Thursday, January 7, 2010
Cream Calendar The Nashville Retrospect's 1953 Hank Williams Obituary
Posted by D Patrick Rodgers on Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:58 PM
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I saw an older gentleman(60+) reading retrospect at starbagel two days ago and had a serious case of the warm fuzzies. He had on a dark green blazer with gold buttons. Missed connection time.
It's a cool paper and a really great idea - especially for an industry town who diss's it's roots so much of the time. It should be a mainstay in hotel rooms in this town.
Still swingin' in Twangtown!
I have picked up a copy several X and am getting into the 'old time' stuff. Hope that I have a copy of the one that had the 1953 blizzard story in it (or can pull it up here). I was in HS in a small town at that time and lived 20+ miles from the high school so was bussed. School let out early that day, but we still did not get home until around 6 PM.
Due to a steep hill which we normally traveled, we had to go around through the next town [in the adjoining county] and when we got home, (my 3 siblings & I were the last people to get home); my dad was about to exit our yard all bundled up on his way to walk to the nearest neighbor who had a phone- 1/2 mi down the road! to try to learn what had happened to his children. I am the 10th of 12 and at that time there were only 4 of us still at home and our dad was already 60 yrs old, but he was ready to hitch up the horses & wagon to come looking for his 'kids'. It gives me a warm feeling today to remember that. I was reminded of it several X while watching the TV show. "Little House" , many years later when Charles Ingalls did that very thing to find school children (his & others) who had gotten caught at school in a snow storm.
I graduated in 1957 and came to Nashville to go to Business school and have been here since, except for a 12 yr period when my spouse and I moved around the country.
I hope that you continue this paper for a long time... It is full of Good (& some bad- Hank Williams' death!) memories of the times.
Keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Anne Archer
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