tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327410656662695142024-03-13T12:10:20.996-04:00Southern Campaign in NCA collection of people, places and things to do with the American Revolution and the Southern Campaign in North CarolinaDonnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-82376679670799491592015-02-19T01:42:00.000-05:002015-02-19T01:48:45.467-05:00OVTA has lost a giant. Masters and Heroes...
It is a Sad day for the OVTA. Blair Keller of Virginia has passed away. He was active in the OVTA from its beginning. We think his funeral will be Friday. I will not be able to go so I will honor him here.
I enjoyed talking with him. He was a charter member of the organization. In our last conversation, he told me he was born in a cabin and spent his early childhoodDonnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-92162940729724780692015-02-17T12:30:00.003-05:002015-02-17T15:30:48.053-05:00Gino Vannelli Collected, Charlotte History and vinyl
Gino Vannelli Collected. Gino comments on the value of the vinyl vintage technology in this link. It is a fashion with 20 years olds. I hear him...
Ok, you must wonder what I have done this morning. I am collecting too. I found drafts of posts that did not appear in my blog from the past. Some are still great. I want to put them out there. I published them. So you Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-19910137651289454522015-02-17T10:31:00.001-05:002015-02-17T10:31:35.985-05:00John Atkins
John Atkins of the County of Fayette and state of Virginia that I was in the
revolutionary war with him I think in the year 1779 we were stationed at Osburns Mill in Surry County State of North Carolina. he was under the command of captain David Harrison and I was under the command of Captain David Humphries I do not now recollect whether there was a regiment or what number of men or companys Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-36619319238185603352015-02-16T20:55:00.001-05:002015-02-16T23:04:17.678-05:00Quick!!! A virtual revolution toward good, real, heart-bending music...
Quick!!! Stevie Wonder is on TV at nine tonight! It's a total resurgence of great music and somehow I feel it is all connected to Gino Vannelli. Gino's big break came when Stevie asked him to fill in when Chaka Khan was unable to tour. It is a virtual revolution of good, real, heart bending music.
How does this connect to NC and the revolution? I'll find out.
My Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-66018535346249394342015-02-15T17:31:00.001-05:002015-02-16T01:31:21.212-05:00Revolutionary Significance, Gino Vannelli and SNL
I have been remiss for years now -discouraged by the handling of the bill in Congress. However, I hear an opportunity exists for it to rebound. Also, out of the blue, unexpectedly, encouragement appeared for me to continue writing here in 2015 from a fan on twitter. Finally, today on Meet The Press Dana Carvey pronounced he was "keeping his powder dry" about SNL s 40th Anniversary Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com3Americas (null)36.237995 -80.860629tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-73602726329739929342011-04-17T13:35:00.000-04:002011-04-17T13:35:36.212-04:00It's good to be KingI'm working hard on a new website for the Yadkin Valley Craft Guild. It's almost ready. Calling all artists in the YVCG, I need images! You can join us if you live in one of the 18 counties in the Yadkin River Watershed.
And, of course, I am so looking forward to the Royal Wedding at the end of the month. It's a positive thing. I'm taking off from Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-28191781850046363372010-12-08T19:31:00.000-05:002010-12-08T19:31:07.751-05:00Goodbye, ElizabethThere are no words I can add to that. I am so sorry to see her go so fast. She did not deserve all the terrible circumstances she found herself in. My love to the children.Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-20669647363462121172010-11-22T09:48:00.002-05:002010-11-22T09:59:02.371-05:00Thank-YOU!! Congressman Spratt!!!I am pleased to report the bill establishing the Carolina Revolutionary Road National Heritage Area has been introduced in this session of Congress and we are off and running again!! Yay!Why didn't I think to just call him up during this lame duck session. But, thank-you Blog readers, Facebook friends and others for delivering this dispatch. I think we can carry on from here.Meanwhile, I had an Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-54572821987867871322010-11-17T11:10:00.005-05:002010-11-17T12:34:42.989-05:00The Carolina Revolutionary Road National Heritage Area.I can't believe I haven't talked to you since July. I really thought life would be a little empty as I am taking only one graduate course and still job-hunting. But, a lot has happened.The Yadkin Valley Craft Guild has determined its relationship with Surry Community College and as in my experience with automotive interior concepts, it is "refined" until the innovation part of the idea is Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-47928242435850036842010-07-17T16:12:00.003-04:002010-07-17T16:17:08.714-04:00Okay, he's back. He played the fiddle on the Giant's Causeway as predicted. Sigh. But I am having a good time with my sister in law in Lynchburg. I have facebook friends searching for my son's ancestor's grave in Gaston County. The BBC is coming to North Carolina at least for one day it appears.Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-20975366019282945332010-07-04T20:18:00.003-04:002010-07-04T21:51:27.999-04:00The BBC called my house!!It's true. Some weeks ago the British Broadcasting Company called my house! We thought we were on our way to Northern Ireland for July. That is a very long story I'll let you in on at a later date. For now, just so you will know, ********** RG is on his way to Northern Ireland tonight***********with other OVTA members to bring the story of the AmericanDonnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-55129671176481297282010-06-07T09:36:00.004-04:002010-06-07T10:44:46.127-04:00And the Beat Goes On.....National Trails Day was a WONDERFUL day in Elkin on Saturday, June 5th. Duke Energy donated land which we were able to get paved as a road-side pull off, with Stimulus funds if I am not mistaken, so that tourists have "someplace to go" to see the Surry Muster Ground and the wayside exhibit on the trailhead of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail.Check out this video from one of our Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-36798711163016897882010-04-11T16:53:00.006-04:002010-04-24T13:09:06.144-04:00More River NewsComedy: Jeanne Robertson "Don't go rafting without a Baptist in the boat." More fun in the River with funny and famous, a former Miss North Carolina and our Friend Jeanne Robertson.I have to say I like these too. Jeanne opens the show in Burlington and at another she takes a vacation in Canada. Lastly, this trip to the grocery store can't be beat.Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-10326429401007704092010-04-06T21:43:00.003-04:002010-04-11T16:53:24.116-04:00Tour de YadkinEverywhere up and down the Yadkin River, people are beginning to take about our Revolutionary story including people I don't even know yet. That is a good thing. There was a meeting in Elkin recently and the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail was discussed as an INCREDIBLE asset for Elkin by the invited speaker and as far as I know no one from our area was even there.We are bound to theDonnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-90876538395471692232010-04-04T21:30:00.003-04:002010-04-04T22:52:28.391-04:00EasterThe Moravians had a beautiful service today. I heard this on the news. I was hoping there was a video for you, but I'm still looking. They have been in the Winston-Salem area since the mid-1700s. This sunrise Easter service has been presented and attended by people from all over the world.We had a lovely day today too. We had a church-wide Breakfast, Sunday School was packed and with new Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-88888489105358165642010-03-26T13:20:00.005-04:002010-03-26T13:39:40.630-04:00Ft. Dobbs- plowed ground for the seeds of RevolutionI found this great video series for you from Ft. Dobbs. It discusses the French and Indian War which ended in 1763. At this time all soldiers and militia were English citizens. This war though gave the King of England an excuse to raise taxes in the 1760s-1770s. Corruption by officials in the colonies led to rebellion, particularly in Alamance. More people moved to the backcountry to escape the Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-1240147729565712782010-03-25T16:26:00.003-04:002010-03-26T09:21:51.835-04:00Pineapple ExpressSxSW keeps coming up in the techsphere. I'm doing three papers. One on social networking, one on project management and one on 2nd generation biofuels. Oh, and the grants!!So today, on my facebook came this link to a filmmaker, David Gordon Green who went to the NC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem being interviewed at South by Southwest. He made George Washington and he made Pineapple Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-60804411144611498762010-03-24T00:54:00.003-04:002010-03-24T01:42:13.855-04:00Which Joseph is it?OVTA will meet in Marion for the annual meeting on Mar. 27th. There the Pepsi Refresh Idea will likely be hacked to death. I am disturbed by this old thinking. Too much loyalty to Coke. To little willingness to communicate on-line about this unlike all the on-line communication about a book to be published...sigh. I don't know where I will get funding for October at this point and many Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-62766154798884441882010-03-22T21:32:00.003-04:002010-03-22T21:40:45.819-04:00Back to homework...Two cool sites. Podcasts of readings from Thomas Jefferson's writing. and Stamp Act info from the western counties about Brunswick and the coast.I'm keyed up about my Pepsi Refresh Project for OVTA . Please go vote to help us get to the roll over position. I've had trouble engaging the troops. It's not my war or I don't believe it can be done. Sigh. Same old Same old. But look! at the Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-40864925221825905392010-03-21T20:36:00.003-04:002010-03-21T21:21:06.795-04:00Feed Me Seymour!We spent the afternoon at the Senior Play, Little Shop of Horrors. Those kids have lungs! It's good to have a great script and then even better when they sing on key. AND that plant!!! Great job on that. Hey, and that is Steve Martin being the dentist in the movie!! I had forgotten that. He is coming to Merlefest the last weekend in April. I'm getting his autograph. Well, its a goal. I've Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-36631590590416885722010-03-18T00:02:00.004-04:002010-03-18T00:07:54.529-04:00Jaron Lanier refers to Thomas JeffersonI am looking for another paper to write for school. We have been discussing ethical and legal issues given the internet, creative commons etc. I found this talk by Jaron Lanier, the inventor of the term Virtual Reality. He is talking above my head almost. But he is concerned about people not being paid for what they create in their brain - artists and musicians, etc. He discusses rhetoric ( Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-23473488327402077942010-03-12T22:36:00.001-05:002010-03-12T22:40:34.113-05:00GO (NC)STATE!!! I found this cool new experiment which starts April 1st - its an online reenactment of the American Revolution in Real time. It will last eight years from 1775 - 1783. http://patriotcast.wordpress.com/Sign me up!!Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-61140220488031993472010-03-11T13:50:00.004-05:002010-03-11T14:38:05.239-05:00On vacation from my other favorite school, East Carolina! www.refresheverything.com/ovtaDid you know Sandra Bullock went to ECU? She's an oscar winner now!! for that wonderful "The Blind Side" movie based on a TRUE story.Which leads to this observation.....Zach Galifiankis, local boy made good, went to NCSU. He will be an Oscar winner someday and don't you think he would make a GREAT OVERMOUNTAINDonnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-63331604438177575642010-03-11T13:22:00.003-05:002010-03-11T13:34:01.751-05:00the Battle beginsSpring break is slipping away. I'm exhausted promoting my Pepsi request. But, I'm remembering how much I like to write to you. The ACC tournament is on TV. It is definately a Greensboro kind of month.2010 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Site Broadcast Information TV: RAYCOM (XM 190/191)GO WOLFPACK!! Know this athlete from Cary won an award from the Sons of the American Revolution.OH! Pepsi Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332741065666269514.post-76309689580789536062010-03-09T12:38:00.003-05:002010-03-09T12:45:29.803-05:00I received this beautiful background for my twitter account by winning a prize last year. Somehow I have it pasted in my edit post area and it pops up everytime I write. I'm leaving it today to see what happens. I like the flowers. They remind me of the High Point Furniture Market coming up.I am reminded that the annual BIG reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse is happening this week Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12832266351888982906noreply@blogger.com0