The first goal is to have everyone in the house capable of reading and driving. The second is to regain much of the strength I had before the minor cancer surgery of 15 October 2018 that proved disastrous and led to a Downward Spiral which involved horrific collateral mandible damage and neuropathy. I am trying to run again but I am not anywhere near as strong as on 14 October 2018. So, health, relative health, is the overall goal.
There were years when I had two dozen projects. No more.
There's a forum on THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE upcoming in LEVIATHAN this year. In mid July should come the Library of America HERMAN MELVILLE: COMPLETE POEMS--planned for just before Melville's 200th birthday.
That's it. I want to get my discovery of the first history of the Gainesville, Texas hangings of 1862 in some Texas State Historical Association publication. I have to polish the several page politically incorrect expose of one over-ambitious leader of some murdering colored troops in 1865, Matthews and the McGehees of Amite County. I want to write an article for the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION on why it was sometimes wrong to hang Tories in North Carolina.
Bigger professional goals? Well, I thought I had a home for my Melville Collection. That seems to have disappeared because of how expensive it would be to maintain. I could always put my books and research materials on the curb a box at a time, but that seems a little irresponsible.
Probably what I will do in 2019 is learn about self-publishing. I have four thousand GLIMPSES of kinfolks from the 1600s to the early 1900s. I could do a series of shortish books--Glimpses of the American McGehee Family, the Hill Family, the Sims Family, the Bell Family, the Moore Family, the Coker Family, and Sparks Family, and many more. These Families all have a variety of documents written by them or about them in the early centuries, particularly the 19th century. I am talking about great stories that very often put family members in their places in big events of Southern history.
I bought Dragon years ago and applied myself to learning to use it until the program failed and I could no longer count on it to learn from what I did on a particular day and had no seller backup to consult or complain to. I did buy a very expensive microphone which I still have. Have there been great new developments in voice recognition where spoken words go straight to a word processing program?
Here's an old list of particular topics.
This is probably what I will do--start off with an e-book on the McGehees. That has the funniest opening, the ludicrous claim that the first colonial McGehee was really a MacGregor, when the name was banned and anyone identifying himself as a MacGregor could be killed. Ho ho ho, we all want to have links to famous people. Then comes DNA and I am a cousin of Rob Roy! And there are great American stories about my McGehees and all the cousins. Making 300 pages of documents? Easy--if there really are improvements in voice recognition and if a very old Melvillean can figure out the rudiments of self-publishing.
2019. Biggest goal: staying in denial about the fate of the United States.
There were years when I had two dozen projects. No more.
There's a forum on THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE upcoming in LEVIATHAN this year. In mid July should come the Library of America HERMAN MELVILLE: COMPLETE POEMS--planned for just before Melville's 200th birthday.
That's it. I want to get my discovery of the first history of the Gainesville, Texas hangings of 1862 in some Texas State Historical Association publication. I have to polish the several page politically incorrect expose of one over-ambitious leader of some murdering colored troops in 1865, Matthews and the McGehees of Amite County. I want to write an article for the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION on why it was sometimes wrong to hang Tories in North Carolina.
Bigger professional goals? Well, I thought I had a home for my Melville Collection. That seems to have disappeared because of how expensive it would be to maintain. I could always put my books and research materials on the curb a box at a time, but that seems a little irresponsible.
Probably what I will do in 2019 is learn about self-publishing. I have four thousand GLIMPSES of kinfolks from the 1600s to the early 1900s. I could do a series of shortish books--Glimpses of the American McGehee Family, the Hill Family, the Sims Family, the Bell Family, the Moore Family, the Coker Family, and Sparks Family, and many more. These Families all have a variety of documents written by them or about them in the early centuries, particularly the 19th century. I am talking about great stories that very often put family members in their places in big events of Southern history.
I bought Dragon years ago and applied myself to learning to use it until the program failed and I could no longer count on it to learn from what I did on a particular day and had no seller backup to consult or complain to. I did buy a very expensive microphone which I still have. Have there been great new developments in voice recognition where spoken words go straight to a word processing program?
Here's an old list of particular topics.
UNCLE
DABBS AND HIS DIRTY JOB OF QUARTERING MURDERERS
UNCLE
SAMUEL POTTENGER’S CANE
WILLIAM
SPARKS—HANGING TORIES --NO DELFT
AUNT
MARGARET’S RIDE to King's Mountain
THE
ARRIVAL OF AN OX-DRAWN WAGON TRAIN IN ALABAMA
ROBERT
EWART’S CONSULTATIONS ON THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR
Jesse
Moore having to pay for his land twice
THE
ACCUSATIONS AGAINST Milton Sims AND Jesse Sparks
Sparks
family members who gave up their land?
SOLOMON
SPARK’S CANOE RIDE
MRS
MOORE SENDING BOY OFF TO VA WITH NEW FLAX SUIT
HENRY
DELLINGER TAKING COFFEE ADDICT SMOTHERS
[Schmoller] 2ND WIFE
SWEARINGEN IDENTIFYING REUBEN COFFEY AS “OLD SORREL”
HOW
A SENATOR FROM FOUR STATES RESCUED GRANDMA SIMS
POOR
JOE HILL
RUDISILL
GOLD MINE
COUSIN
FREDERICK SLIMP AS A BOY
WILLIAM
AND MYRA MAST MYSTERY
COKER
– CHURCHMAN THAT MADE THE LIBERATOR & TIMES OF LONDON
ABIGAIL
ROGERS’S SETTING OUT WI HER OX
DANIEL
MOORE’S RIDE
JOHN
PARKER BAREFOOT IN SNOW
AUNT
KATE AND THE STICK OF FIREWOOD
CEPHAS
BELL AND HIS PRISONER
JAMES
ALEXANDER BELL AND HIS SNACKS IN HIS WAGON
JESSE
SPARKS AND NEGROES IN MEXICO & in RR car
COUSIN
LUTHER FRANCIS TUCKER AND JAMES BROS AND YOUNGER BROS
FRANKLIN
BELL AND HIS SAYING
COKERS
AND PUSHING MAN OFF BLUFF
WHAT
AMANDA TUCKER COKER DID NOT KNOW ABOUT HER MOTHER goes in loss of memory
CALVIN
COKER AND POLITICAL EXCITEMENT
BRUTAL
COUSIN GEORGE C. SCOTT AND TALENT FOR MIMICRY
DAVID
DELLINGER’S IGNORANCE ABOUT SOURCE OF MORAL RESISTANCE
MOORE
COUSINS and Bushwacking Keith Blaylock
IN 1945-- COUSIN David Dellinger AND COUSIN PAUL W. TIBBETSThis is probably what I will do--start off with an e-book on the McGehees. That has the funniest opening, the ludicrous claim that the first colonial McGehee was really a MacGregor, when the name was banned and anyone identifying himself as a MacGregor could be killed. Ho ho ho, we all want to have links to famous people. Then comes DNA and I am a cousin of Rob Roy! And there are great American stories about my McGehees and all the cousins. Making 300 pages of documents? Easy--if there really are improvements in voice recognition and if a very old Melvillean can figure out the rudiments of self-publishing.
2019. Biggest goal: staying in denial about the fate of the United States.
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