07/16/20 - NNHS Newsletter - There's a Long, Long Trail | ||
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“You have heard the beat of the off-shore wind,
-
Rudyard Kipling |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
My mama
(the late Maxine Frix Buckley - John
Marshall HS - '25) (19
May 1908 - 15 Feb 1999) used
to sing this WWI era song to
my
sister
(Eleanor Buckley Nowitzky - '59 - of
NC)
and me when we were little girls. Sometimes she still
does.
BONUS - There's a Long Long Trail - clip from Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_Long_Long_Trail_A-Winding:
"There's a Long, Long Trail" is a popular song of
World War I. The lyrics were by
Stoddard King (1889-1933) and the music by
Alonzo "Zo" Elliott, both seniors at
Yale.[1]
It was published in London in 1914, but a December, 1913 copyright for
the music is claimed by Zo Elliott. In Elliott's own words to Marc Drogin shortly before his death in 1964, he created the music as an idle pursuit one day in his dorm room at Yale in 1913. King walked in, liked the music and suggested a first line. Elliott sang out the second, and so they went through the lyrics. And they performed it -- with trepidation -- before the fraternity that evening. The interview was published as an article in the New Haven Register and later reprinted in Yankee Magazine. It then appeared on page 103 of "The Best of Yankee Magazine" [ISBN 0-89909-079-6] In the interview he recalled the day and the odd circumstances that led to the creation of this historic song.[2] |
THIS WEEK'S
BIRTHDAYS:
Happy
Birthday today to
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Happy Birthday
tomorrow to
Barbara Hinson Ellis ('63)
AND
Stevie Gordon Watson ('66)
AND Marilyn
Payne Springfield ('66) of VA AND
Happy Birthday this week to: 18 - Bill Queensberry ('57) AND Mary Ellen Brewer ('57)! 19 -![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 20 - Harlan Hamby ('57) AND Alan Jecmenek of TX; 21 - ![]() ![]() 22 - Jerry Saunders ('57)
AND
23 - Newell Blayton ('57) AND Bettie Bracey Gosner ('57)! Many Happy
Returns,
One and All!
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THIS DAY IN 1970:
July 16, 1970 - Basketball player and coach Raimonds Miglinieks was born in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR.
July 16, 1970 - Director, producer, and screenwriter Apichatpong Weerasethakul (อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล) was born in Bangkok, Thailand.
“Often
the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but
while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.
Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the
scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By
becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our
own.”
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf(b. 06 Nov 1940) |
From Joan Lauterbach Krause ('60) of VA - 07/16/17:
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Thank you, Joan!
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“No matter where you go, there you are.” - Yogi Berra(12 May 1925 - 22 Sept 2015) |
BONUS TRAIL OF TEARS CROCHET PATTERN: |
Trail of
Tears Afghan![]() |
BONUS TRAIL KNIT PATTERN:
BONUS TRAIL RECIPES: |
Trail Recipes - "A collection of hiking recipes and backpacking food ideas. Find quick and easy meal recipes for your next adventure in the great outdoors!" |
FINALLY: |
From www.ajokeaday.com - 07/15/18:
Reporter: What made you go out on that
dangerous pond ice and risk your life to save a friend? Boy: I had to do it. He had my skates on. |
Y'all take good care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe! Love to all, Carol ============================================== |