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01/31/14 06:16 PM

#676

John Landess

Actually, Rex, to set the record straight......

If you are going to be the site spell-checker, you will have to give up your position as Trivia Lord. There is no way you can have time for both!!!

01/31/14 07:58 PM

#677

Rex Booth

Nanook of the North aka: John Landess

Is it true Alaska is having a severe salmon shortage? Some nice and generous folks down in Mississippi are worried and want to know if you'd like some shark meat sent to you up there in Outter Slobovia to tide you over.

This made the news today folks!!!

Over 150 Frozen Sharks Found Along Gulf Coast as Winter Storm Hits Region

GULFPORT – Over 150 frozen sharks have surfaced on beaches across the gulf coast region due to the impact of Winter Storm Leon on Tuesday according to wildlife officials.

The largest area of concentration appears to be around Gulfport, Mississippi, which has seen at least 67 of the frozen animals. Wildlife officials say that the sharks, who migrate to this area during the winter, were caught off guard by the most severe winter storm in several decades.

“Like many of us, I suspect the sharks did not believe that the area would actually receive any winter weather,” Mississippi Department of Wildlife spokesperson Matt Shepherd tells us. “It is like a Shark-slushy out there. The animals all appear to be alive, so please do not approach any frozen sharks. They will probably thaw later in the week and swim back out into the gulf.”

The number of frozen sharks are expected to increase as the temperatures drop across the region. Officials hope poor driving conditions will reduce the number of onlookers who might otherwise approach the sharks.

“Sharks are remarkably adaptable, they have entered a hibernation like state while frozen,” Shepherd tells us. “They can come out of this state and will become incredibly irritated and possibly violent due to the extreme cold surrounding their body. We have already seen one fatality from an individual trying to take a selfie with a frozen shark. We hope to recover his head later this week.”

The winter storm is expected to clear out of the area tomorrow and area schools hope to reopen sometime in April.

http://www.rockcitytimes.com/150-frozen-sharks-gulf-coast-winter-storm-hits-region/

02/01/14 10:46 AM

#678

Don Ervin

This painting is by William Greenhaw well know Roswell Resident and was the father of Billy Greenhaw RHS class of 63. It was a gift to me from the art collection of T.L.Weathers.

02/01/14 01:05 PM

#679

Rex Booth

Very nice painting Don. Is this the Hondo close to Peter Hurd Country? Tommy Lee could always share the wealth next time he donates a painting... Like Falina.. Hint hint....

02/01/14 04:08 PM

#680

Don Ervin

It is Hondo country and Tommy could take you right to the sight of the painting.

02/01/14 07:31 PM

#681

Rex Booth

"Wild Hickory Nuts" ?

This is dedicated to all the 'nuts' at North, South, and to those kindred spirits who wound up at East. God bless...

02/02/14 04:43 PM

#682

Bill Leggett

BAD NEWS DON, I LOOKED UP THAT PAINTING AN IT IS LISTED AS stolen

02/03/14 10:35 AM

#683

Rex Booth

Bill L,

That's real bad news about Don's "p-a-i-n-i-n-g". That must have really 'pained' you to make this discovery.

The Spell Checker is found in the 'add response' "tool bar" on the bottom row. Click ABC with the green arrow.

How'm Ah doin'.... John L....? Ha!

02/03/14 02:25 PM

#684

Rex Booth

Denver Bronco fans...

This is dedicated to those who were disappointed with the way the Super Bowl turned out.

Dandy Don sings it... so well !!

02/03/14 05:31 PM

#685

Tommy Weathers

Bill L. If a painting has never been stolen it is not worth stealing.

02/03/14 05:43 PM

#686

Tommy Weathers

Will you look at what I got Linda for her birtday. I have wanted one as long as I can remember. This is the 2005

Thunderbird 50th anniversary edition. Color is cashmere. I love it. Linda has not drove it but I did take her for a

ride. OK girls her birthday is not until the 15th. I'll get her something she wants. How cool is that car!

02/03/14 06:35 PM

#687

Pat Sullins (Carpenter)

Nice of you to take Linda for a ride in HER car, Tommy. I'm going to be looking for her in it TOMORROW!! It is just too cool and she may not want something else after we all talk to her!!

02/03/14 11:27 PM

#688

Bill Leggett

Rex have some eye problems, on some medications for it.

Thanks for telling me to click

on the spelling icon,

where is it at

02/04/14 08:16 AM

#689

Don Ervin

Tommy I love your new car. Sorry to hear that you had to use Lindas' car as a trade in to get money for the down payment. If the the VW is still around maybe she could borrow it once in a while. If worse comes to worse maybe you could let her drive your pick up for a couple of hours.

02/04/14 10:21 AM

#690

Rex Booth

Bill L,

Ah knowz whut yo meens. Takin' medication like "ta-kill-ya" causes all sorts of vision problems and dizzy spells.

Turley said: First check to see if there's a worm in the bottom of the bottle.......

02/04/14 10:37 AM

#691

Billy Turley

If you drink the "Nector of the Godless" and eat the worm you will have visions. The are not real but they are real clear. Or so I have been told by Weathers.

02/04/14 11:28 AM

#692

Rex Booth

I'm having a vision... I see Linda driving her new T-Bird and taking Tommy for a ride.... locked in the trunk. Did her Daddy take her T-Bird away...?

Quick Snakebite, pass me the antidote !!

02/04/14 11:36 AM

#693

Billy Turley

Does that make him a trunk monkey??

02/04/14 11:48 AM

#694

Rex Booth

You talking about this one...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6WB5YJia8

02/04/14 12:38 PM

#695

John Allensworth

Tommy, will our fishing gear fit in there, looks kind of small, oh well, I'll bring my break down rods.

02/04/14 01:46 PM

#696

Tommy Weathers

Don the truck was the trade in. Do you think Linda would let go of her car?

John give me a few weeks to get over the new then we can put the fishing gear in. I remember when I was 13 years old going down to the ford house and asking Mr. Desmond if I could test drive the new 1955 T-bird he had on the show room floor. He told me to go get my dad and he would let him test drive it. Well it just didn't seem to be the same so I did not get to drive it. Years later I drove Howard Allens T-bird. Well after 58 years of wanting one I have it. Difference in little boys and big boys toys is the price.

02/04/14 06:02 PM

#697

Billy Turley

"You get a line and I'll get a pole and we'll go down to the crawdad hole" yee haw!!

02/04/14 06:34 PM

#698

Saundra Bennett (Whiteside)

Tommy, Linda's new T-Bird is a beauty! Do you think she could take all the girls for a ride this summer at the Gathering? By the way, if you have any extra paintings by Sidney Redfield....I would be glad to take one off your hands. He lived down the street from me on Pear Street.

02/05/14 07:44 AM

#699

Sandra Grizzle (Lee)

Saundra, I have one of Sidney Redfields sketches of an ox drawn cart dated 1940. He gave it to me back in the early 1980's. It now holds a place of honor over my fireplace. Checked all over and can not find any of his paintings for sale. When I come to the reunion, I will check to see what I can find.

02/05/14 10:09 AM

#700

Rex Booth

More on the 1937 & 1941 Roswell Floods & a Letter to Sidney Redfield

RWM

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BACK IN THE 'OLDEN" DAYS WHEN ROSWELL FLOODED

Photo courtesy of Historical Center for Southeast New Mexico, Photo No. 2788.

Camp Camino, during the flood of 1937, which is also mentioned in the following letter describing the flood of 1941. Camp Camino, a "tourist camp," service station and cafe on North Main near Spring River in Roswell, flooded in 1937 and again in 1941. The people in the photo are Roswellites viewing the results of the flood in late May or early June of 1937.

This letter, among the Redfield papers in the archives of the Historical Center for Southeast New Mexico, was written by a 17-year old Roswell girl in October 1941 to a friend in the military, Captain Sidney C. Redfield, 40 F. A., Camp Roberts, California. The letter describes the 1941 flood. The writer, still living, gave her consent to publish the letter.

The archived photo and the letter were provided to Roswell Web Magazine by Elvis E. Fleming, Archivist, HCSNM.

907 N. Penn Roswell, N.Mex. Oct. 2, 1941

Dear Sidney,

I guess you thought I wasn't going to write, but boy have I been busy. We even had to go to school on Saturday. We had a flood last Tues. and Wed. It wasn't so bad, but at any rate, we had to go to school on Sat.

Then this week, we had another flood. It came Mon. nite (sic), and was 18-1/2 inches deep in our front yard. It just lacked five inches of getting in our house. It got in Parsons house, and they had to get out. We called the police and they came and got them out. They had a couple of inches of mud in their house. Mr. Parson fell down twice, it didn't hurt him.

Mrs. Tucker and her renters had to move out also. A tractor came and took them out. Her house was worse than Parsons'. It got all over her house about 4" deep.

Our basement is full and we don't have gas. Bernice Santheson (D'Abadie) brought us an electric hot plate to use.

The fair was called off. Everybody was sure dissapointed (sic). E.A.P. came down last Fri., and they left Sun. afternoon, trying to beat the flood back. I got a letter from Ell J. She seems to like college ok. She said the pictures you sent her were good. Thanks a lot for the ones you sent to me, they were good and I sure appreciate it.

The footbridge on Penn and Kentucky went out. The one on Kentucky floated down here and landed in Harrold's lawn. (Them moved out too.) The one on Penn sunk. All the fenses (sic) in this block fell down. It is going to cost $85 to have a car fixed that was in the water. The water has been up 3 days and will probably be up at least 1 more.

Camp Camino has 4 inches in it, cabins, store and all. We will be going to school on Sat. the rest of our lives if this keeps on. Ray Levers was killed in a car wreck in the flood. So was the guy that owns the Capitan theater. The Yucca theater had 13 inches of water -- Oh! Me!

I am glad you like the Camp in Calif. I bet its really swell.

Last Sun. Sept. 28 I had a birthday. I got a new two piece wool dress and a crousuage (sic) of 6 rose buds. I also got my class ring (except it hasn't come in yet.) I was 17. I had Betty W. spend the night with me, and she ate breakfast with us. Bernice S. ate dinner with us, and Virginia Henry ate supper with us. Then came floods Mon. Ug!! (It rained all day Sun.)

You probably won't get this until late because I don't think there's a way for mail to come or go. But anyway, I'll send it.

Parsons are okey. Write when you can find time.

Nina Gene

P.S. Send some of that Calf. (sic) sun over here, we need it to dry things up around hear (sic).

Teacher - "How do you spell weather?"

Johnny -- "W-u-t-h-e-r."

Teacher -- "That's the worst spell of weather we have had in a long time."

!FLOODS!

grr!

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(Roswell floods have become just a memory. There have been no floods since construction of the Two Rivers Dam. RWM)

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Captain Joseph C. Lea: From Confederate Guerrilla to New Mexico Patriarch, the new book by Elvis E. Fleming, is available at the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico, 200 N. Lea Avenue, and also at Cobean's Stationery, 320 N. Richardson Avenue, Roswell. The book sells for $25, with over 260 pages plus 66 illustrations. It was published by Yucca Tree Press in Las Cruces, in cooperation with, and to benefit, the HSSNM.

The author, Fleming, is city historian, member of and archivist for Historical Society for New Mexico, as well as Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell professor of history, emeritus.

http://roswellwebmagazine.com/page.php?22

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