HAM RADIO NOTES FROM MULAT

Tell Mary Jo that if she knows any radio amateurs, they might be able to get "Health and Welfare" info from the stricken area after the hurricane. If it hits us, I will be off the air because I don't have reliable emergency power, plus, if it's like IVAN, I would be lucky to find out how people are. Plus, Helen will kil me ifI'm out in the radio room

And I decided not to buy a generator because, I have a small one and it's the devil to keep them running when you never use them. Maybe I should go crank it up. Otherwise, she will get more broad based reports than we will if we are really in it.

I use the NOAA web site www.noaa.gov to get the info on the hurricane without the commercial hysteriacal spin the news media adds. NOAA is the agency originating the info everybody else is spinning.

Right now we could get a Cat IV!!!!! But, the probability of it hitting anywhere from NO to St Marks is about the same. We just happen to be in the center of the band. Ivan showed us that a hurricane can side-step just before landfall, anyway.
(This from Jon Tinsley in Mulat)

NOT AGAIN! What were the chances of THIS?

Leon Hinote and Daughter at the Veteran's Memorial Fall 2004.

Heritage Contribution

RE: Junction 197: Maybe one day ... I'll reprint a hard copy but more likely a new collection. I dream of doing a 'follow up' book. Whatever happened to xyZ? If i can find the files for the stories below, I’ll email them to you. Check for name spellings. I know I blew a few of them.............. And places too. You would not believe the story of publishing that book and how all the errors were corrected three days before the manuscript was to go to press. And the editor's notebook computer with all the fixes was stolen along with their brand new SUV! aarrgghh. But, hurricanes are worse! Right?

I saw Leon last fall when down on Ivan duty. He was at the memorial park with his daughter. Poor Leon, he looked in bad shape and then every 15 minutes the speakers play "TAPS". He was there for a good 20 minutes and melted to tears every time Taps played. Dad used to love to go to Leon in his final years. And Leon would come to him at the end to cut his hair. He even goes to the mortuaries to be sure veterans have their hair cut well for their funeral.

I should have taken his picture there ... formally. I did capture him and his daughter in the background of another shot before I realized it was he who was there.

Update on Heritage Book II

This from Joyce Penton Schnoor:

This old redneck country girl lost her dictionary in Hurricane Ivan -- just what is a "blog?" I know what a "bog" is but some of these new computer terms puzzle me. HA.

We are about finished with the topical section of the book and it should be ready to be picked up by the publisher within a week or two. A long time ago you wrote that it would be OK to use several of your stories in the Chumuckla Book in Volume II.

You let us use your story "Old Soldiers Never Die..They Just Go For Another Haircut," page 135 Volume I. Reading it again made me think about Leon Hinote -- he had to have open heart surgery several months ago and his sister is staying with him to help take care of him. (Rudy Hinote's wife, Joan told me that he is getting so that he can not cut hair now.)

The following stories would be easy for me to retype and list you as the author. I think they could be submitted as they are written. If you have plans to reprint your book then I will understand if you do not want the stories in Volume II of the heritage Book.

These are the stories which we would like to use if you don't mind.

1. The Veteran Comes Home (note: I was sorry to hear about Mrs. Burgess passing away)
2. "Doc" Retires
3. Skeetersonian Museum of Chumuckla
4. Santa Rosa Has the Best Oysters
5. Etiquette at the City Cafe
6. Politics in the City Cafe
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Vic permits any use Joyce wants for publication from his book or chapters.
This is the first I knew of Mrs Burgess' death, or Leon's heart surgery.

Sandy Hollow. These are Betty Lowry's grandkids. See Betty's note below.

Betty Lowry and Sandy Hollow

Betty sent this note to Vic. Good Memories eh?

Hope you havcn't forgotten this ole Faithful Bunch of Lowry's that go to breakfast every morning at the BP store in Brownsdale, the Hub of our Big settlement. I sure do miss seeing the Mayor of Chumuckla and tell me the stories of the different station or port where he and My Brother Ruthord ran into each other. Also when my brother was in in New Port, R.I.

You Know We have the bragging rights to the Largest Gully in Florida. Sandy Hollow was and still holds a special place in our hearts, Henry, Dora and LeTonya grewup in the Hollow. Sandy Hollow was their playgrounds, they could imagine, mountians to Climb. from the mouth to the ending where sand had washed the slopes down came to the foot of the hollow it was like a beach where the sand had washed over small brush and weaved around the larger trees the sand...

We adored those hill sides where the clay and sand were all different colors. The surface sand was bleached white by the Sun. when it would come light showers it would wash the smallest grains of sand away and leave small rocks. These rocks would stay in place and leaves little mound sand under them rock that would resemble small cities with streets winding around the pebbles. I am an adult and still see it when I am wondering around along the the dirt roads and observe God at work in Nature. .. Betty Lowry .. bug-betty@juno.com

Mom (Myrtle Campbell - red vest) and Mary Beth (center) invited President Bush and his mother Barbara to come visit them last month. This was at Pensacola Jr. College. WEARTV.com has a video of the event on its April 18 listings. You can view it on your computer. Mom and MaryBeth are toward the last 1/6 of the program and you can move the slider on the media player over to their discussion without playing the whole event.

Alex Campbell, here with Mr. Otto Schwarz who survived the sinking of USS Houston (usshouston.org) in the Battle of the Java Sea in 1942 and 3 1/2 years as a POW of the Japanese.

Karen and Alex. Alex is 14 and ready for Spring in NJ. Enough snow already. Nice -- but, enough!

CHUMUCKLA NOW

My old alma mater Pensacola Jr. College hosted this event. It has one of the foremost ETV stations in America Their coverage will be available later. For now, the local ABC affiliate's coverage is available from the link below. (Pensacola's population is probably a little less that all of Sussex County, NJ). On stage are my Mom, Myrtle Campbell (next to Barbara Bush) and my niece, Mary Beth Roberts (next to POTUS). Much of the family is in the audience. Congressman Jeff Miller (R) Chumuckla is from my hometown ... www.chumuckla.net .

Thanks to Joyce Penton Schnoor (Joyce now lives in a barn since their home was destoyed by Ivan ... yet she has internet in her barn!) for sending me the WEAR Link!

. ................... ps: for those who for some reason or other don't like Pres. Bush, you can also find the footage of your fellow protestors on this site! Ain't America great!


WEAR TV3 This website will offer you a chance to stream the President's speech on your computer. Mom and MB are toward the end of the piece .. you can move the slider over to the last part. Mom and Mary Beth met for a half hour with GWB before the speech and the family met with the Bushes afterward and took photos. Hope to have some photos soon.

Karen, Alex and Vic with Oreo - Christmas 2004