tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post4733240146522209958..comments2024-01-29T18:03:55.225-07:00Comments on Sally Cruikshank: March of TimeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-2757846675735891972007-10-20T17:38:00.000-06:002007-10-20T17:38:00.000-06:00For a long time I was troubled by my father's fami...For a long time I was troubled by my father's family's opinions on racial matters. It seemed weird to me that they were so educated and so prejudiced. I mean, my father was in that Greek honor society at Duke, (forgotten the name), and both his parents were teachers. His mother was president of St. Mary's in Raleigh for many years.<BR/><BR/>Now all of that generation are gone. And like you said Katy, there was only one war. I feel more tolerant about it all now.<BR/><BR/>When I went to St. Mary's there was a black man who worked in the kitchen who remembered my father so fondly, from when he was a boy. This man was really old at the time. I'm sure, doing the math, that his parents were slaves.Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00874162149979602139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-10249290733118762762007-10-19T16:47:00.000-06:002007-10-19T16:47:00.000-06:00I asked my dad what town the civil war grudge brot...I asked my dad what town the civil war grudge brothers lived in. He said it was somewhere in Kentucky but he's looking up the details.Namowal (Jennifer Bourne)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00384500508934864421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-18187008003369247752007-10-19T14:21:00.000-06:002007-10-19T14:21:00.000-06:00My earliest mortal shock:I grew up in MD, and love...My earliest mortal shock:<BR/>I grew up in MD, and loved visiting my grandparents in the summers in TN. Once when I was 5 or 6, I was pitching pennies with my grandfather on the back porch of his house, overlooking the TN River. Suddenly I demanded, "Are you a Yankee or a Rebel?" When he replied, "a REBEL"--and I realized that he was SERIOUS--I was deeply shocked.<BR/><BR/>(My favorite photo is of Molly in the snow, chewing on her bone.)Linda Davickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660351950973083893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-1487738673507874892007-10-19T10:31:00.000-06:002007-10-19T10:31:00.000-06:00Namowal, what town was that in?Katy, that's so int...Namowal, what town was that in?<BR/><BR/>Katy, that's so interesting about the War... I know what you're talking about. Even though I grew up in New Jersey. There's a lot more I'd like to say about this, but it's tricky territory...<BR/><BR/>Jon's great grandfather was in the Union Army and a prisoner at Andersonville.Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00874162149979602139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-26942793773040896702007-10-18T20:37:00.000-06:002007-10-18T20:37:00.000-06:00Way too many Civil War stories for me---grandfathe...Way too many Civil War stories for me---grandfather first name Lee (as in Robt E) and middle name Forrest (as in Nathan Bedford). No other war happened, ever, only the American Civil War.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-46417326101642137542007-10-18T16:50:00.000-06:002007-10-18T16:50:00.000-06:00I don't have any good "one step away" connections ...I don't have any good "one step away" connections to the past to share. I did descend from two brothers who fought in the civil war (one on each side, of course). After the war they lived in the same small town but never spoke to each other again.Namowal (Jennifer Bourne)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00384500508934864421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13524464.post-62918418725595679932007-10-18T05:01:00.000-06:002007-10-18T05:01:00.000-06:00That's wild they told you about the Civil War! Pat...That's wild they told you about the Civil War! Pat's ancestor was a general in it. <BR/><BR/>I eat that fast!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com