Robert Register made it to the Sturdivant Hall website! http://sturdivanthall.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27

The newspaper clipping my Mother left me was a portion of THE OPTIMIST'S CREED first published in 1912 by Christian D. Larson

image courtesy of our buddy Ernie
Christian Larson 1912
http://manifestlaboratory.blogspot.com/2009/09/optimist-creed-by-christian-larson.html

www.mycivilwar.com/battles/650402b.htm


I am amazed @ the valor of Gen. Forrest's personal brigade's last calvary charge of the Civil War which occurred at 4 o'clock in the afternoon on 4/1/1865 @ Ebenezer Church on Bogler's Creek, 20 mi. N. of Selma. Forrest's 200 cavalrymen, each armed with 2 Navy Colts, a Spencer repeating rifle & a saber/bowie knife put their reins in their teeth and charged the 17th Indiana.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3AX4nw6JDg

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Greetings

This is the official release of the 2010 Battle of Selma Civil War Re-enactment

youtube promotional video. In the last few years social marketing has become

a big thing. Please help us make this year's " Battle ", April 22-25, a

successful Event by:

1) Watching this promotional video

2) Rating it if possible, and most important

3) Forwarding it to anyone you think may be able to tolerate a little

history & period music in 3 minute doses.

The point is, the more views, the easier it comes up or can be found on the internet. Just click on the link below to view.

As in 2009, this Video was put together by Brandon Lundy and Elizabeth Hammonds. I think they did a great job. The 2009 video had over 3,450 different viewers over the last year. About 1,000 came in the 4 weeks prior to the “battle”. I think that was the result of this same request last year. So thank you!

Also please take a look at our new website linked below.

Thank You in Advance for your help!

James H. Hammonds, Chair

Battle of Selma Committee

April 1865 Society, Inc.

www.battleofselma.com

To See the "Battle Of Selma 2010" Promotional Video click on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7RP5zJLyys

P.S. In the coming weeks the April 1865 Society, Inc., the Re-enactment’s Official Sponsor will launch its initial membership drive. A membership form is on the website. Col. Percy Blackmon, Ret. has consented to be our first Membership Chairman. Please help when he contacts you about supporting the “ Battle ”.

A U.S. Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist who was badly injured and unconscious.

On the opposite side of the road was an
American Marine in a similar but less serious state.
The Marine was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the squad leader asked the injured Marine what had happened.

The Marine reported, "I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway here, and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent. We saw each other and both took cover in the ditches along
the road.

I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein
was a miserable, lowlife scum bag who got what he
deserved. And he yelled back
that Barack Obama is a lying, good-for-nothing, left wing Commie who isn't even an American.
So I said that Osama Bin Laden dresses and acts like a frigid, mean-spirited lesbian! He retaliated by yelling, "Oh yeah? Well, so does Nancy Pelosi!"
"And, there we were, in the middle of the road, shaking hands, when a truck hit us

Robert,

I love that picture. Not only because of the Moody Hospital Association (I was born there. I went with my father to make rounds there seeing his patients who were in the hospital. Dr. Spann set my broken arm there. And I spot Mrs. Mazyck at the middle table and it looks like Dot Moffett on the end of the first row on the left), but also because of the beauty of that ball room. It is now covered with all kinds of sound proofing and sound equipment because it is the stage for WTVY’s broadcasting. I would love to gather pictures and stories of all kinds of events at the Houston Hotel to make a book of memories for that Grand Old lady.

My Mother-in-law, Hilda Ramsey, once managed the restaurant while she tried very hard to make a success of her husband, Robert Ramsey’s, investment. At one time they were the major shareholders in that family owned hotel. I remember trying out ladyhood by going to the restaurant with a friend and ordering shrimp salad and “mile high” lemon pie. Mammy, the woman who helped my parents raise us, once was a cook at the Hotel. My Mother-in-law held my husband’s and my After Rehearsal party in that beautiful room (40plus years ago). I also remember attending a cotillion in that room with all the mirrors reflecting the myriad of colors of all of the beautiful formal gowns and handsome young men. It was led by Madalyn and Larry Smith. If I knew how to enlarge that picture I would take it to my Mother and Daddy to see who they can recognize in it. While they don’t remember today, their memories are quite sharp on long ago. Some days.

I added the article about the Mazycks and Moodys to their genealogy page on my website. Thanks so much for sharing that!

Sharman

I'm calling this THE 4th PRAYER


PROMISE MYSELF!

#1~ To be so strong that nothing can disturb MY peace of mind.

#2~ To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.

#3~ To make all MY friends feel that there is something in them.

#4~ To look at the sunny side of everything and make MY optimism come true.

#5~ To think of the best; to work only for the best; and expect only the best.

#6~ To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about MY own.

#7~ To forget the mistakes of the past, and press on to greater achievements for the future.

#8~ TO WEAR A CHEERFUL COUNTENANCE AT ALL TIMES AND GIVE EVERY CREATURE I MEET A SMILE.

#9~ To give so much time to the improvement of MYSELF that I have no time to criticize others.

#10~ To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.


Jut, Ms. Thomley & MY MAMA!

Notice how the idiots misspelled Dr. Mazyck's name

MOMMIE

The Moody Hospital Alumni Association Meeting in the Houston Hotel

Medical Chain Long, Unbroken In Mazyck's Family
by Nat C. Faulk
Eagle Editor(Ret.)
from THE DOTHAN EAGLE, Wed., July 9, 1975

Dr. Earle Farley Mazyck has returned home to practice medicine after 12 years of college, internship, and thereby hangs a tale that echoes local history with accent on continuity.

A native of Dothan, Dr. Mazyck is the son of a doctor, the grandson of a doctor and the great grandson of a doctor, all of whom have practiced in Dothan. The ancestral span covers almost a century. There may be similarities in professional linage elsewhere, but not in Dothan.

The fourth generation of the Moody line to practice here, Dr. Mazyck (Dothan High Class of 1963) is son of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Mazyck, 2000 W. Main Street. The elder Dr. Mazyck's paternal and maternal grandfathers were also doctors and Mrs. Mazyck is the former Miss Marjorie Moody, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. E.F. Moody of Dothan. And Dr. Moody was the son of Dr. Fleming Isaac Moody, one of Dothan's first physicians and a pioneer citizen in other respects.(ed. note: Dr. Fleming Moody and his wife died the first week of May 1900. Back in '68, Richard Burke, who was tallest, replaced the stone flame on top of their obelisk in the City Cemetery. The flame was on top of a vase with a drape carved around it pinned with an opium poppy & a rose. Off the top of my head- here's the inscription on the obelisk.

OUR MOTHER AND FATHER ARE NO MORE
THEY ARE WANDERING HAND IN HAND
OVER IN THE SPIRIT LAND
HERE THEY REST
SIDE BY SIDE
EVEN DEATH ITSELF
COULD NOT DIVIDE.)

The medical saga began with the birth of Fleming Isaac Moody in Appling County, Georgia in 1856. After moving his family to Dixie, Ga. (Brooks County), he attended school in Liberty County and then entered the University of Georgia. Subsequently he graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland in 1876. He first located at Gordon, in Alabama, and then moved to Abbeville. From there he moved to Columbia and then to Dothan when it was still a part of Henry County. Dr. and Mrs. Moody died within two weeks of each other in 1900.

Earle Farley Moody was born on the Moody plantation at Saffold, Ga., along the Chattahoochee River in 1880, and came to Alabama with his parents. He was graduated in 1903 at Tulane University and began an illustrious career as a physician and surgeon in Dothan. He founded the Moody Hospital at 311 N. Alice Street and operated the institution until his death in 1952.

The senior Dr. Mazyck was born in Yazoo City, Miss., and moved to Darlington, S.C., where he was reared. He completed medical school at the University of Virginia in 1931 and began practice in Birmingham in 1934. Moving to Dothan in 1935, he became a partner of Dr. Moody in 1938. Acquiring Moody Hospital in 1953, he liquidated the facility in 1965 and continued a private practice.

Earle Farley Mazyck was graduated at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., in 1967 and completed the University of Virginia Medical School in 1971. He then interned medicine at the University of South Carolina at Charleston, S.C., the same educational institution where his great grandfather, Dr. Edmund Mazyck, once taught medicine.

The latest Dr. Mazyck is associated with Dr. James A. Robeson and Dr. W. F. Drewry in the practice of internal medicine.

Incidentally, any family reunion attended by Dr. Mazyck might well be a medical convention of sorts. His wife, the former Joan Whitney of Taftsville, Vermont is a registered nurse, and his brother, Dr. Arthur Mazyck, a Montgomery radiologist, is married to the former Miss Elizabeth Maxwell of Northport, Ala. a practicing pediatrician.

Dr. and Mrs. Mazyck are the parents of a daughter, Kathryn Augusta, nine months old. They have purchased a home at 502 N. Cherokee Avenue.

One more thing- not only did Dr. Mazyck's great grandfather, Dr. Edmund Mazyck, become a doctor after serving in the Confederate Army, so did yet another great grandfather, Dr. N. W. McKie of Canton,Miss.

ROBERTO.....If you are gonna be a respectable blogger you must have your facts straight.

The photo of Dennis ST. John and the Cardinals was great,but the guy on the right holding the bass was not Barry Bailey.

It was the great Emory Gordy. Barry played with them later. Paul Goddard was the guitarist . Dennis St. John played drums on

the Classics IV Spooky, and Emory played bass. J.R. played guitar. Later, Emory and Dennis St John moved to California.

Barry joined ARS as the guitarist and Paul joined as the bassist. Emory produced Emmylou Harris and countless other west

coast talents. He moved to Nashville and married Patty Lovelace and followed Tony Brown as the producer of her many hits.

I had a lot of talent on hand when I put the Atlanta Rhythm Section together.

I was blessed.

Long live ARS and all the musicians who

shared the dream and saw it come true.

Keep Rockin',

Buddy

I'm calling this THE 4th PRAYER


PROMISE MYSELF!

To be so strong that nothing can disturb MY peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.

To make all MY friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make MY optimism come true.

To think of the best; to work only for the best; and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I AM about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past, and press on to greater achievements for the future.

TO WEAR A CHEERFUL COUNTENANCE AT ALL TIMES AND GIVE EVERY CREATURE YOU MEET A SMILE.

To give so much time to the improvement of myself that I have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

ROBERT !

I went to Decatur High School with MORGAN WEED.
I had heard that he was killed in The Nam....your story about him brought tears to these old eyes of mine.We were good friends in high school and MORGAN was a PRINCE among men.
ONLY The GOOD DIE YOUNG !

Please keep up the good work Brother !

Love & Respect !

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John D. Wyker aka SAILCAT
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"Yes, but I'm not sure we could print those memories! LOL. Oh, I thought you meant the Goober! Well, back to the Skyvue...

Well, one of them is that we used to all pack in someone's car, preferably a stationwagon, lay down in the back, cover up with a blanket, so only the driver and passenger had to pay for tickets. Duh - wonder how many people did this and how much revenue the Skyvue lost because you know they knew everyone did this! LOL!!"

Subject: SkyVue

"Child: going with my parents to see Pollyanna and thinking prisms were beautiful and magical. Watching the parting of the Red Sea, then falling asleep in the backseat during The 10 Commandments. Teenager: students piling into trunks, people driving off with the speakers, the long line of cars getting in and out of the... Drive-In.
It is a part of Americana that most of our children/grandchildren will never experience."

Roberto,

I talk to B.J. every couple weeks and he is doing great. The Brazilian album is gonna be big.

The South American people have had a love affair with B.J. for years. He is probably bigger there

than here.

I'm looking forward to the Collector's Choice compilation. I hope all the records we made will be included.

Those sessions at Studio One were memorable. We're talking about recording a new song which J.R. and I wrote.

Buddy

posted by roberto at 1:23 AM

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Subject: always my fav

"I never learned more about biology and life than in your class with Will B.(remember?). Isn't it sad to say that life was never better than in your class.
haha

I just remember most about your passion for science. You made learning interesting. I'll never forget when it was time for the monarch butterflies to come in. You stopped whatever you were teaching and began to tell us about their migration, their mating habits. It was with such passion. You made learning about the human body not so scary for this very naive innocent girl in the 9th grade. It was not stuffy or so blah that I didnt learn something. It has been a few years, but I remember you as this cool teacher. A funny man that liked to tell corny jokes every now and again. I made sure that I was on the front row absorbing every word that came from your lips.
Hope all is well. in T-town?"

"Robert, thanks for the memories about the Skyview."

"Ain't the twilight years great????"


What a memory…H

"Ah the memories! The movies were good too."

"youbetcha!"

Hi, Robert. I remember the Skyvue well. When my family moved from Mexico to Dothan, one of the first movies we went to was “Around the World in 80 Days” at the Skyvue. At the time, I was still fluent in both Spanish and English. I didn’t recognize the spelling of “Skyvue” and didn’t know how to pronounce it, so I pronounced it phonetically as “Skeevway,” assuming it had Spanish or French roots. I remember talking with Becky Parrish the Monday after at recess at Cloverdale elementary. Her parents had taken her for a picnic. I mentioned that my parents took us to see the movie at the “Skeevway.” She gave me this blank look, and asked me to repeat it. I did. She said, “What is the Skeevway?” I replied that it was a drive-in movie. She laughed and said, "It’s the ‘Sky View’."I then told her that after church the next day my parents took us to the Dari Delite for ice cream, but I pronounced it “Dahree Dayleetay.” She gave me another blank look and asked me where it was. I described its location on South Oates across from the high school. She laughed and said, "No, silly, that’s the Dairy Delight." It was not until my second year in the US that I could easily unscramble oddly-spelled brands.



--William

"Wow zz

so long ago....!
I think I remember se trunk smuggling :-)
....and THE EXORCIST..!!!!
I miss the Skyview!!
Cool idea !!! :-)"


"No way will I reveal my secrets!!"


"HOW PRECIOUS....I remember the ticket booth and lots of steamy windows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, can only remember 2 maybe 3 MOVIES! "


"I never went to the Skyvue??? Robert, I practically LIVED at the Skyvue! I had a wall decorated with the speaker boxes I ripped off the posts (never intentional---just forgetful!) Lots of great memories..."

"What like hiding in the trunk ? lol..What contribution are you needing? I will be glad to help.."


"Kids today don't have a clue what a real drive in movie was like... those scratchy sounding heavy speakers, the speed bumps you had to drive over; going to the concession stand to get popcorn and a drink. Walking in front of the car of someone you wanted to notice you, then back again. Mosquitoes eating you up 'cause you had to have your windows open to hold the speakers. Ah, good memories! We city kids rarely went to the Goober theatre, just the Bama or the Skyvue, definitely the best!"


"Robert, do you really think anyone would want to publish/confess
"Skyvue Stories"..."

"Ohhh, yeah!"



"i remember sitting in a car beside the car and playing on the playground as a kid at the skyvue"

"I can remember going to the Skyvue with my sister and some of her friends. One time we stopped and let somebody get into the trunk, to save the admission charge. Once we got in, we went to the back row to let her out. Another car pulled up a few spaces down and everyone kind of freaked, not knowing who it was. Only, after stopping, they got out and went to their trunk and let 2 guys out of it!!"


"I don't think I ever watched one movie at the drive-in...lol... oh what memories"

"I think the Goober recollections would get ya' da' mos' bang fo' da' buck.

We'd take Franks VW van and park it sideways, open the door, drag out the lawn chairs, put both speakers fore and aft and watch the Quadfecta of all films, Help, Hard Days Night, Yellow Submarine and Let It Be. We'd be almost straight by Let It Bees' end. At least I think that's what we did."

"Oh, I don't know about that!! But, I remember driving off with the speaker still attached to the window. Never a good thing to do!!! "

"heard a rumor once that they actually showed movies there but can't remember ever watching one"


"When I was very young, I remember my parents putting my siblings and me in our pajamas and going to the Skyvue. We would all fall asleep and it would make putting us to bed easier upon our return home. Much later, I took dates there throughout most of my dating years. It was always a fun place to go. I don't remember when it closed down."


"I remember going with a carload of guys and sitting on the hood of the car for part of the movie. I also remember double dating with friends and not remembering much about what was happening on the screen. What good times were had."

"I was reluctant to comment upon this, because I am such a dull person. Or I have selective amnesia, one or the other.
My memories are rather...foggy...shall we say.

Let's see...memories of the Skyvue. I remember going with my Mother and Daddy to see the Bridge Over the River Kwai. It was a rainy, rainy, night and my Daddy said all I wanted to do was eat. It was the last movie he ever went to. I still remember the taste of those hamburgers, however.

I do remember going to the Drive In with my now (40 years) husband. He actually went to watch the movie! Yet, this is the man who is the role model for all the heroes in the books I write. Fortunately, I have a great imagination."

"I sure do! I remember when I was a junior @ DHS I had a date with Charlie Taylor, a senior. He was a real catch, too. Anyway, when we pulled up to the booth to pay to get in, he said he didn't have enough $ for 2 to get in and would I crouch down in the floorboard. Well, like a dummy, I did and he just laughed his ass off. I fell for it.
What about the Goober Drive In??? Me and my brother Jay and Lamar Alley used to sneak in that place all the time. Really crappy "B" movies."

"Yeah Gail, we were always on the back row, right?"

"Right Suellen.....fun times all those double dates we used to have with McCarty & Pruitt!"

"Great post Robert. I remember seeing "Jaws" in the 70's with my parents at the Skyvue."

"Must have been a common practice because I remember the same; did not do much for the window! I also remember a playground and the snackbar."

posted by roberto at 5:59 PM

Blown Glass

posted by roberto at 3:53 PM

Saturday, February 20, 2010

ROBERTO.....If you are gonna be a respectable blogger you must have your facts straight.

The photo of Dennis ST. John and the Cardinals was great,but the guy on the right holding the bass was not Barry Bailey.

It was the great Emory Gordy. Barry played with them later. Paul Goddard was the guitarist . Dennis St. John played drums on

the Classics IV Spooky, and Emory played bass. J.R. played guitar. Later, Emory and Dennis St John moved to California.

Barry joined ARS as the guitarist and Paul joined as the bassist. Emory produced Emmylou Harris and countless other west

coast talents. He moved to Nashville and married Patty Lovelace and followed Tony Brown as the producer of her many hits.

I had a lot of talent on hand when I put the Atlanta Rhythm Section together.

I was blessed.

Long live ARS and all the musicians who

shared the dream and saw it come true.

Keep Rockin',

Buddy

I'm calling this THE 4th PRAYER


PROMISE MYSELF!

To be so strong that nothing can disturb MY peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.

To make all MY friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make MY optimism come true.

To think of the best; to work only for the best; and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I AM about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past, and press on to greater achievements for the future.

TO WEAR A CHEERFUL COUNTENANCE AT ALL TIMES AND GIVE EVERY CREATURE YOU MEET A SMILE.

To give so much time to the improvement of myself that I have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.