Fast Frank was my Œguardian angel¹. This time of year, however, some folks are caught up in various things and just don¹t get back to their e-mails. I am a...
Val & Jill I am, in my advanced years, merely half-fast now ;) Frank ... From: Valerie Protopapas To: mosbysrangers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 10,...
Dear List, Just approved David's membership. Sorry for the delay. The group used to be open membership, but we had to change this because spammers now...
Hi Kathryn, No problem with me, I love the site and never had any problems with it, sorry to suggest otherwise. As for me I'm too busy with the UDC and CofC to...
Union Cavalry commander William Boyd was the man who entered Mosby and Pauline's bedroom in the home of James Hathaway to search for the Confederate raider....
Typical of this period. I don't know of any specific cause of a feud between Boyd and Mosby, but there doesn't have to be. It appears that William Boyd was...
Interestingly enough, Mosby even after he backed Grant in 1872 continued to resist Northern appointees at the local level; he was a NATIONAL, not a ...
... Take a few minutes and sign this petition to help our friends in Texas. Please go to the web sight listed below and sign the petition to allow the Midland,...
Well, Frank signed it. Dixie, besides being a fine tune, is played at all West Point graduations and at many US events. Of course it's not about racisim....
PPS-I'm a Texan by birth and lived there most of my life. Midland-Lee's sports teams (if I remember correctly) are know as the Rebels, not the Panthers as...
Admittedly, most of my relatives were probably involved in the New York draft riots, but I signed the petition and I think that anyone who wishes to bury the...
Val, As usual, your replies are very informative and interesting. I haven't explored Mosby's political philosophy fully, myself. At times he seems somewhat...
Sometimes what looks like a nice simple song praising a beautiful land and it's people, is really a black-faced mistrial song making fun of escaped slaves...
Uh oh, Mike. You've gone and done it now. :-) _____ From: mosbysrangers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mosbysrangers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Big Mike...
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Dave, I have not heard of any such proceedings, but since one of Mosby¹s biographers said that real estate became a very large part of his practice post-war,...
Dixie was written before the war. It was a Œminstrel song¹, that is, a song to be sung either by Negroes or by white men in black face. Up until the fourth...
"To find 'racist' or objectionable something that was completely acceptable in it's time is foolish and wrong.", Valerie Protopapas But that's the point ......
I would certainly agree if the song made direct references to this or any group¹s inferiority. But the words to ŒDixie¹ are rather silly the speak of...
The hate groups are there already ... it's why the song was pulled off the play-list ... they were in the stands singing it at the black and Hispanic fans...
So you are going to let people like that DICTATE what is and what is not acceptable? Excuse me?? What happens when they begin to sing Amazing Grace or...
The ones who 'dictate' what the people of Midland will hear from their high school band, should be the people of Midland and no one else. If they are presented...
Thanks Val, my thoughts exactly, thank you for taking the time to express them. Jill ... Dixie was written before the war. It was a ‘minstrel song’, that...
I love the reaction! Do you know that the Mosby website hasn't had any activity for the last week until this? :) I'm glad to see everyone is still alive. ...
You miss my point ... the 'cure' should be for the locals to determine what it offensive to them, by being educated about the song, then voting on what is best...
