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Post by Rick on Apr 20, 2008 23:22:15 GMT -5
There's a XXX book about the Alamo by James Wakefield Burke called BLAZING DAWN. Yeah, it's pretty crummy. With whole paragraphs lifted verbatim from Tinkle and Lord.
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Post by Rick on Apr 20, 2008 23:13:07 GMT -5
I've got 'em all answered except for one, and the answer to it is proving elusive.
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Post by Rick on Aug 16, 2007 18:09:56 GMT -5
William Conly and AlamoJohnUK were there, too.
Nef, will you be getting a computer so you can join in?
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Post by Rick on Aug 15, 2007 20:02:21 GMT -5
How late did you guys keep chatting Tuesday night? I conked out between 9:30 and 10 p.m. Mountain Time.
I understand Wade came on afterward to report success in seeing BBT.
How long past midnight my time did you guys keep chatting?
Enjoyed it!!
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Post by Rick on Aug 8, 2007 13:27:11 GMT -5
Thanks to all those who participated in the third weekly chat. this had a bigger turnout then ever, with 9 members chiming in! I had a good time. Y'all are terrible, just terrible.
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Post by Rick on Sept 10, 2007 16:22:51 GMT -5
Three years already? How time flies when you're havin' fun . . . .
This plainly calls for a drink or two or 10, so to celebrate, tonight I'm gonna treat myself to some beer and enchiladas.
And drink a toast to Greg and Alamo Central!
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Post by Rick on May 7, 2007 17:06:41 GMT -5
Now that Time Warner Cable has fixed its glitch locally, I'm working on 'em!!
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Post by Rick on May 13, 2007 14:01:02 GMT -5
Greg, will you post the correct answers (so's I can see where I screwed up)?
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Post by Rick on Apr 29, 2007 16:50:59 GMT -5
Greg, will the contest contain a few easy questions (to give us all some hope), or are you gonna make 'em all nut-cuttin' tough? ;D ;D
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Post by Rick on Mar 2, 2007 21:52:26 GMT -5
I know its early for May Fifth 2007 but i just wanted to let ya'll know that i have acquired two prizes. My library had a book sale and i purchased a paperback copy of James A. Michener's Texas and a record of "Grerat Motion Picture Themes: 1960" witch includes Tomkin's Green Leaves of summer. The record also has songs from 15 other 1960 movies including a few westerns. Also for this contest their will be a first, second, and third prize. I will keep you all informed on any changing information as well as dates and other prize info. Last contest i posted it with out much planning and rushed through it rather quickly but this year i want to make sure that everyone knows about it. if anyone has anyone has any suggestions please post them and i will do what i can. Greg The questions in last year's contest pretty much totally stumped me -- and I thought I probably knew as much trivia on the subject as the next guy. Little did this mortal know . . . . . Are this year's questions gonna be any easier?
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Post by Rick on Oct 14, 2007 13:38:22 GMT -5
Ned, you need to visit the real thing, bud! Nothing like it!
Our 2006 trip was organized by the ABA, and (I think) planned so that we arrived at San Jacinto at about the same time the battle took place.
We first gathered at the site of the Texan camp, a big hunk of which was destroyed when the Houston Ship Channel was widened. There, we eyeballed the monument, which was constructed at the site of the Mexican barricade, with Santa Anna's camp located behind it, and Peggy's Lake behind that.
Tour guide Steve Hardin lined us up in the same marching formation the Texans used, yelled, "Trail arms!" and off we went, walking toward the monument, retracing the Texan line of march.
I fell out of line to shoot photos, walking backward through the grass and and making sure I stayed out of the reflecting pool. Gradually, the column of tourists/Texans fell out of formation and we ambled in a spread-out group toward the site of the barricade.
It still has a slight incline, though not to the degree that was there in 1836, and grass was high, though likewise not as high as it was back then.
I remember thinking I was walking on hallowed ground, the same feeling I got when walking part of the ground at Pickett's Charge.
We bypassed the monument (John Hinnant and I took pictures of each other at the marker where Houston was wounded), then boodled through the site of the camp and thus to Peggy's Lake.
It was just about dusk, very humid, I was sweating like a dog, and the skeeters were ravenous. At the edge of the lake, Hardin told us we were standing right where many Texans stood, firing at retreating Mexican soldiers trying to swim away.
We went back to the actual monument at just about dark. Unfortunately, it was closed for remodeling. Someday I want to go back, ride up to the top, and see the whole layout.
Plans call for the pool to be removed and the terrain (complete with the rise in the ground that concealed the Texan advance for so long) restored to 1836 appearances.
I shot photos of all this. Have I not posted them?
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Post by Rick on Oct 12, 2007 20:50:49 GMT -5
That's me on the left in the red baseball cap.
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Post by Rick on Mar 10, 2006 16:20:47 GMT -5
I know I've read that Peggy's Lake is gone, but according to guide Steve Hardin on the Alamo Battlefield Association's March 5 trip to San Jacinto, this is Peggy's Lake today. Texans stood on this shoreline, picking off Mexicans swimming/floundering away from the camera.
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Post by Rick on Jan 15, 2008 19:23:25 GMT -5
Hey, you're this site's unofficial photographer, Rick. Hope to see you there. Well, iffin' I'm the site's unofficial photographer, then Ned, you've gotta be its official photog. You've shot hundreds and hundreds more Alamo-related photos than I have. Thank god you shoot 'em and collect 'em. And post 'em. I hope to make it to Bexar for HHD 2008, but that'll depend on what my stockbroker and bank acount tell me.
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Post by Rick on Jan 13, 2008 21:10:37 GMT -5
I hope to make it. Got hotel reservations made if things (finances, weather, work schedule, etc.) work out.
If they don't, well . . . . you guys will have to take hellacious numbers of photos and post 'em like mad!
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Post by Rick on Feb 28, 2008 21:15:08 GMT -5
I've transferred these from the Birthday topic. Most of these were over there initially, but there are some new ones here. These six B&W's I messed with a bit, mostly darkening them to bring out the sky/clouds more. Going for the John Ford look. I darkened these two a bit as well to saturate the color These are new. Hope you like them. You should recognize this bluff. We think Linda and Jesus departed from right to left right about here. Site of Houston's camp. About where Richard Boone stood while reading the letter. The pond that Joan, Aissa and John Henry walked past. The camera position where Joan & Co. joined Smitty at the top. The dam and creek Smitty forded on his way to Houston.
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Post by Rick on Nov 2, 2007 22:19:58 GMT -5
Ned, are there any regularly scheduled re-enactments at Alamo Village? Alamo guys doing Alamo stuff. Or do the Alamo re-enactors mostly do their thing there on special occasions, like on or around March 6?
I have a few potential photo ideas in mind, but I'd need a couple dozen guys decked out in their Alamo duds and above all, with their weapons.
Just wondering . . . . .
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Post by Rick on Aug 13, 2007 18:26:17 GMT -5
Gotta go with digital rick! I'm in no hurry, particularly with a dozen or so rolls of film still in the fridge. A professional photographer friend of mine who switched to digital two years ago is currently on his third digital SLR Nikon body. Granted, it gets heavy use but he also says the top-of-the-line digital Nikon and Canon bodies aren't as strongly built as the old 35 mm film camera bodies he once used. I've noticed the same thing when I've taken my Canon film-camera lenses into stores and fitted them to the new Canon digital SLR camera bodies for testing. The cameras are much flimsier than my lenses. But I'm making inroads into digital, learning the terminology and such. Any digital camera I get likely will be a pea shooter.
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Post by Rick on Aug 12, 2007 20:46:46 GMT -5
Some great photos, Ned. Have you switched to digital or are you still shooting film, like me?
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Post by Rick on Apr 6, 2007 14:15:48 GMT -5
Greg, where did you stay in Bexar? And how did you like it?
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