Quote from Forum Archives on October 28, 2003, 9:49 am

Posted by: bandaddie <bandaddie@...>

David,

Congradulations, and praise God for guiding you.

I the past year, i have been through 3 such auditions, no rehursal, no sheet
music, just listening and watching guiarist's fret board hands, and they
lead to some of the most wonderful adventures of my life, and my life is
nothing, if not 50 years of adventure.

Partlow! Wow!. That is the home of my wife's paternal family. Her
grandfather, Thomas Humprhies Sr, is buried at Waller's Church, there in
central Virginia, the family's home (they are a founding family of the
church) since they came from Scotland (just after the first Jamestown
landing.) I do not recall what was the name of their plantation before the
War Between The States, but it covered a great deal of Spotsylvania Co. They
were officers in Gen Jeb Stuart's cavalry, and as such lost everything. They
moved to Richmond and regained their fortune in the railroad and retail. In
the Valentine Museum in Richmond, hangs a painting of her G-Gfather, in his
dress uniform of the Richmond Blues.

Jill asked, "Please say hello to Granddaddy Tom." He was quite a horseman
and a musician himself. I recall how he played mouth harp at a Waller Church
reunion in 1976. I was there on a date with a pretty, cultured, Christian,
and oh so sweet, southern girl, (think Donna Douglas, ELLIE MAE CLAMPET) who
was such a contrast to the perverse life and profession which was mine at
the time. I'd just ended a job and was trying to become reaclimated to real
America, before being re-assigned. Though i was not saved at the time, the
folks there, plus my then girlfriend and her family, did much to point me in
the right direction. Oh, to be sure, they made certain we were married in
the oldest Baptist church in Richmond.

I am hoping to get up there with my kids to teach them family history and
give Jill a homecoming. Her family is almost gone now, she being the only
surviving member of that family line. I told her of your email. She is
stoked too.

Tell Greg I saw FIVE CARD STUD often when I was assigned to DC. Incredible
stuff. I think one time was at Eskomo Nell's in Arlington, but not certain.
Was another time somewhere on the main strip of Mannassas? How about the
Capon Bridge Festival? That was an awful long time ago in the time clock of
my universe. I know I saw Chubby Checkers at E. Nell's.

God bless you and your new gig

Çetin Basaran
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"vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit"

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