Teresa Sullivan: A "Systemic Problem" that Should be Rooted Out

The only honorable thing for Teresa Sullivan to do is to resign.

At the Local Library Today an Old Man opened his shirt to show his Sweat Shirt

He had been looking for the notorious ROLLING STONE issue, just loudly enough that I knew what he wanted. I told him not to bother finding it but to read Judith Shulevitz in the New Republic or just look online for the retraction of ROLLING STONE. Then he slowly unbuttoned his shirt to show his UVA Sweat Shirt . . . .

Charlotte Thanksgiving Day Parade 2014--The Hornets' Nest of the Revolution--and a suggestion

They are celebrating Charlotte's role in the American Revolution including the historically valid MECKLENBURG DECLARATION. Now, why can't they produce inexpensive historical tiles so folks who can't afford to live in Charlotte with their cousins can have a little MecDec on the wall of their bathroom, the way I have Arrowhead in the middle of tiles in my little study room in a Spanish Colonial California house?

You could put some stirring prose on some of the plaques . . . .
And Captain Jack, who was kin to one of my aunt's husband . . . . There's an image to inspire.

Scott Syfert has become a Mecklenburg hero. Go Scott!

Morning: Cousin Margaret Gist as Author; 2 Parasurfers; 1 California Condor

Maybe I should round the afternoon off with SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT to keep in the mood of the morning. First, Double-Cousin Margaret Adams Gist (double because the Scots believed in keeping the blood lines pure) as author of big articles in 1930 on the "South Fork Boys" and on the work of the women of her "Kings Mountain Daughters" association. She must have known that Robert Ewart (brother of Margaret Ewart Adams) and his son and sons-in-law made up almost a tenth of the 60-odd South Fork Boys at King's Mountain.

The to the beach in a fierce South Wind (unusual) and 2 reckless Parasurfers covering miles of the water from the Rock toward Cayucos and back.

Home. Scalini demanded out on the south battlement (where the oat crop is) so I propped the door open for her and went out to check her water supply.  Biggest damn buzz---NO--

A California Condor, checking out the Rock, swooping back--oh mighty wing span--gliding very high over the hill toward Cayucos and Big Sur.

Cousin Margaret Adams Gist in Charlotte Observer 5 Oct. 1930 on King's Mountain

What a pleasant surprise to see this article. Cousin Margaret had Wm Adams's powder horn used at King's Mountain and told the story of Margaret Ewart Adams's 12 mile ride through Tory territory to get to King's Mountain the day after the battle, to see if her husband and son were alive (not to mention her Ewart brother and nephew nephews-in-law.
I have a pdf. Now to figure how to quote some of it.

Ziah Packer and Hershel Parker 1 December 2014

Dalyon Packer and Hershel Parker 1 December 2014