King Tet Productions did a good job for me on converting an old spoken-voice cassette tape to a DVD. Nice label, too. Excellent communication/updates via email. Customer service was excellent and professional ~ I got to talk to a real human being on the phone. They turned my order around in one day and shipped it immediately. Eric Van der Wyk is the guy! Might need them again one day. They also do albums to DVDs, reel-to-reel, etcetera.
Here's contact info, for future reference:
King Tet Productions
10713 Cariuto Ct.
San Diego, CA 92124
eric (at) vanderwyck (dot-c... well, you get it).
Here are his business URLs:
http://CustomAudioCDs.com
http://RecordRescuers.com
http://ReelToReelToCD.com
http://78toCD.com
http://CustomDVDs.biz
(and several more)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Genealogy Tool: This site is the be-all, end-all for dates. It includes a very handy tool, a drop-down that lets you create a calendar for any year (a virtual perpetual calendar)!
Time and Date
http://www.timeanddate.com/
Time and Date
http://www.timeanddate.com/
Monday, February 27, 2012
Blog of a Sand Mountain Man
Autobiographical blog of Rayburn C. Hall, a resident of Jackson County, Alabama (on Sand Mountain):
http://rayburnchall.blogspot.com/
http://rayburnchall.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
2009 WMHS Article: Marcelle White Retired
Marcelle White retired from Crown Gardens and Archives in 2009. This article was written as a news release. This is just a test of the permanent link for that document...
Marcelle White Retires from CGA (2009)
Marcelle White Retires from CGA (2009)
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
People Search: Genealogy Tool
This People Search tool returned some great results, including alphabetized results from the Social Security Death Index. Here is the URL for reference...
People Search
http://www.faqs.org/people-search/
Example: searched for Caylor deaths in Georgia...
http://www.faqs.org/people-search/caylor-georgia/
People Search
http://www.faqs.org/people-search/
Example: searched for Caylor deaths in Georgia...
http://www.faqs.org/people-search/caylor-georgia/
Friday, February 3, 2012
Painting of Rock Building, 2007
Old Rock Building of Murray County High School, Chatsworth, Georgia
Donation of Painting, 2007
Early Renovation Efforts (prior to the fire and subsequent renovation)
In 2007, I did an acrylic painting of the Old Rock Building and donated it to Murray County High School, through the Rock Building Committee of the MCHS Alumni Association. I expressed hopes that it would eventually hang in the Old Rock Building after the renovation. The donation is noted in the minutes of the the Alumni Association, and in the newsletter entitled "2007 Highlights."
The roof was put on the Rock Building, but then lightning struck the building in 2009 (I believe that was the year), and a fire then gutted the building and destroyed the new roof. Sigh. However, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The insurance actually paid more for renovating the building than it would have had we decided to demolish the building. The building was subsequently renovated, being completed in 2010. It now houses the offices of the county school system.
Donation of Painting, 2007
Early Renovation Efforts (prior to the fire and subsequent renovation)
In 2007, I did an acrylic painting of the Old Rock Building and donated it to Murray County High School, through the Rock Building Committee of the MCHS Alumni Association. I expressed hopes that it would eventually hang in the Old Rock Building after the renovation. The donation is noted in the minutes of the the Alumni Association, and in the newsletter entitled "2007 Highlights."
The roof was put on the Rock Building, but then lightning struck the building in 2009 (I believe that was the year), and a fire then gutted the building and destroyed the new roof. Sigh. However, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The insurance actually paid more for renovating the building than it would have had we decided to demolish the building. The building was subsequently renovated, being completed in 2010. It now houses the offices of the county school system.
LaGrange College (of Alabama?!)
LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia, is well enough known ~ but LaGrange College of Alabama? That came as a surprise to me. I found it in search, but it also appears that I have an old bi-fold brochure that I picked up at some rest stop. It's near Cullman, Alabama, and is really pretty old, which surprises me in more ways than one. In the first place, I'd heard of an old Civil War era college in Cullman, but I didn't think it was called LaGrange. So... is this a different one altogether? It does appear that it is defunct, or at least relevant in a historical sense only.
Note: The following is from an old brochure and might be obsolete. As things go these days, the whole place might be obsolete or gone. If so, this post shall simply serve as a reminder that this place once existed.
Here's the info, such as it is:
Established 1830. Has a Civil War cemetery. Once served as a holy ground to the Chickasaw Nation. Very old markers, including an Abraham Ricks monument (crafted by an Italian sculpture in 1852, then costing $5,000). Replica of a pioneer village (log cabin, outbuildings, country store, barn, smokehouse, two-room dogtrot cabin/museum).
Annual Events:
May: Recall LaGrange. Weekend after Mother's Day.*
September: LaGrange Fall Festival.
November: Christmas in the Country. Weekend after Thanksgiving.
LaGrange College Site Park, Pioneer Village and Antebellum Cemetery
It was once called the "West Point of the South." (And then came the Civil War). The enrollment read like a Who's Who, it says. When the War came, people deserted the towns in droves, to join up. "On April 28, 1863, Colonel Florence M. Cornyn and his 'Destroying Angels' swept through the valley and in a blink of an eye, LaGrange, the college and its very life was gone."
Northwest Alabama: These facilities are located four miles south of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in Leighton, west of Interstate 65 on Hwy. 72/20 (an alternate or loop). The map shows a location on Alabama Highway 72, at the intersection of Hwy. 157. It is just east of Florence Muscle Shoals (hmmm, shouldn't that be "mussel"? Hey, I'm just readin' the brochure, and it is Alabama, after all). It is just west of Decatur and northwest of Cullman, Alabama. It is northeast of Tuscaloosa, off of Hwy. 43. Selected directions: 140 miles southwest of Chattanooga, 220 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, and 120 miles northwest of Birmingham, Alabama.
Restoration and preservation: memberships, donations.
LaGrange Living Historical Association, P.O. Box 306, Leighton, AL 35646
Phone: 205-446-9324 (or) 1-800-344-0783
Brochure says open daily year round. Welcome Center/Museum open Sundays 1-4 pm or by appointment.
*Recall LaGrange event, Fri., Sat., Sun. following Mother's Day, includes: Pioneer Village, Civil War Living History Daily Camp Life, First Impressions Cemetery Tour, Camp church service, 1860s period music, arts and crafts, ghost stories, blacksmith shop, period craft demonstrations, observatory for star gazers, antique engines and tractor display.
Note: The following is from an old brochure and might be obsolete. As things go these days, the whole place might be obsolete or gone. If so, this post shall simply serve as a reminder that this place once existed.
Here's the info, such as it is:
Established 1830. Has a Civil War cemetery. Once served as a holy ground to the Chickasaw Nation. Very old markers, including an Abraham Ricks monument (crafted by an Italian sculpture in 1852, then costing $5,000). Replica of a pioneer village (log cabin, outbuildings, country store, barn, smokehouse, two-room dogtrot cabin/museum).
Annual Events:
May: Recall LaGrange. Weekend after Mother's Day.*
September: LaGrange Fall Festival.
November: Christmas in the Country. Weekend after Thanksgiving.
LaGrange College Site Park, Pioneer Village and Antebellum Cemetery
It was once called the "West Point of the South." (And then came the Civil War). The enrollment read like a Who's Who, it says. When the War came, people deserted the towns in droves, to join up. "On April 28, 1863, Colonel Florence M. Cornyn and his 'Destroying Angels' swept through the valley and in a blink of an eye, LaGrange, the college and its very life was gone."
Northwest Alabama: These facilities are located four miles south of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in Leighton, west of Interstate 65 on Hwy. 72/20 (an alternate or loop). The map shows a location on Alabama Highway 72, at the intersection of Hwy. 157. It is just east of Florence Muscle Shoals (hmmm, shouldn't that be "mussel"? Hey, I'm just readin' the brochure, and it is Alabama, after all). It is just west of Decatur and northwest of Cullman, Alabama. It is northeast of Tuscaloosa, off of Hwy. 43. Selected directions: 140 miles southwest of Chattanooga, 220 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, and 120 miles northwest of Birmingham, Alabama.
Restoration and preservation: memberships, donations.
LaGrange Living Historical Association, P.O. Box 306, Leighton, AL 35646
Phone: 205-446-9324 (or) 1-800-344-0783
Brochure says open daily year round. Welcome Center/Museum open Sundays 1-4 pm or by appointment.
*Recall LaGrange event, Fri., Sat., Sun. following Mother's Day, includes: Pioneer Village, Civil War Living History Daily Camp Life, First Impressions Cemetery Tour, Camp church service, 1860s period music, arts and crafts, ghost stories, blacksmith shop, period craft demonstrations, observatory for star gazers, antique engines and tractor display.
Rock Building Update of 08-28-2006
Reference
August 28, 2006
Murray County High School, Chatsworth, Ga.
Rock building update letter from Murray County High School Alumni Association.
News at that time: Rock Building Committee begun, raising funds for restoration. Building has been placed on National Register of Historic Places. $69,000 has been raised. Murray County Board of Education has pledged $40,000. Rock Building Committee has applied for $40,000 grant (for a total of $149,000). First plan: new roof. Agreement signed with Dept. of Corrections for use of state-prison labor to put roof on. Bobby Mosteller and Carlton McDaniel, Co-Chairmen of RB Committee.
Saved for future reference for use in Rock Building pages on Southern Muse.
August 28, 2006
Murray County High School, Chatsworth, Ga.
Rock building update letter from Murray County High School Alumni Association.
News at that time: Rock Building Committee begun, raising funds for restoration. Building has been placed on National Register of Historic Places. $69,000 has been raised. Murray County Board of Education has pledged $40,000. Rock Building Committee has applied for $40,000 grant (for a total of $149,000). First plan: new roof. Agreement signed with Dept. of Corrections for use of state-prison labor to put roof on. Bobby Mosteller and Carlton McDaniel, Co-Chairmen of RB Committee.
Saved for future reference for use in Rock Building pages on Southern Muse.
Ashcan
This blog could be considered my ashcan, in a sense. Maybe not. Perhaps it would better be described as my scrap bin. It seems to be getting so darned difficult to find things on Blogger these days. And in my house, around my desk, I've collected such an overwhelming amount of stuff ~ scraps, bits of URLs, things I plan to post on Southern Muse, but haven't had time to do the HTML. I'm just gonna toss it on here. If it ever crashes... c'est la vie. I guess, then, I'll lose all my stuff. That might be a blessing. That's good. One less thing.
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