BARBARA JEAN CORNETT'S MEMORIES ARCHIVES |
THINGS TO REMEMBER FROM OUR CHILDHOOD
bubbles blow out of little bird - ours from childhood - Hazel gave me purple thing as a gag - I made blond girl with clay -
Daddy had nine silver dollars he got at the Corner Grill - I sold two to Charles Lee to go to a Con Hunley concert - later two con men stole thousands of dollars of silver from Lee
Mother gave me a ruby ring for my birthday in the 40s, I lost the ruby stone - the other ring was from Miss Maud Brown - her or her grandmother's graduation ring - intitals MMB inside Mary Maud Brown
I gave this to Papa after coming back from Pensacola , it had a penny in it - he gave it back to me with $20 for graduation
telephone bracelet from Miss Maud Brown - pearl bracelet from Papa for Christmas after I teased him and asked what he was going to get me - he got all girl grandchildren bracelets from Journells - I bet I'm the only one who still has it watch from Mother - Mother's wedding rings - found another photo of Mother and Daddy
from Jean - 50s
Mother's jewelry from the 30s and Papa's coins from the store.
The pink rose Nancy picked for her parents that they wouldn't let me plant.
My herb garden, honeydew melons i planted seeds
JD took me to his Grandma Martins, these little dogs were on her mantle, she took them down and ask if I wanted them - they are old.
coins Papa took at the store
Home Missionaries used to come to the school, they gave me these little Bibles in about the second grade so they are old.
remember these - you tore the arm off by fighting like a cowboy with it.
And yes the Red Top Ale I remember well. On 11/23/10 6:39 PM, [email protected] wrote: I super glued the camera - remember these?
Mother said that Daddy had somebody make this for her, must have been 30s, in 20 years this will be a hundred years old. It was originally grey. If a high end design house had it it would go for thousands of dollars as folk art.
I remember being in the backyard with Uncle Ray when he built this little stool. That must have been in the 40s because I was really small. He built a bigger one but I don't know what happened to it. I'd hate for this to be thrown out but I wonder if any of the kids would even care.
I just used flowers from the last few years and made this.
I just used flowers from the last few years and made this.
I just used flowers from the last few years and made this.
I found some good free audio of classics, she might want to listen to something she may not have read before or she could always buy something to download but they're very expensive. If she had an mp3 player or an iphone she could download from the internet. Does she have an mp3? She didn't sound like she's aware of stuff like that. I just thought she might could hook to the internet with her laptop once she gets moved and listen right off the net?? On 11/15/10 4:53 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I asked her if she might like to listen to audio books since I know she's getting cabin fever from staying in the hospital but she said she couldn't operate a cd, she didn't know how. I'm looking online for an electronic audio device where she might could download from the internet. That might calm her down if she had something like that to do. Let me know how it goes when you talk with her. If I get a chance I'll ask John. I came across this site, your grandkids might like to hear this when they come to your house. My senior class visited Harris' house in Atlanta. http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/book/uncle-remus-by-joel-chandler-harris
Darrell On 11/15/10 12:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: She seems to be doing a lot better. The surgery may become necessary and if so it's the best way to get rid of a lot of the fungus....closest thing to zapping. Nancy IS very smart but all her intellect and all her knowledge couldn't help her when she was there on the bed begging for help and out of her head...not able to communicate with anybody. I think it was your prayers and the prayers of others that gave her a chance to fight this. In the condition she was in the doctors couldn't help her and I think she knows this now. I asked her yesterday if she wanted me to come back up and she said to wait for the surgery so I guess that's what I'll do. A call from you could really help her....she really needs to be encouraged to fight this thing and being all alone right now doesn't help. Since they moved her to another floor she doesn't have a full time setter so I'm sure she gets a little lonely. She sounded a little discouraged yesterday when I talked with her. Darrell On 11/15/10 8:47 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Darrell If I paid for a site at the place where you have your site, would you help me create a site like this one?
Do you use software to create webpages or do you just use html and that sort of thing? I might could learn how to do it myself.
Here is Breadloaf's website. Nancy could have gone to Ashville, NC. http://www.middlebury.edu/blse
Darrell Did Nancy leave her apartment and all of her money to her friends? It seems strange that she didn't leave any for family but I guess she considered those people to be her family since she had lived in Boston all of her adult life. I still have meat in the freezer where she sent me stuff from Omaha Steaks, the first filet mignon I ever had in my life. She called me after my birthday this year to tell me she didn't forget but that she was just having medical problems. I get upset everytime I think about her dying the way she did. I think she knew that something was going to happen and that's why she was so agitated that she wanted a pill to calm her down. but I think her heart was too weak to take a pill to relax your muscles, it also relaxed her heart musle. I know you don't want to, but I wish you would call Richard and ask him if you can borrow the Joines photos just long enough to copy them and put them on the computer. Tell him you'd give them all back. That way at least your kids and grandkids could have that stuff. You could also get the family tree that Patsy had. She let me borrow it and I kept it a long time but I didn't have a computer at the time or I would have copied everything. Richard is sweet and easy going and I think he would be nice about it and be nice to you. Loretta said that he helped Aunt Harriett when Charles and Tom Bryant and Stanley wouldn't. They don't have anything bad to say about him even tho he took up with that other woman right after Patsy died. The worse he could do would be to tell you no. But I don't think he would. I have a butter dish and other dishes that Aunt Lucy gave to Mother and Mother was so proud of them. I have a sugar bowl that always stayed in the china cabinet and that Mother bought in that store that was over where the Bank of Madisonville used to be in town. I think it was Hines and there was a photo of the store on one of the history websites but I don't know if I could find it now. Its at least 70 years old. I just wonder if the kids care anything about such things or if when we die they won't know or care about any of it. I wonder if Nancy saved any of her poems or other work from Breadloaf? I would love to read it, but she never talked about any of that and I think that she thought I was too dumb - why in the world would she ever think that! When she was here during holiday when I had Mother she brought beef stew and stuff to eat and she got in my kitchen and cooked. She talked about books to read and every book she named I had read and I was familiar with every writer she named. I have not read one book since Mother died. I had books everywhere in my house but took them to Habitat for Humanity to sell. Let me know if you think you might call Richard at some point. There is no reason for them to have the photos because I know Josh doesnt care about stuff, Aunt Harriett kept his kids and they have not been to see her one time. None of her grandkids have. Of course Christmas and Thanksgiving were sad for Mother which still makes me sad. I always bought her clothes but the only place I could shop was Walmart. She would get up and try them on the best she could and get in front of the mirror but her body was twisted and she couldn't hold up. Life is sad.
Darrell - What is happening now? Has Nancy been creamated and how will you get the urn? Who will bury the urn?
I wish this poem could be read at Nancy's memorial. Its by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Break, break, break, O well for the fisherman's boy, And the stately ships go on Break, break, break
This is the man that Tennyson wrote the poem about. Their friendship and circle of friends reminds me of Nancy and Breadloaf and her circle of friends. I wish Brian and Darren were more like Uncle Charlie in the way they would encourage the kids to learn and value the life of the mind. There is such a difference between getting a job and living this other lifestyle. Nancy was my hero. Based upon what I know and what her friends say, she had a good life. That is the life I would have lived if I could have. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hallam
Remember these songs? I think one thing that makes me so sad is that Nancy dying is like our own deaths in a way, looking back at these songs and remembering days that are over and gone, so long ago, and everything that happened in Grandma's house. Now Nancy is gone too. http://www.pcdon.com/JoStafford.html I remember Grandma's house to the point that when I wake up I think I'm looking out at Arps' house and I have done that everywhere I have ever lived. The truth is that Nancy went on to live another life so that I don't even know her favorite drinks or much else about her that her friends know. But at least I knew she was there. I guess she would like her ashes scattered at Breadloaf. I remember Mother got me a little dress with red apples all over it. I loved that dress and I don't remember having any others. Nancy saw it and liked it so Aunt Huretta took it and when they brought it back the apples were all faded. Once we had an Easter egg hunt and Nancy had a prize egg, she told me where it was because she had gotten a Roy Rogers puzzle for me to win. Aunt Huretta was the only one who ever got me a birthday cake. We'd go to the back door of the Red Bank bakery to pick it up. I'd wear Nancy's clothes when I'd stay down there in the summer and we'd go to see the Lookouts. Jean gave me a Lookout bracelet which I still have and might be worth something today. I went to Aunt Huretta and Uncle Charlie's graves and there were flowers. Since I hadn't put them up there I guess Nancy did. They were pink and faded while all the other graves had orange and thanksgiving flowers. I cried to think there is nobody to put flowers on their graves and its left to other family members to do it. Nancy picked pink roses to put on theirs and Mother's graves so I wish I could find a small rose that I could plant in their headstone because I hate artificial flowers. They wouldn't let me plant the rose that Nancy picked up there so if I got another it would have to be small enough to go in the vase on the stone.
I'm on my computer right now and I don't feel like talking. I sent you a lot of emails and sent some today. I'm not even thinking about my own site right now. Maybe I can talk to you later. ----- Original Message ----- Barbara I got your emails at dmac. I haven't checked this since all of Nancy emails have been coming to my dcornett3 address and all I've gotten done is answer those emails. How about if I call you at 6:00 tonight or whatever time is good for you tonight. I've just about typed out and we can look at the emails and talk about it at the same time. Let me know... Darrell
On 11/21/10 7:42 AM, [email protected] wrote: Darrell If I paid for a site at the place where you have your site, would you help me create a site like this one?
Before Patsy died she and richard brought me a chair that Aunt Harriette had gotten after Daddy died and we moved in with Grandma. She got a lot of Mother's stuff. It is hard as a rock and would have to be recovered, maybe with antique material, but maybe Jenna would want to keep it for the history. I also have that gray cat ash tray holder- do you remember it - Daddy had it made for Mother in the 30s. Mother told me who made it but I don't remember the name - its about two or three feet high and is made of wood. If you look in Architectural Digest, you can see stuff like it, if it ends up in a high end design house it will sell for thousands of dollars - but other wise not. Its considered folk art. That is why I wanted these things on the site so they could know the history and have the stories. I have little elephant game peices that were in our games when we were little. Black bears that Hazel got for me when we went to the Smokies and just lots of stuff like that. Jean also has the little case of cokes, she said she bought that but I ended up with the one that she gave to Grandma I guess. I just about kept everything except Mother threw away my dolls and other stuff that i would have kept. I would give anything to have those little silver horses that sat around on Grandma's tables. I wonder what ever happened to them. An ashtray of Papa's of a snake, and I wonder who got Grandma's cup and saucer collection. Jean told me today that Aunt Huretta had a little tea set she had as a child, sent to DC, she said she would remind you to be sure and get it. Poor Aunt Huretta wanted it up there with her and had kept it, Jean had to go to the basement when it arrived and roll Aunt Huretta down there in the wheel chair with Aunt Huretta giving her directions every step and Jean said she was just worn out, Nancy had gone to Burmuda. Now I hope Jenna will value it and maybe Brian's kids care about it later in life and know where it came from. That is another reason I want the website and all the photos on there. I'd like to get a list of cemetaries and stones of our family so we could make sure there are flowers and that they are kept. Some old stones fall over. I'm going to watch tv now and drink hot chocolate so talk to you later. ----- Original Message ----- You all need to talk! She needs to know who Shorty was....and Maud and a lot of stories only you can pass on. I remember a lot of that stuff and wouldn't want anything to happen to it...it needs to stay in the family. Darrell On 11/23/10 7:35 PM, [email protected] wrote: I just want the kids to know about this, they may want to keep stuff or they may just want to throw it in the trash. Shorty Giles gave us the dolls. Peggy has a kupie doll which is worth something, JD gave her. Miss Maud's ring might be worth something I don't know - collectors may pay for the little dogs - I don't know, it may be just sentimental value and the kids might not be sentimental. :) It doesn't matter after you're gone, but for me I love to keep old stuff, other people don't. I have two of Papa's chairs which are about a hundred years old, a little Toby Jug made in Japan that was granny's, made in Japan is supposed to be valuable, I have a crystal sugar bowl that was always in the China cabinet, Mother got it at that store that was over where the Bank of Madisonville used to be, by buckshot Lowry's store. There were pictures of the store on a history website, Overhill, but I don't know if I could find it now. Its only worth is sentimental and its old. I have a butter dish and other dishes Aunt Lucy gave to Mother which she cared a lot about. I have a cake plate that Daddy gave to Grandma. If Jenna or Brian don't want any of these things then Peggy will get them. I have the little cedar chest with all the family photos, Mother and Daddy's letters, a little chrocheted bonnet of Mother's when she was a baby. I remember Daddy carrying the cedar chests out of Corner Grill and putting them in the car. Mother told me once when I was up there taking care of her, if you want anything you had better get it or Peggy will get everything. I have an old hutch that Mabel Stalkup Presley gave to me and some of her dishes, so I'm just saying. ----- Original Message -----
Here is the place where famous libraries are - we can look at some libraries to figure out how to do Nancy's page. I don't know if I could put her library on there or not since she's not famous, but I might could. I showed her this site because I had a book list here at Library Thing. http://www.digital-rights.net/?p=2058 There is an app in the lower left corner where you might get a twitter thing to put on the family site as well as your high school class webpage. Nancy wanted to write a novel, she asked me about Southern speech and wanted me to listen and collect the way people talked. I sent her the link to a Southern dictionary, a collection of mountain speech. I wonder if its in her library. Anyway I wonder if you could ask Anne if she knows of any of Nancy's writings, if she kept a journal or her thesis papers etc. One other thing, Jean has all sorts of family items and she said that jenna was the only one she would give stuff to. If you can sometime in the future you should go to Alabama and photograph stuff and get family history from Jean which we could put on her page on the site. Also I wish you would show Jean the family site on your computer.
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