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knoxcotn-digest Wednesday, October 10 2001 Volume 01 : Number 197
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 19:48:17 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Don't forget this week's concerts! I enjoyed meeting Jerry Bryan, a member of our Dumplin list, at Bruce Davies' concert in Knoxville last week. I'm hoping I'll get to meet several of you at the concerts at Sevier County Heritage Museum (the old post office in Sevierville, corner of Bruce Street and Parkway) on Tuesday, Oct. 9, from 5:00 to 7:00; and at Glenmore Mansion in Jefferson City on Friday, Oct. 12, from 7:30 to 9:00. Come enjoy wonderful music and support these great causes. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 20:04:30 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Worth reading... Thanks to my old friend, Bill Horton, for sharing this wonderful essay. I just had to pass it along. http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/coren.html Toronto Sun newspaper October 6, 2001 My prayer: God bless America For everything it is - and some of the things it isn't By MICHAEL COREN -- Sun Media Goodness me, I've never been a particular fan of many of the foreign and domestic policies of the United States. I've said this, written this, broadcast this. I've taken a few blows for it, as well. But there is a time and a place for everything. And at this time and in this place I say just three words: God bless America. For leaving half a million men on the battlefields of Africa, Asia and Europe during World War II, a conflict the United States could easily have sat out. For effectively forcing Japan to declare war and thus join the alliance of light against the gang of darkness. God bless America. For that farm boy from Nebraska who had never even heard of Normandy or Sicily, who wanted so much to walk back from the hill but continued on, the bullets flying over and around him. For his not turning back. For his determination to do his duty and for his dedication to freedom. For his mother and for the Stars and Stripes flag she hung in her window. For his life, and for the fact that he gave it. God bless America. For being prepared to rip the country apart in a bloody spasm of civil war because, however delayed and reluctant in some quarters, the leaders and people knew that slavery was wrong. For seeing the future dawn when others could only see the enveloping night. God bless America. For Lincoln and Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Truman, Kennedy and Franklin, Jefferson and Adams. For Mark Twain and John Steinbeck, Henry James and Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. God bless America. For the legion of Nobel Prizes won with grace, for the medical breakthroughs celebrated with decorum, for the sporting records, the intellectual triumphs, the moral victories, the glory. For embracing "yes" rather than hiding behind "no." God bless America. For the pastures and forests vibrant with green and brown lushness, for the mountains and valleys that startle and shock the world. For the cities and the towns, the highways and back roads. God bless America. SMILING WITH THEM For not taking offense at the smug disdain that comes too often from other countries. For smiling with them instead of laughing at them. For usually extending a hand of friendship to those who extend the fist of anger. God bless America. For jazz and pluralism, baseball and religious tolerance, burgers and equality. For inventing and pursuing an ideal that, though not always achieved, is still glorious in the making and pristine in the chasing. God bless America. For the billions in foreign aid, greater per capita than any other country in the world. For the food, clean water, medicine, machinery given to every continent on Earth. For the Marshall Plan and Marshal Dillon, for Tom Sawyer and Tom Hanks, for New York and for the New Deal. God bless America. For not minding when foreigners actually show more ignorance about American culture than Americans ever do about theirs. For in fact being more polite and sensitive when abroad than many other peoples but merely smiling when described as ugly. God bless America. MELTING POT For inviting Irish, Jew, Italian, Pole, German, Hispanic, black, Asian, man and woman, all and every into the highest levels of government. For being the first nation in the world to treat the outsider as a guest rather than a problem. For being a melting pot rather than a melting society. God bless America. For allowing God and prayer and faith to enter public life and for not running scared of gratitude to the almighty for all that He has given us. For not lauding the religion of secularism whilst hypocritically lambasting the religions of the church, mosque and synagogue. God bless America. For your comedies and your dramas, for your movies and your novels, your sentimentality and glamour, your self-parody and self-criticism. For your splendor and for your silliness. God bless America. For being right more often than being wrong. For being the United States of America and for being unashamed of it. For being the nation that still leads the way in so many ways, still lights the path on so many days. For being you. For being. God bless America.
Michael Coren is a Toronto-based writer and broadcaster ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 22:11:13 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] What did you do on your summer vacation? Now that summer's over, and before we all settling in for our winter hiberation <g>, how about if everybody gives a report on their best genealogy find of the summer season. Was it a new technique, a new website, a fantastic book or other resource, or just finding where grampaw's first wife was buried? Inquiring minds want to know details...<g> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:54:50 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] What did you do on your summer vacation? How sweet, Anne -- Sir Spouse (John) loves giving tours to visitors at Ramsey House. If anyone's going there, please be sure to introduce yourself as a list member...you won't get any special treatment <g>, but I'll get a report on your visit!
At 09:45 PM 10/8/01 -0700, you wrote: >Billie, > >My best find of the summer was the husband of our list mom. (g). I >wasn't looking for him. I was actually looking at the old Ramsey house >where my g-g-greataunt Margaret Russell Cowen Humes Ramsy lived, and he >just popped up. A chance but welcome discovery. (g) > >Anne Pyle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:55:56 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] What did you do on your summer vacation? Margaret -- hope you're feeling better by now. And, we hope you feel well enough to spend those long winter days/nights researching! We all know how important it is to backtrack on others' research, right? <g> At 10:44 PM 10/8/01 -0700, you wrote: >Meet two new cousins on the net got a whole lot of info. Then got sick and >couldn't check out the holes to fill in but maybe this winter I can. >Margaret ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 22:29:27 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Tennesse magazine Hey -- There was a quarterly magazine published in Arkansas or Missouri up to at least 20 years ago called Ridge Runners. I think I subscribed one year.
At 07:10 PM 10/9/01 -0400, RBRICKROOM@aol.com wrote:
> About 30 years ago, I subscribed to a genealogy magazine that > included east Tennessee. Was it something like Ridge Runners? > I can't remember the name. Can someone set my memory straight? > Thanks. ~~Dixie in Indiana ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:07:30 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Laura Cooper's Mother Passed Away Many of you know Laura Cowan Cooper from list membership (and list momship for the Cowans) and her volunteer work with the Sevierville LDS Family History Center. We were excited by the tremendous open house last night at the Sevier County Heritage Museum, mostly thanks to Laura's efforts. Laura learned this morning, however, that her mother had passed away unexpectedly during the night at her home in Easley, South Carolina. Please keep Laura and her family in your thoughts and prayers during this sad time. ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #197 ******************************
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