Back to the main articles page Republican Action Club Meeting / An Open Report Last evening, Thursday July 19, 2007, I would have the honor of addressing the members and their guest of the Asheville, Buncombe County Republican Action Committee. It was a most enjoyable experience especially when I finally got it off my chest as I had at the Executive Committee meeting of the Republicans, that this party was not the [...]
Back to the main articles page Thanks Dear Mr.. Demastus, Would you please post this for me ? One can get so tied up in their day to day activities that you can tend to forget to stop and thank all those who give of their fiscal and humane support for the things you do with the assumption that they do understand that you are thankful. I am guilty . Had it [...]
Back to the main articles page An Open Letter To President George W. Bush / Putting An End To The Cold War Between The States Dear Mr.. President, Several months ago at a Town Hall Meeting in the State Capitol of Raleigh, North Carolina , as you delivered your speech on your proposed social security program , I climbed out onto the railing of the second floor balcony and asked you to [...]
Back to the main articles page An Open Letter / The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Last week I posted a letter from a lady who professed some very ugly things about White people of the South and her twisted interpretation of the Southern Cross and it's meaning ; while the sad thing is that she was White , and in all probability a transplant, from the North . After that posting, [...]
Back to the main articles page An Open Report / Sharing The Conversation From The Side Of The Road Yesterday, July 12, 2007 , I would do as I have many times before ; drive across the mountains to my favorite place in Johnson City , Tennessee ; Dixie Barbeque on North Roan Street; where I would set up my easy chair outside the restaurant, with my Confederate Battle Flag in hand [...]
Back to the main articles page An Open Report On Monday July 10, 2007, Terry Lee and I would join 3rd Brigade Commander Harry Hurst in the beautiful City of Westminster , South Carolina at the Camp meeting of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Rebel Grey Camp 2710 . Commander Hurst would lecture on the Confederate Navy. After hearing him tell of how the Federal Union Navy disregarded and broke the territorial [...]
Back to the main articles page The Annual FreeHill Homecoming / Another Lost Opportunity Free Hill(s) a historic Black community was established northeast of Celina before the War Between the States by former slaves of Virginia Hill. Hill brought her slaves from North Carolina to then Overton County , Tennessee, purchased 2,000 hilly and rough acres, settled and freed them. The freed Blacks took the surname Hill, thus the name Free Hill(s). [...]
Back to the main articles page The Annual FreeHill Homecoming / Another Lost Opportunity On Friday June 29, 2007, I would speak to Mr...Ralph Richardson, President of the Friends of Free Hill Community Board of Directors. Free Hill is a unique rural Black community made up primarily of the descendants of slaves which settled on the hill well before the War Between the States. Free Hill is located 5 miles northeast of [...]