ81OogvadG9_aIk94l90ALJVQxaMxxQKLwmAGSjvTJLer2048RynY_Cwry95wkMKfX7VOdfGef4FJhEeJ0J2ddd8dBQhpNqLUxHolKLGl69rA4kwAwPpQ5CN89/s320/SonnyJames.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">By now you have probably guessed that Sonny James was the one singer from that amazing fivesome who were nominated in 1967 who never won a CMA Award of any kind. In a 9 year period from 1967 to 1976, Sonny James was nominated for 5 CMA Awards and never won a single one. And during his prolific career, Sonny James had 2 Number 1 Country Albums and an amazing 23 Number 1 Country Singles. It is hard to believe that with that kind of career he never won a CMA Award. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I firmly believe those 5 men might well be the best group of nominees ever for any CMA Award. They all had stellar careers, all are in the Country Music Hall Of Fame, and all are world famous as singers and musicians. All 5 are among the best singers in the history of Country Music. <br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-40811512298825001032024-02-05T15:10:00.008-05:002024-02-06T16:25:31.253-05:00Reflections On Reading "The River of Doubt" by Candice Millard<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPdjpCvdSgnYY6JMk1keZGQ30qtqqpuI7A-1Bmtt5bVFtOuDkcYj-imbUMRqpoYkibd0lJI6dF5AZ6sZNqetoz5FfkjOvbjP-6KnU_nz_XQGCMEGsZ3dUmiUtcBXF1i49jcXDOmnP8xSXELXmFncCBGeorYBIkDCyzLUKcbMA1dsSmqN7WOpUZQWJmZvDU/s488/River.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="488" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPdjpCvdSgnYY6JMk1keZGQ30qtqqpuI7A-1Bmtt5bVFtOuDkcYj-imbUMRqpoYkibd0lJI6dF5AZ6sZNqetoz5FfkjOvbjP-6KnU_nz_XQGCMEGsZ3dUmiUtcBXF1i49jcXDOmnP8xSXELXmFncCBGeorYBIkDCyzLUKcbMA1dsSmqN7WOpUZQWJmZvDU/s320/River.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fairly frequently, I go to Goodwill Stores, Salvation Army Surplus Stores, and other less well known discount stores specifically to buy used books. I have on one or two occasions found rare books of considerable value and on many occasions I have found books which I have read and loved for 50 cents or a dollar. A few weeks ago I hit the reading jackpot in Paintsville, Kentucky, at the Goodwill Store there when I found "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" by Candice Millard. My wife Candice and I had recently read David Grann's book "The Lost City of Z" about the Amazon explorations and disappearance of British explorer Percy Fawcett, which had made fleeting references to former President Theodore Roosevelt's expedition into the Amazon with Brazilian explorer and Army officer Candido Rondon during which they had traveled the length of the River of Doubt and been the first explorers to do so. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I had no idea who Candice Millard was but picked the book up at the Goodwill Store as soon as I saw the title. Millard is a former National Geographic writer and was an excellent person to choose to write about Roosevelt's trip since she has traveled the remote parts of the world on many assignments. It is a rare kind of book, one that won't let you put it down, that keeps you rooting for the protagonists, and is backed by impeccable and immense research. The book is based largely on the journals of four of the men on the expedition: former President Theodore Roosevelt who had traveled to remote parts of the world previously for both military assignments and hunting trips; Colonel Candido Rondon, the original discoverer of The River of Doubt and a world famous explorer in his own right who had been the director of the Brazilian attempts to run telegraph lines into the remote Amazon; the American naturalist George Cherrie who had progressed from being a child laborer in a sawmill at age 12 to becoming one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived having had 6 species of animals and birds named for him; and Millard also depended heavily on the journals of President Roosevelt's son Kermit who had been building roads and bridges in the remote portions of Brazil prior to the expedition. Millard artfully weaves her own meticulous research work and excerpts from the first person journals of the men on the expedition into a wonderful book about one of the most interesting and riveting stories and one of the world's most dangerous and difficult trips ever taken in the early twentieth century. The photo below is of T. Roosevelt in the American west. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBcmt2veiT6iJpSj4QiE3rJ8dxRXI8_P1ArB63L6JfjxSo3Cr0JIKBoYIiPUt51NH5ORApQNEkgmmumWZEVEwWVk2EKikHDRutRIeE3YdS_v0dQs6110hrKR1DedycIx1_PFaMfhxJXtgLY84l7SQxBD1FgVVNVe6736k3IaFqRZyGjYjiag4zajHXxsZ/s2405/TRoosevelt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2405" data-original-width="1656" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBcmt2veiT6iJpSj4QiE3rJ8dxRXI8_P1ArB63L6JfjxSo3Cr0JIKBoYIiPUt51NH5ORApQNEkgmmumWZEVEwWVk2EKikHDRutRIeE3YdS_v0dQs6110hrKR1DedycIx1_PFaMfhxJXtgLY84l7SQxBD1FgVVNVe6736k3IaFqRZyGjYjiag4zajHXxsZ/s320/TRoosevelt.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">During the roughly 3 month trip, Theodore Roosevelt nearly died due to his past history of having been shot in an assassination attempt combined with other health problems, the incredible physical challenges of the trip, and the myriad insect borne diseases of the Amazon jungle. By the time the trip ended, Roosevelt was literally near death and had lost over 20% of his body weight. He had been a man all his life who actively sought out physical challenges of an extreme nature while also being an intellectual. Roosevelt was equally matched in those attributes by Rondon and Cherrie. Kermit Roosevelt had been raised by his father to accept and master similar challenges virtually from the cradle and was nearly a match for the other men in those capacities. Rondon also had a native Brazilian right hand man who was similar in physical qualities with a lifetime of experience in Amazon survival. They also had a sizeable contingent of laborers from among the more civilized Amazon tribes who with one exception worked tirelessly to carry the heavy labors of the trip and support the success of the expedition. The one exception was a native Brazilian who was both lazy and dangerous and eventually murdered Rondon's top assistant. The men were able to make brief contact once with that man after he disappeared into the jungle following the murder. They responded by abandoning him in the jungle and he is believed to have either starved to death, been murdered by local tribes of Stone Age natives, or possibly been killed by the native wildlife. The photo below is of T. Roosevelt & C. Rondon. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsBhxJE8tMN390Unaez2KefpJICblK7E0I3wD0dyCBNyCAWoEqBlc_izs-6liBpW7aiW3PaNQfFEIJzqhNqq5T1a8qNvZ-8la3BnLgVtBvEWCUS0PbY3bxvs9vyhH8PhMm4mjRSbocaBwq3_sxP7x35PMDfgj_7nFofBcnRwJaWde0jZusOrs08Up4zZN/s1600/Rondon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1086" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsBhxJE8tMN390Unaez2KefpJICblK7E0I3wD0dyCBNyCAWoEqBlc_izs-6liBpW7aiW3PaNQfFEIJzqhNqq5T1a8qNvZ-8la3BnLgVtBvEWCUS0PbY3bxvs9vyhH8PhMm4mjRSbocaBwq3_sxP7x35PMDfgj_7nFofBcnRwJaWde0jZusOrs08Up4zZN/s320/Rondon.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This book is an amazing story of survival, a portrait of a former American president who was actually capable of taking on the challenges of a world into which almost none of the other presidents in this or any other country would have dared to go, and a story of tremendous achievement by a team of roughly 20 men who could not have been handpicked better to have accomplished the nearly impossible. If you love real history about success against great odds this is the book you should read. The photo below if of George Cherrie. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcJP72oHRkCalyN377LyQ3sNAmnEZQGZF4lbzrr-F54kj5LD8nsPhxHWoPS-CqasPk1Ztc3DCzhtWdXcAN4plg0HuJ3oEL3Lf8dZrmsmT-r-XHUg9CuWnMmOHQc3WtsBKqngydzh-Oxe9SLkxZhX6Ge1JSth8ybPc_KQ3v9qJa2tvFIJLv-wT-BeHOTNdF/s889/Cherrie.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcJP72oHRkCalyN377LyQ3sNAmnEZQGZF4lbzrr-F54kj5LD8nsPhxHWoPS-CqasPk1Ztc3DCzhtWdXcAN4plg0HuJ3oEL3Lf8dZrmsmT-r-XHUg9CuWnMmOHQc3WtsBKqngydzh-Oxe9SLkxZhX6Ge1JSth8ybPc_KQ3v9qJa2tvFIJLv-wT-BeHOTNdF/s320/Cherrie.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-65802411324693475462024-02-04T20:25:00.009-05:002024-02-04T23:08:20.707-05:00Southern Legitimacy Statement<p style="text-align: justify;">Once upon a time about 13 years ago, I was applying for something or other, probably a position (unpaid of course) writing a piece now and then for some minor website or magazine which deemed itself to the be the epitome of how to write about life in the American South. For some unknown reason, I actually did the assignment with a bit of a sarcastic tone and submitted it never to hear from the place again...which was probably just as well. 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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Roger Hicks’ Southern Legitimacy Statement <br /></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Having spent most of my life
in Southern Appalachia I tend to think of
myself as an Appalachian first and a southerner second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I have also spent most of my life on
the appropriate side of the Mason-Dixon Line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobody who lives north of the Tennessee border ever
seems to know how to make sweet tea. Nobody who hasn’t lived in West Virginia (or perhaps Missouri) ever
understands the Missouri Compromise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have spent days, weeks, months, years in places like Pipestem, West Virginia;
Yee Haw Junction, Florida;
Sand Mountain, Alabama; Marshall, North Carolina;
and West Liberty, Kentucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was born in Lackey, Kentucky,
and my parents carried me home from the hospital through the front door of a
small country store they owned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The door
on the other side of the room went into our living room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent years hearing old men sit around the
gas stove telling stories about life in Eastern Kentucky
before “we went across the waters and fit the Germans”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to a two room school in Knott County
Kentucky and started selling Rose Bud Salve, Grit Newspapers, Cloverine Salve,
and garden seeds door to door when I was about ten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grew up knowing how to find, catch, kill,
skin, dress, and cook fish, frogs, chickens, hogs, squirrels, rabbits, ground
hogs and any other thing that flew too low over the dinner table. I not only
know what a Hoover Box is; I know how to make one and where to set it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I also know why it was necessary and appropriate to name that device a Hoover Box. </span>I also know how to raise, pick, can, freeze,
and cook things as diverse as shuck beans, plantain, poke, tangle gut, pickled
corn, and cushaw. I developed lifetime resistance to starvation through
development of survival skills. I reckon that probably qualifies don’t it? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">And, I will conclude by saying, I reckon that is just about what I should have said under the circumstances. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90pmXEVyWqz6c0wm4HR7SyPkJuNPxvlnFqDRrDZQdiPJ1MIRlsMbTBLFkvqAWHG0opCqu7VPy5DATkOJ7bt7e-UjAFnVfQsPBbnXi2St00iD355oIwrINToM04YMP_MKposadwtidYkGE1poVBoUio3njTIsKpl4lgKDY0COAdHfVgQZxO802vjnMnjXR/s1440/PettEKY.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="1440" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90pmXEVyWqz6c0wm4HR7SyPkJuNPxvlnFqDRrDZQdiPJ1MIRlsMbTBLFkvqAWHG0opCqu7VPy5DATkOJ7bt7e-UjAFnVfQsPBbnXi2St00iD355oIwrINToM04YMP_MKposadwtidYkGE1poVBoUio3njTIsKpl4lgKDY0COAdHfVgQZxO802vjnMnjXR/s320/PettEKY.jpg" width="320" />g</a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-68914884576719611702024-02-03T07:12:00.002-05:002024-02-03T07:12:12.707-05:00Elder Raymond Howard, Old Regular Baptist Preacher, 1911-1963<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Qr6QrnWHpjgZRllT4XtS6VRjgu5NY5UOqftTb6VemL_czFccaKkpnxULq9bMxqzYM5wkkhajq5AS4izIt4J_Eyxfcos7_mLwoPttexVQrB2O6uDXf_OagSZIgKdrNwKycdeuxi7h0_ZwoXmzUjwn2IaH4iYoHcvzI_6zts_ROXK_2XKu5kTWtSJgWtaj/s837/RaymondHoward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="837" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Qr6QrnWHpjgZRllT4XtS6VRjgu5NY5UOqftTb6VemL_czFccaKkpnxULq9bMxqzYM5wkkhajq5AS4izIt4J_Eyxfcos7_mLwoPttexVQrB2O6uDXf_OagSZIgKdrNwKycdeuxi7h0_ZwoXmzUjwn2IaH4iYoHcvzI_6zts_ROXK_2XKu5kTWtSJgWtaj/s320/RaymondHoward.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have written in several other blog posts about a few Old Regular Baptist preachers, mostly from the New Salem Association which is centered in Knott, Floyd, Perry, and Letcher counties in Kentucky. Previous posts have been about <a href="https://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2019/08/clabe-mosley-old-regular-baptist.html" target="_blank">Clabe Mosley,</a> perhaps the most well known preacher in the history of the New Salem Association, and <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2019/08/e-hawk-moore-old-regular-baptist.html" target="_blank">E. Hawk Moore</a> who was a close friend of my father <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2019/09/favorite-stories-from-my-father-ballard.html" target="_blank">Ballard Hicks</a> in the Wayland area of Floyd County and was also a lifelong member of the UMWA and worked regularly as the Burial Committeeman in UMWA Local 5895 in Wayland. This post will be about Elder Raymond Howard whose name I have known all my life but whom I did not know as well in my childhood as I did some other preachers within the New Salem Association. This blog post will be based largely on the obituary of Raymond Howard from the 1963 edition of "The Minutes of The New Salem Association of Old Regular Baptists" which I have been fortunate enough to borrow a copy from someone I know. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iCf0GQX0xxg4D5VsDCS5vsdrdNDbPVFoLies4rX5I7ZKNWdtf7ZaDepbkm84lDQjehRFAAxx3bvhPi98wJPIjt0xLRk_nnkTOCUeqOYmk_P78NxiOKWjaRHMMjS7j5VETyfLdc7Vv_ruE4pF0W-AUV5ewbJ14mvFZip_cbA0c3nSqCi5r9wGj3ZeqWoB/s800/RaymondHowardTombstone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="800" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iCf0GQX0xxg4D5VsDCS5vsdrdNDbPVFoLies4rX5I7ZKNWdtf7ZaDepbkm84lDQjehRFAAxx3bvhPi98wJPIjt0xLRk_nnkTOCUeqOYmk_P78NxiOKWjaRHMMjS7j5VETyfLdc7Vv_ruE4pF0W-AUV5ewbJ14mvFZip_cbA0c3nSqCi5r9wGj3ZeqWoB/s320/RaymondHowardTombstone.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Howard was born October 14, 1911, and died July 20, 1963. His obituary was written by Elder Burton Howard and Brother Dillard Howard. They list his children as Angus Neal Howard and Reva Howard Francis. His wife's name was Mattie Slone Howard. They state in the obituary that <i>"Brother Raymond was loved by practically all men who knew him"</i> and, as I recall, that is factual. I do remember that he was well respected among the Old Regular Baptists in Eastern Kentucky and in the greater community as well. They also state that he served as the Assistant Moderator of the Ball Branch Church at Mousie, Kentucky. He apparently lived in the Mousie area and <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131193012/raymond-howard" target="_blank">is buried there in the Howard Cemetery </a>along with his wife Mattie. Presumably, the James Dillard Howard who is buried in the same cemetery is the person who co-authored the obituary. It also appears likely that Dillard Howard was his brother due to a sentence in the obituary which states <i>"but I feel that Mother will have someone now to sleep with her in the old cemetery." </i>The obituary further describes him as<i> "a wonderful singer, preacher, and he wonderful in prayer." </i>His memorial on Find A Grave also lists the inscription on his tombstone as being <i>"A minister of the Regular Baptist Church." </i>The obituary does not state the number of years he was a member or minister of the church as those obituaries frequently do. <br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-33962850835378350082024-02-02T14:10:00.014-05:002024-02-02T14:45:33.463-05:00Nikki Sixx, The Best Tom Cat I Ever Knew<p style="text-align: justify;">On November 30, 2023, I took one of the most painful actions I have had to take in years. Our wonderful tom cat Nikki Sixx, otherwise known as Bubby, had progressed into the final stage of kidney failure after 13 years, all of which except the first 6 months or so of his life, he had spent in our house. One summer day in 2010, he had wandered into our yard about half grown and nearly starved to death. He might not have weighed 2 pounds that day and in his adult prime he reached 16 pounds. As I have always said about him, you could have held him up to a light and candled him like an egg. At the time <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2015/09/giggles-december-8-2000-september-12.html" target="_blank">our awesome dachshund Giggles</a> was in her prime and immediately began to bark at him, harass him, and try to drive him away. I was amazed when I saw him just walk up to her, purr loudly, and rub against her. He was completely unfazed by her. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_PgEu6sg-cs6dHg9I615NMBcRevBGGbPpcLV4u2yBrmnBo1u8p6IJk2mD2pA6NL2WiqhDPMa1TvnWw4rUjzx_HMaAvR5V1yDuwh-OFRiZB9YjMUtsSb09IPMYdmamUpzfXB2dk_TOyaP2oZekvxPvKqrHj7QZwwJVA_mg26Wx3QLgHG_P7Wk9BD2MgvkH/s1962/NikkySink.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1234" data-original-width="1962" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_PgEu6sg-cs6dHg9I615NMBcRevBGGbPpcLV4u2yBrmnBo1u8p6IJk2mD2pA6NL2WiqhDPMa1TvnWw4rUjzx_HMaAvR5V1yDuwh-OFRiZB9YjMUtsSb09IPMYdmamUpzfXB2dk_TOyaP2oZekvxPvKqrHj7QZwwJVA_mg26Wx3QLgHG_P7Wk9BD2MgvkH/s320/NikkySink.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">We
decided to take him in and keep him, had him vaccinated, neutered, etc.
and he quickly began to work his way into our hearts. He was a
handsome devil with his Siamese Cross good looks and beautiful blue
eyes. He had a perfect disposition, was always loving and quickly
became deeply attached to my wife Candice. Like Giggles, he spent a
great deal of his time in her lap in her wheelchair. It was one of his
favorite places to be whether she was in it or not as the photo below
shows. He was totally devoted to Candice and the feeling was mutual. I
loved him too but he was never as close to me as to Candice. He had
about 12 great years with us without any kind of health problems or
problem behaviors but as he aged he developed kidney failure which I am
told is the most common cause of death in elderly cats. We took him to
the local veterinarian, had him tested, got the results, and realized
that his time with us was going to be limited. He was flushed out with
saline and perhaps some medications and placed on a special cat food for
kidney failure. The good times lasted for a few more months and he had
another episode of deterioration with another episode of the same
treatment. That episode gave him a little more time but he quickly got
to the point that he couldn't even make it into the cat box and we
realized that he needed to be let go. It was time to have him
euthanized and end his suffering. That was a tough decision.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimAj_nkmcAzEmY7qiReehfAtuGWyipaneZqxu_7FhPC3Wx638-b8-78JODZt6tb0eu_FxnZCogZog5uioCZ47Al6jOYHiJfAyHgmR7tT-I-DFPUBwGS7A1u1P9rxPlMYSZMDEwlumNJw8erG0Nc19xZi1yyh_TxZs2tpZu5-GY3mvsM0R8e7icvtHQTqhi/s4000/IMG_0274%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimAj_nkmcAzEmY7qiReehfAtuGWyipaneZqxu_7FhPC3Wx638-b8-78JODZt6tb0eu_FxnZCogZog5uioCZ47Al6jOYHiJfAyHgmR7tT-I-DFPUBwGS7A1u1P9rxPlMYSZMDEwlumNJw8erG0Nc19xZi1yyh_TxZs2tpZu5-GY3mvsM0R8e7icvtHQTqhi/s320/IMG_0274%20(1).JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0EnGGVrbVFXXV9ewX7uuosVg-s4c8LQSPESV6v6GWeu8Lg4lKDjfKrnsq-Gc99aKEkesPVUOUy0yIoozC1MkO4IitCAlDGbyaGdJtOff8xZUh_w4y7WcphyrKBZouUrqmES7FKoO3nHE35yi9UN2QX_WT-iZ1JiOA4R4bnr0VZTSXTN0riT3S7b-O3-tr/s4000/IMG_0841.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0EnGGVrbVFXXV9ewX7uuosVg-s4c8LQSPESV6v6GWeu8Lg4lKDjfKrnsq-Gc99aKEkesPVUOUy0yIoozC1MkO4IitCAlDGbyaGdJtOff8xZUh_w4y7WcphyrKBZouUrqmES7FKoO3nHE35yi9UN2QX_WT-iZ1JiOA4R4bnr0VZTSXTN0riT3S7b-O3-tr/s320/IMG_0841.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>When
we took him to the veterinarian on November 30, 2023, to be euthanized,
Candice couldn't go inside with me and Bubby for the end. I took him
in and was eventually taken back to a treatment room. The veterinarian
and her vet tech were both great in how they dealt with us. The vet
tech took him back to another room to insert a catheter and give him a
mild sedative to help him relax. Then she brought him back to the room
and left us alone for at least 15 minutes. I held him on my lap, talked
to him, told him I loved him and that he was going to Kitty Kat
Heaven. When the veterinarian and vet tech came back in they asked me
if I was ready, and did the necessary work as he lay on a table. We all
petted him as he fell off to a peaceful sleep and the end came. I had
been present on many occasions in the Thoroughbred horse business in
which I worked for several years when we euthanized horses, some of them
very successful and famous race horses. But I had never had an animal
euthanized before with whom I had such a deep and loving connection. I
managed not to cry in the office but I have cried many times since. He
was one of the best cats I have ever known and I have known many good
cats. He was more like a child and the other nickname I had often used
with him was "Son". He had been a major part of our lives for 13 years
and had been a very important part of Candice's support system with her
life in a wheelchair. We brought him home, placed him in his favorite
Cat Napper wrapped in a blanket and I buried him in the front yard near
the edge of our porch beside Giggles who had died in 2015. We still
haven't ordered his tombstone like hers but will do so in spring. He
will be forever missed in our hearts and minds. He was a fine cat and,
as I have said many time, we had him for 13 year and he never lied to
me, never stole anything from me, never asked me to borrow money, and
never voted a Republican vote in his life. You can't ask anything more
from a cat! </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_A2rei05zfXkBaBtbOhVacFVWSTelI_RxqvRTuRJIdZjW4nUfQaTJvd-b0titeqDH4WLA_8Ju8MbHkeSO8WwT6lA_j7UWP6m24bOq3AoGP-_yjFXtbIUzsVGE5XQU-zfdTjC9vWb7L1JI0u0fAN2i8np5Wj8Hl02vYXApJTNFRVV3x-cbfO0DO35-Qmr4/s4000/IMG_0246%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_A2rei05zfXkBaBtbOhVacFVWSTelI_RxqvRTuRJIdZjW4nUfQaTJvd-b0titeqDH4WLA_8Ju8MbHkeSO8WwT6lA_j7UWP6m24bOq3AoGP-_yjFXtbIUzsVGE5XQU-zfdTjC9vWb7L1JI0u0fAN2i8np5Wj8Hl02vYXApJTNFRVV3x-cbfO0DO35-Qmr4/s320/IMG_0246%20(1).JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-5187240328413747812024-02-01T17:36:00.002-05:002024-02-01T17:57:46.758-05:00Ground Hog Day, Yum, Yum!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1r9G4E4GuzBKWTMxFmBJScELBXHNq1hbzfs8yBZwZu5XSPqB7Pe9W0f-p0YMxgyAzSRGOQYKFr3WIM5RBRPHl7OpTFd2Qv-VHLD0n98ZUEnhssCs837jpVMA_qoSo1ybv9x2vd3ovR1M_9ROl4HK7YnlcvXvbFfVXMTgoSiooZDGjThqGwkVG7JB9DM3U/s626/groundhogboy.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1r9G4E4GuzBKWTMxFmBJScELBXHNq1hbzfs8yBZwZu5XSPqB7Pe9W0f-p0YMxgyAzSRGOQYKFr3WIM5RBRPHl7OpTFd2Qv-VHLD0n98ZUEnhssCs837jpVMA_qoSo1ybv9x2vd3ovR1M_9ROl4HK7YnlcvXvbFfVXMTgoSiooZDGjThqGwkVG7JB9DM3U/s320/groundhogboy.jpeg" width="245" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tomorrow, February 2, 2024, will be Groundhog Day just as the second day of February 2 has been every year since February 2, 1887, which coincidentally was just 6 days before my father Ballard Hicks was born. It began in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and has slowly spread all over the nation. Tomorrow, the mayor and various other public officials in Punxsutawney will be joined by a bevy of media reporters and photographers, and a small crowd of assorted gawkers to learn if their beloved groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, now likely in his 125th or so generation, will or will not see his shadow and will or will not predict six more weeks of winter. It is a nice little piece of public relations for a relatively small town of roughly 6,000 which brings in a few hundred outsiders once a year to buy breakfast and maybe a tank of gasoline after having spent the preceding night in a local motel. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But, in my childhood on Beaver Creek in Knott County Kentucky, groundhog day could come on any day of the year when the weather was warm enough for groundhogs to not be hibernating. We had groundhog day anytime a member of the family was lucky enough to encounter, kill, dress, and cook a nice fat groundhog. The primary event at our house on groundhog day did not involve standing around and waiting for the local officials to fish a pet groundhog out of its concrete burrow, hold it up in front of an adoring crowd, smile for the cameras, and expound on their interpretation of what that groundhog could not verbalize for itself about the weather. Our version of groundhog day involved hearing the excited yells of whichever family member had actually bagged a groundhog and was yelling from the yard for the skinning knife and a dishpan in which the dressed meat could be brought into the house. The primary event on groundhog day at our house was supper and, if we were lucky, groundhog day could happen several times a year. It was also unlikely to be on February 2nd especially if it was a hard winter and the local groundhogs were still hibernating. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes, we got lucky and spotted a groundhog minding its own business within range of a .22 rifle near the house. Sometimes, our dog might just stray into a groundhog, alert the family, and drive it into its den which we would dig it out of with as few tools as possible. If necessary, we might have to build a small fire or use a bee smoker to smoke it out of its hole if it was in a particularly rocky spot. But, whatever the circumstances, when we spotted a groundhog it was lucky if it did not become the guest of honor at supper time. You literally have not had a fine supper until you have eaten a groundhog baked slowly in the oven with black pepper and sage and surrounded it on the supper table with a pan of cat head biscuits, homemade butter, <a href="http://myappalachianlife.blogspot.com/2020/09/making-and-eating-shucked-beans.html" target="_blank">shucked beans,</a> new potatoes, and whatever else might be available from the garden, cellar, or among the pantry full of canned goods. Baking with black pepper and sage was our favorite recipe for ground hog but I have seen many other variants on the best way to cook a groundhog. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For many years, I have owned a copy of "The L. L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook" by Angus Cameron and Judith Jones. That book has two recipes for what they call woodchuck, the other prevalent name for the fat fellow we sometimes called Mr. Whistle Pig due to the sharply pitched whistle which they use as a warning cry if they spot or sense danger. The L. L. Bean cookbook has one great sentence to begin their little section of recipes about groundhogs: <i>"When one considers the number of woodchucks shot each year as varmints it is a pity that so few of them are eaten."</i> That is a beautiful sentence and sentiment. I have to admit that I have never actually tried either of the recipes in the book but they are both interesting. The first is <i>"Baked Young Woodchuck In Sour Cream And Mustard". </i>The second is <i>"Oven-Barbecued Woodchuck Or Muskrat"</i>. That is a wonderful sounding idea and I should have tried it long ago. And, Yes!, I have eaten muskrat also and it is wonderful when it is prepared properly. But that is fodder for a whole other blog post. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">A quick search of the internet produces a recipe called "<a href="https://foragerchef.com/a-groundhog-stew/" target="_blank">A Groundhog Stew"</a>. Another is for "<a href="https://homegrownhandgathered.com/braised-groundhog-tacos/" target="_blank">Braised Groundhog Tacos</a>". Another, under the label "<a href="https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/groundhog-day-groundhog-recipes/" target="_blank">How To Cook Groundhog</a>" calls for a basic stew with vegetables much like a pot roast. Yet another internet recipe calls for "<a href="https://practicalselfreliance.com/buttermilk-fried-woodchuck-groundhog/" target="_blank">Buttermilk Fried Groundhog</a>" which could be very interesting with buttermilk made from Old Bossy's fresh milk prepared in grandma's churn. There are several more easily found and readily prepared groundhog recipes to be found on the internet. But I must also offer this one word of caution about killing and eating groundhogs. Sadly, the widespread dissemination of coyotes all over the country has had a directly related reduction in the numbers of groundhogs in most areas. But, at least once every one of you should try a groundhog for supper on groundhog day at your house. But you should also consider doing whatever you can to help protect, preserve, and disseminate groundhogs in your area. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEize0m3N6PymwthwBpBrat0cSYrrFDB3l6blrUskEoAIgTSlJxNbVmMUr88Dk1MB38guj0QdNcLSoQWrNdPzVskDcuTMsNTvXI0_IGaxu1dj0mJ-iQ-4uEROGPRY42YFpZshzLr6QbhQ5dPDsOJxm2i9-jjTjge7xvrJMMB8srT2H4iAtKo_l-wtbksXPLA/s462/groundhog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="462" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEize0m3N6PymwthwBpBrat0cSYrrFDB3l6blrUskEoAIgTSlJxNbVmMUr88Dk1MB38guj0QdNcLSoQWrNdPzVskDcuTMsNTvXI0_IGaxu1dj0mJ-iQ-4uEROGPRY42YFpZshzLr6QbhQ5dPDsOJxm2i9-jjTjge7xvrJMMB8srT2H4iAtKo_l-wtbksXPLA/s320/groundhog.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-72079985161025464882024-01-31T15:25:00.012-05:002024-01-31T15:32:40.716-05:00Somebody Is Murdering Democracy<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmm8yOlAuJyOLUl9vNt7q_dfwvTHsdMmBJcONH6zYLy-AgQYLsdaQMTt6adfNN6RRtR96OQUR91ZfOvpFqW9haqVSgobKSTTyKNJ9xFuArPMebaU364LfPQwJQTPbSKCDToxnpKUdWDKZ86wKtSUlPW4v66pRCSf2OtdVElg88Vglw7h6dU9P53-is3soe/s1800/Flag.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1800" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmm8yOlAuJyOLUl9vNt7q_dfwvTHsdMmBJcONH6zYLy-AgQYLsdaQMTt6adfNN6RRtR96OQUR91ZfOvpFqW9haqVSgobKSTTyKNJ9xFuArPMebaU364LfPQwJQTPbSKCDToxnpKUdWDKZ86wKtSUlPW4v66pRCSf2OtdVElg88Vglw7h6dU9P53-is3soe/s320/Flag.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Somebody Is Murdering Democracy </b><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Nobody sees their crimes on Pennsylvania Avenue</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We don’t have fingerprints or the weapons Putin used</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But they’re murdering democracy, cutting out its heart and
soul</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They’re getting away with murder on Embassy Row</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Are killing democracy and for that someone should hang</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They all say not guilty but the evidence will show</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That murder was committed on Embassy Row</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unfed children cry and the Puerto Ricans pray</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Treason and Russian hackers are right up in our face</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hillary didn’t have a chance against criminal politics</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trump has murdered democracy and it makes me mighty sick</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trump thought no one would miss it once it was dead and gone</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Putin told him no one will ever<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>know Just keep up the treason and sing a
pretty song</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well there ain't no justice in it and the hard facts are
cold</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Murder's been committed down on Embassy row.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unfed children cry and the Puerto Ricans pray</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Treason and Russian hackers are right up in our face</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thomas Paine wouldn’t have a chance in today’s politics</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trump has murdered democracy and it makes me mighty sick</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They’d even tell George Washington to pack up and go back
home</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since Trump murdered democracy on Embassy Row.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Copyright 2018 by Roger D. Hicks with consideration to Larry
Cordle</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCAccxD81ugJW9P7JCVVpMv7ztww1lcB9tNSMnz4J6FPXlHXPaPbCXDsVqloXQRtVsgFid5RLO6yinksZNzdEuVnPkMyD179Yj65AABwMxsTjOUcgx17ZIs1QsFB-n0-T4JKE52W2F05uQmLfzadrvcyVqjs-eW9XaeSM9qt07bIsp0iJA78BWB1i6omzZ/s500/SlyngstadLiberty.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="500" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCAccxD81ugJW9P7JCVVpMv7ztww1lcB9tNSMnz4J6FPXlHXPaPbCXDsVqloXQRtVsgFid5RLO6yinksZNzdEuVnPkMyD179Yj65AABwMxsTjOUcgx17ZIs1QsFB-n0-T4JKE52W2F05uQmLfzadrvcyVqjs-eW9XaeSM9qt07bIsp0iJA78BWB1i6omzZ/s320/SlyngstadLiberty.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-14288967360450844102024-01-31T15:13:00.006-05:002024-01-31T15:14:27.605-05:00My Concept Of Writing<p style="text-align: justify;">The little ditty below is a brief statement I wrote a couple of years ago for posting on the internet literary website, "<a href="https://moultoniancreativity.weebly.com/author-biographies.html" target="_blank">Creativity Webzine</a>", which is based in Germany and on which I have had three short stories published over the recent years. It is separate on that website from my primary biographical statement and was published as part of a larger section by numerous writers about how and why we write. While this little piece and about two dollars will buy you a cup of bad coffee from your favorite gasoline station, some of you who read this blog regularly might find it interesting. As for my work on "Creativity Webzine", you can go to this link "<a href="https://moultoniancreativity.weebly.com/fiction.html" target="_blank">Creativity Webzine: Fiction</a>" and by using the "Find On This Page" function in your web browser with my name "Roger D. Hicks" and find each of the three stories. Sadly, the website does not have a direct search function which can take you directly to any particular author, story, or other aspect of the voluminous website. If you actually go to all the trouble of finding and reading any of my stories there, I'd love to hear what you think of them by having you leave a comment on this blog post. <br /></p><p> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My
Concept Of Writing</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: dotted windowtext 3.0pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Roger
D. Hicks grew up in Appalachia, writes as an Appalachian with publications in
numerous print and online venues, and was mentored by nearly a dozen of the
best writers in the history of Appalachian Literature.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For me, writing is a
natural part of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I write to help
explain, preserve, protect, and defend the vibrant culture which made me what I
am today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I write both fiction and
non-fiction with the intention of producing the best work of which I am
capable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My writing has been influenced
both by the Appalachian writers who have been my friends, mentors, and role
models and by the great masters whom I have read for my entire lifetime:
Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Pearl Buck, Flannery O’Connor, P. J. Laska, Bob
“Billy Greenhorn” Snyder, James Still, Kate Chopin, Kerouac, Solzhenitsyn,
Tolstoy, George Eliot, Guy de Maupassant, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and dozens more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t write to emulate anybody but I
attempt to learn from everybody whose work I read from the penultimate masters
to those mistaken idiots who crank out drivel without the ability to understand
just how awful their scribblings are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Examples must be inspirations, objectives, and warning signs along the
road of literature and life in order to be well rounded and useful as a
whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope that the last thing I
write is the inscription on my tombstone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-89740721933626941272024-01-31T10:08:00.002-05:002024-01-31T10:08:12.876-05:00Love Must Be Forgiven<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikMiJCCIyYPspPGwrgZgRN4d1cz8bkUhaVgNGZbDaOpg09XnoYllBhGD1fRBSU8yeGkPttrijM4NbYXAF1N79xgyvCMho0NCcKRH3kVqDE90tf01SF5RcVjeLrLXgPfsgUy-9v4salmlw7KY9Qi-_bqIYZjHZ5vau_ll98EJiW9EvJh80rUNw3QN_Yl7HJ/s612/hook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikMiJCCIyYPspPGwrgZgRN4d1cz8bkUhaVgNGZbDaOpg09XnoYllBhGD1fRBSU8yeGkPttrijM4NbYXAF1N79xgyvCMho0NCcKRH3kVqDE90tf01SF5RcVjeLrLXgPfsgUy-9v4salmlw7KY9Qi-_bqIYZjHZ5vau_ll98EJiW9EvJh80rUNw3QN_Yl7HJ/s320/hook.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes, I get some ideas which are not fully hatched. As I recall, I was wondering if I could have ever been a country songwriter when I produced this which I now consider just to have been bad poetry. I was trying to write a country lyric with a hook. For those who have never heard that word, a hook is a repeated line in a song. The most memorable hook line in a hook song that I can think of is from "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me" by the great songwriter Mac Davis. As I recall the story I heard him tell once about the song, he was in a dry spell with writing and hadn't produced anything significant in a while. He said he was talking with his producer or music publisher one or the other about the problem and that person, whomever they were, suggested that Mac write a hook song. So he sat down and wrote "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me". It was a massive success. <span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">The song reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts in September 1972, spending three weeks as the number 1 song on each chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 8 song of 1972. That is the best story about a hook song I have ever heard and actually one of the best hook songs I know also. My little piece of work below is very ordinary in my opinion and won't amount to a hill of beans. </span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Love Must Be
Forgiven</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She said she’d love me all her
life.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She said she’s proud to be my
wife.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She said we’d be together till
the end</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">But the end came early my friend.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She just left without a fight</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Love must be forgiven somewhere
tonight</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She said we’d raise children just
like me</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She said how proud you’re gonna
be</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">But when I look for what I cannot
see</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She’s missing from the family
tree</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She just left without a fight</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Love must be forgiven somewhere
tonight.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We never fought She never cried</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">But soon her love was denied</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I loved her so Lord knows I tried</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She just left and I could have
died</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She gave up without a fight</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Love must be forgiven somewhere
tonight.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I never saw the end until it came</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">My tears fall down just like the
rain</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I think of her through this
refrain</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She gave up without a fight</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Love must be forgiven somewhere
tonight.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Copyright August 2, 2021, by
Roger D. Hicks</p>
Roger D. Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187085011525746619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873404414266584136.post-82531905834291367202023-12-31T16:57:00.002-05:002023-12-31T16:57:15.568-05:00Life With A Rare Genetic Disorder<p style="text-align: justify;"> I wrote this about four years ago as a potential submission to an online magazine which is focused on the disability community and it was not published there. I've never done anything with it otherwise and finally decided to post it here since I do think it is worth reading and someone might actually get something positive from it. I have also added a small addendum at the bottom about one related recent event. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Life
With A Rare Genetic Disorder</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On a bright, sunshiny day
in June 1992, my wife Candice walked down an irregular stone path to the main
overlook of New River Gorge National Park on her father’s arm and we were
married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time, she was in her early
twenties, seventeen years younger than me, and so far as we knew she was
perfectly healthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had been running
college track just a couple of years before at the University of
Wisconsin-Platteville.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She quickly
obtained a job as a state social worker in Eastern Kentucky where I had been
raised and quickly adapted to life in Appalachia although she had never been in
the region before we met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Four or five years later,
she began having difficulty with walking over irregular terrain and the thing I
remember most vividly is that sometimes she would simply lock up in the soft
dirt of our garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We began a series of
encounters with neurologists and tests for every neurological disease known to
the medical world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the tests results
were negative and one doctor even told us Candice’s symptoms were
psychosomatic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This cycle eventually
brought us to Dr. Joseph Berger, M. D., at the University of Kentucky Hospital
in Lexington where he was the department chair and a professor of both
neurology and psychiatry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Berger is
one of the most intelligent, professional, and dedicated humans I have ever
known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After several visits and a repeat
of the tests for ALS, MS, MD, and other diseases, all of which were still
negative, Dr. Berger sat down with us one day and said, “I don’t know.” for
about a half hour which is still one of the strangest experiences I have ever
had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He suggested that we consider going
to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, which Candice
agreed to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">At NIH, we met Dr. Elif
Arioglu, M. D., an equally brilliant, caring, and dedicated young Turkish
Muslim woman who was on a fellowship at NIH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She became Candice’s regular primary physician during the five years or
so we traveled to Bethesda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Candice’s
initial health history at NIH was done by the Director of the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Dr. Simeon Taylor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he walked into the room and introduced
himself along with his job title, I realized even more than I had when Dr.
Berger said “I don’t know” that we were in truly deep water. I knew that if the
president had been ill with similar problems Dr. Taylor and his associates
would have been on the job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Human Genome Project
was in full swing during the time we were traveling to NIH and we learned about
it and got some hope that when the human genome was fully understood we might
have a solution to Candice’s problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Candice
was enrolled in some research protocols, tested in every way known to modern
medical science, and provided maintenance medications and some adaptive
equipment as her disease continued to progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We met some of the most brilliant medical practitioners and researchers
in the world along with a growing group of the most exotic patients and
diseases we could imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NIH was a
highly educational and sometimes inspiring place to spend four or five days
every three to six months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But five
years rolled by with no easy answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dr. Berger and Dr. Arioglu eventually co-authored two journal articles
about Candice’s condition and her father who had a similar body type and other
mild symptoms was also brought into the NIH programs for a few years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">But nobody came up with
any ready answers and eventually Candice grew tired of the endless poking,
prodding, tests, and the endless parade of brilliant medical students who
repeatedly asked the same questions for their own education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After five years, she withdrew from NIH but
had continued to work for the state of Kentucky the entire time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She found it necessary to transfer from the
Department for Social Services as an investigative worker after she progressed
from a cane to a walker to a wheelchair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But for ten years, she continued as a food stamp worker, and eventually
secretary, at the local food stamp office before she finally retired on
disability after having worked in that office for ten years after she had progressed into a manual wheelchair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During this period of slow
steps backward, she also began to drive with hand controls and eventually took
her state pension and Social Security.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We remodeled our house with an accessible bathroom and ramps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We learned to adjust to life with a
wheelchair and a ramp van.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But answers
were not forthcoming other than knowing that she had a rare inherited genetic
condition which was linked to both spinocerebellar degeneration and lipodystrophy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, a researcher in the Toronto area who
was working on diabetes research, was able to use NIH generated data along with the data from her one visit years before to the Cincinnati Children's Hospital and
isolate the particular genetic flaw which caused Candice’s problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Berger finally told us a few years into
the problems that the flaw had been found in only two other patients in all of
North America and that he believed all three had a common ancestor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there were no further answers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">No one ever believes
they, or someone they love, will become a patient with a disease for the
medical journals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those things don’t
happen to ordinary people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it
happened to Candice and me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time
Candice had decided she could no longer work in an office setting, the medical
records we mailed to the Social Security Administration were shipped in a
medium sized cardboard container with the first piece of paper in the box being
a letter from Dr. Berger stating that in his professional opinion Candice was
totally disabled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have no idea if any
worker at Social Security ever read that entire box of records and we suspect
that the collective weight of Dr. Berger’s letter and the weight of the box
settled the disability case whether the records were ever read or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the past twenty
years, Candice and I have adjusted to our lives together as well as any two
people could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have traveled to both
Canada and Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We attend concerts
regularly and love to find new things to see, do, and experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we still wonder how life might have been
different if NIH had truly been the magical place we thought it might be the
first time we entered those doors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr.
Arioglu has taught medicine at the University of Michigan for most of the last
twenty years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Berger has retired
from the University of Kentucky and works with the same dedication as always as
the Chief of the Multiple Sclerosis Division at the University of
Pennsylvania.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Candice and I still live
in the same modified home in Eastern Kentucky and work to accept our lives
together without any answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Copyright 2019 by Roger
D. Hicks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>ADDENDUM</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This addendum is being written on New Year's Eve 2023 and about two weeks ago our phone rang for the second time over the last twenty years with Dr. Elif Arioglu (Oral), now married about twenty years with two grown sons, seeking the latest news about Candice and her health and also asking if she might be interested in participating in some of Dr. Arioglu (Oral's) ongoing research at the University of Michigan. We have always both respected and appreciated this woman who, despite her intense work schedule as a doctor, medical researcher, educator, and director of two research programs at the university, has never forgotten us and has found time to become more a friend than a doctor we once knew. If you have to be saddled with such a rare medical condition, it is an incredible blessing to also be gifted with knowing such a brilliant and caring doctor. <b> </b> <br /></span></p>
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