Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Aug 15, 2007 20:11:28 GMT -5
Inspired -- or perhaps shamed -- by Mustang's recent decorating of his new den with several pieces of Alamo memorabilia, I've decided to do likewise.
He has several framed photographs on the walls, many of them of the Waynamo in all its glory and from several different angles.
I have some framed photos and posters that I've just arranged in my den, and I've taken several photos of same. When I get the film back I'll post some of them here.
One is a still from Price of Freedom, another a poster of Feely's diorama currently in the Alamo Gift Shop, and a few more.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Feb 19, 2008 15:02:46 GMT -5
Got it. Ich verstehe.
I'll transfer those photos from the Happy Birthday topic, plus post a few others.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Feb 18, 2008 18:52:09 GMT -5
Rick, can you please repost this stuff over on the Brackettville thread under TRAVEL? I fear it's just going to get lost here. Forgive my dumbness, but is there already a "Brackettville" thread under TRAVEL? Or would I have to create one there?
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Dec 17, 2007 16:11:53 GMT -5
You found the dam! So, just where is that river crossing spot where the Mexican cavalry ride by? If you mean that great big bluff, it's on private property east of Alamo Village. I have a shot of it somewhere . . . .
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Dec 16, 2007 15:46:26 GMT -5
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Aug 8, 2007 13:23:24 GMT -5
Zulu Dawn is now on my netflix list... Zulu Dawn is a good flick, though Burt Lancaster's accent comes and goes. Just finished reading a book about Rorke's Drift -- entitled, oddly enough, Rorke's Drift -- written by Adrian Greaves. Learned a lot about that battle and its aftermath, particularly how brutal the killing was on both sides. Neither the British nor the Zulus hesitated to kill each other's wounded, the former poking through the piled-up Zulu casualties afterward and finishing off via bayonet any still alive. "Easing their suffering," the book said.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Feb 16, 2008 23:49:26 GMT -5
Now those are cool-looking outfits.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Jan 30, 2008 22:11:27 GMT -5
As a youngster, I had this song on a 45 record called SONS OF OLD AUNT DINAH. I think it was from the film, THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE. Anyway, I haven't seen it anywhere, since. Here are the lyrics, as best as I can remember them. SONS OF OLD AUNT DINAH We are sons of Old Aunt Dinah ANd we go where we've a mind to And right now, we're inclined to Sit down and rest a spell, But when we're tired of eatin' We will give the Yanks a beatin' And they'll all start retreatin' When they hear the Rebel Yell. We are sons of Old Aunt Dinah And we go where we've a mind to And right now, we're inclined to Go out and have some fun. Oh we licked the Yanks at Shiloh, Oh my ,oh my, oh my-o! Yes we licked the Yanks at Shiloh Just to see how they would run. Is there any historical signifacence to this tune, or what it merely written for the film? Is that the song Morgan Woodward sings in the train car when Andrews and his raiders are on their way south to steal the General? I've gotta play my DVD of The Great Locomotive Chase and see. My interest in Civil War music is mainly in brass band music of the period, triggered by a performance of the Americus Brass Band I attended years ago. I picked up a cassette tape that night of that group's music, and have added to it over the years. Lots of brass groups around, playing band music of the period, many of them tooting original horns and using original band manuals/arrangements. Some string groups also play Civil War music these days. One of them did the music during the USO-type show in the Confederate camp in Gods and Generals. They played Bonnie Blue Flag.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Oct 23, 2007 17:56:36 GMT -5
That's a good shot of the Forrest statue.
There's a new biography out on Forrest, though I've not yet read it. Has anybody out there read it?
Also, good ol' Nate remains a target of the PC police. Here in El Paso, there's a Nathan Bedford Forrest Road near Fort Bliss, and a while back there were some letters to the editor whining about having a road named after a slaveholder, KKK founder, ad nauseam.
One of these days the same folks'll likely go after Robert E. Lee Road here, and not be satisfied 'til they've removed one of the E's from his last name.
I wear my Confederate flag belt buckle on occasion (recent jury duty comes to mind) just to piss people off, and also have a Confederate flag decal I'd love to put on my truck.
The old Rebel in me emerges more often as I get older.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Nov 12, 2007 22:14:47 GMT -5
A good book about Civil War re-enacting -- where I first encountered the word "farb" -- is Confederates in the Attic.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Jun 1, 2007 20:37:48 GMT -5
Thanks, Rick. I really enjoy 'then and now' photos. So do I, Ned. I'm even starting to collect books that use the then-and-now format. Picked up two recently at Barnes & Noble: Gettysburg Battlefield: The Definitive Battlefield History, written by David Eicher. ISBN: 0-8118-2868-9. Excellent book that follows in William Frassanito's footsteps. The Now photos are in color. Texas Then & Now, by photographer Richard Reynolds. ISBN: 1-56579-551-2. Mostly cityscapes, but the cover has two Alamo shots on it, and inside are a set of slick then-and-now panoramic shots of Alamo Plaza.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Mar 12, 2007 18:55:56 GMT -5
The western face of Little Round Top today.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Apr 29, 2007 16:39:57 GMT -5
Hard to pick a favorite, but I put Gettysburg, Gods and Generals and Glory (a lotta G's, for some reason) right up there together. Always thought two Disney flicks: Johnny Shiloh and The Great Locomotive Chase, were good CW yarns told well.
I hope Ron Maxwell does release an extended DC of G & G, though I doubt The Last Full Measure ever makes it to the screen.
A pity.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Mar 25, 2008 21:16:42 GMT -5
Blood on the Moon, about the Lincoln assassination.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Mar 7, 2008 18:02:18 GMT -5
I'm reading Edward Larson's A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidental Campaign.
Larson explains how the Founding Fathers/authors of the Constitution originally meant for the Electoral College to operate -- and how it's been bastardized by the creation of political parties and partisan politics.
You can thank Jefferson and Hamilton for the latter.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Feb 22, 2008 16:59:24 GMT -5
Right now I'm reading Bill Bryson's bio of Shakespeare. Found it at the library, as I did the next book, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne, by Ronald Davis.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Nov 2, 2007 22:34:58 GMT -5
I hope Antietam's near Sharpsburg. If it ain't, I'm in a lotta trouble. ;D
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Oct 23, 2007 18:37:28 GMT -5
I've got to read Crow Killer one of these days. I've read Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man -- the other book that Jeremiah Johnson was based on -- and it's a good read.
Right now I'm reading Laura Ingraham's Shut Up and Sing.
Recently picked up three Civil War books that likely are next on my to-do list: Stephen W. Sears' Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, and Edward Steers' Blood on the Moon.
I liked Sears' book on Antietam, Landscape Turned Red.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Aug 11, 2007 20:39:33 GMT -5
Thomas Fleming's Washington's Secret War, about all the crap George had to put up with while camped at Valley Forge.
After that, it's The Commodore, in the Jack Aubrey series.
|
|
Rick
Junior Member
Posts: 170
|
Post by Rick on Jul 13, 2007 21:54:32 GMT -5
Michael Blake's Hollywood and the O.K. Corral: Portrayals of the Gunfight and Wyatt Earp.
After that will be A. Wilson Greene's Whatever You Resolve to Be: Essays on Stonewall Jackson, followed by Adrian Greaves' Rorke's Drift.
|
|