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Skriven 2011-06-09 16:27:40 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11956 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
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Hi Hap,

-> A carpetbagger was one who moved south and took advantage of folks.
 hn> As
-> I understand, a scalliwag swooped in, took advantage of people and beat
-> feet out of town just before he was ridden out on a rail.

 hn> Most of the carpetbaggers stayed, mostly
 hn> because they had taken over properties, and
 hn> businesses of the local population. To my
 hn> aunts a Carpetbagger is lower than low, badder
 hn> than bad and more evil than evil. They consider
 hn> him a direct employee of the devil himself.

No surprise there. (G)

->  hn> Oh the carpetbaggers did very well for themselves
->  hn> during reconstruction. Much of the wealth of the
->  hn> South was taken by them.

-> Sounds similar to the missionaries and Hawaii.

 hn> At least they married into it, but yes
 hn> in many ways a very similar outcome.
 hn> You won't find any Bishop Trust in
 hn> the South however.

No Bishop Trust but enough of a Good Old Boy network in some areas that
outsiders have a hard time getting in.

-> But only one unit is devoted to cook books. Another has sewing/quilting
-> etc books, most of them have school related books. A lot of those were
-> acquired in the last couple of years.

 hn> Anne has one set of shelves full of gardening
 hn> and flower books, I have one set full of Techie
 hn> type photography books, another full of field
 hn> guides and reference books so I can always
 hn> identify what is in the photos. Another two or
 hn> more full of cookbooks, and another full of
 hn> watercolor art books (I'm an amateur watercolorist)
 hn> Then there are the fiction and non fiction books!

We've got some fiction but not too much. Non fiction is a smattering of
various things--yearbooks, some DIY, this and that--other than the above
listed. I suspect I will eliminate some of the cook books before we
move but probably not a lot of them. Definately hold on to ethnic ones
tho!

->  hn> There are great folks as well, and they
->  hn> greatly outnumber the idiots on most
->  hn> games. Yesterday was a "Little League
->  hn> Appreciation Day" so LOTS of families
->  hn> and kids, had a GREAT time!

-> Did you see yourself as you were as a kid? The wide eyed wonderment of a
-> major league ball park, the taste of a ball park hot dog, maybe an up
-> close glimpes of your hero..................?

 hn> In all my youth I only saw one pro
 hn> game...at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

I've seen 2--at Shea Stadium. Yes, with a hot dog or two but not much
more than those and a drink. Not like the garlic fries I had at U of H
games. (G)


 hn> 4th and 5th grades we were in South
 hn> Carolina and there was a minor league
 hn> team (probably single A) nearby...but
 hn> I never got in to see a game, though we
 hn> did (a group of us kids) hang around the
 hn> parking lot by the outfield fences hoping
 hn> to grab a homerun ball to use ourselves
 hn> for sandlot play.

Were you ever successful at getting one?  We could have gone to Sand
Gnats games in Savannah. Here we have a choice of the Durham Bulls or
Zebulon Mud Cats. Only pro team in the area is hockey--the Hurricanes
but lots of college teams.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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... Mind... Mind... Let's see, I had one of those around here someplace.

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