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             TO THE HORROR OF WAKING FAIRBANKSENS A ROAD CREW WENT A LITTLE TO DEEP WHILE DIGGING A HOLE AND THE DEVIL HAS FOUNDS HIS WAY TO THE SURFACE. WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT IS UNKNOW. CAMERA WENT DEAD AND NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO CONTACT ANYONE IN FAIRBANKS. MORE NEWS AT TEN .

UP DATE HE BROUGHT HIS DRAGON FRIEND WITH HIM!! OH THE HORROR!! WHAT IS NEXT!!

PICTURE COURTESY OF THE FAIRBANKS NEWS MINER AND ALL DRAWING WERE DONE BY HILLYBILLYWARLORD.

         THIS  OSAGE PROVERB HAS BEEN TOLD FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, MY MOTHER TOLD IT TO ME.

                   THE SUN WAS VERY BRIGHT AND FELT SO WARM AGAINEST HIS DARK SKIN AS HE SET ON A FLAT ROCK NEXT TO THE BROOK THAT BUBBLED PAST HIS VILLAGE. DARKWING WAS JUST 35 YRS INTO HIS LIFE AS A GREAT OSAGE WARRIOR, HE HAD BEEN ON SO MANY HUNTING AND RAIDING PARTY'S HE HAD LOST COUNT. HIS BROTHER WHO HAD MET THE WARRIOR SPIRIT LAST WINTER WAS A LOSS THAT HAD TAKEN A LOT OUT OF HIM,YOU SEE THEY WERE BORN ON THE SAME DAY JUST HOURS APART. THIS LEFT HIM FELLING ALONE AND VERY EMPTY.

        AS HE SAT THERE WORKING HIS HAND BACK AND FORTH THROUGH THE COOL WATER HE COULD FEEL THE WOUNDS IN HIS BACK CUT DEEP PAIN THROUGH HIS BODY,THE ONE THAT TRULY HURT MORE THEN ALL THE REST WAS THE ONE JUST ABOVE HIS HEART THERE WAS STILL A PIECE OF ARROW HEAD LEFT JUST INCHES FROM THE HEART. THE PAIN AT TIMES WAS OVER WHELMING.  HE WOULD PLACE HIS FACE INTO THE WATER AND SCREAM AS LOUD AS HE COULD SO NONE OF THE TRIBE COULD HEAR, IT WAS NOT SOMETHING A OSAGE WARRIOR WOULD NEVER DO LET ANYONE KNOW HOW MUCH PAIN HE WAS IN.

        HE HAD ALWAYS CAME HOME WITH FOOD FOR HIS FAMILY AND ALWAYS HAD ENOUGH FOR MOST OF THE TRIBE AS WELL. BUT THINGS WERE CHANGING MOUNTING HIS HORSE,JUMPING ONTO A DEER OR BUFFALO TO DRIVE HIS KNIFE INTO THE BEAST FOR THAT DEATH THRUST HAD BECOME ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE. IN HIS MIND HE WAS BECOMING NO USE TO HIS WIFE,CHILDREN AND THE TRIBE.

        LIKE SO MANY OF THE TRIBES WHEN A MAN OR WOMAN BECAME OF NO USE THE TRIBE WOULD SEND THE WOUNDED,THE OLD ONES, OUT TO WONDER IN THE WILDERNESS TO MEET THEIR SPIRIT GUIDE INTO THE NEXT WORLD. BUT THE OSAGE WHO CONSIDERED THEM SELVES HUMAN DIDN'T FOLLOW THOSE BELIEFS. HE WISHED THEY DID, HE  FELT HE WAS NOW USELESS. HE COULD NO LONGER DO THE THNGS HE NEEDED TO DO TO HOLD HIS TRIBE, HIS FAMILY TOGETHER.

          THE KNIFE CAUGHT THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN AND FOR JUST AMOMENT THE FACE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT HE HAD EVER KNOWN. SHE PLACED HER HAND GENTLE ON HIS CHEEK, LOWERED HER HEAD AND PLACED A SOFT WARM KISS ON HIS FOREHEAD. SETTING NEXT TO HIM, BLUE CLOUD WHO WAS TAKEN AS HIS WIFE 18 YEARS AGO FOR 20 HORSES,FIVE BUFFALO PELTS AND A TEPE WITH A BUFFALO FLOOR, THE MOST ANY WARRIOR HAD EVER GIVEN FOR A WOMAN, BUT SHE WAS WORTH EVERY BET AND MORE.

          HE LAID HIS HEAD IN HER LAP TURNING HIS FACE INTO THE SOFTNESS OF DEER HIDE AND THE WARMTH OF HER LOVE. THE TEARS WERE HARD TO HOLD BACK AS WELL AS THE SHAME HE WAS FEELING. BLUE CLOUD VOISE WAS SOFT AS SHE SPOKE OF THEIR LIFE TOGETHER, HOW HE HAD MADE HER FLY ABOVE ALL THE OTHER WOMEN IN THE TRIBE.THE SON AND DAUGHTER THEY HAD MADE TOGETHER AND HOW BEAUTIFUL WHITE SMOKE HAD BECOME,DARK EYES  WAS SO MUCH LIKE HIS FATHER SO BIG AND STRONGE AND A HEART OF GOLD.

                                                                                                                                                                                       

           THERE HAD BEEN A COUPLE OF RAIDS FROM OTHER TRIBES IN THE VALLEY AND HE HAD FOUGHT THEM OFF AS IF HE WERE HIS SPIRIT ANIMAL THE NIGHT OWL. HE WAS ALWAYS THERE TO TAKE CARE OF WHAT EVER HAD TO BE DONE. BLUE CLOUD KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG THAT HE WASN'T THE SAME. SHE FEARED THAT HE WAS GOING TO GIVE UP BECAUSE HE FELT HE COULDN'T TAKE CARE OF THEM ANYMORE. SHE PLACED HER HAND ON THE WOUND ABOVE HIS HEART, LOOKED DEEPLY INTO HIS EYES A TEAR FELL ONTO HIS CHEEK, SOFTLY SHE SPOKE."IF THE GREAT SPIRIT HAD WANTED YOU TO LEAVE US HE WOULD HAVE SENT THE ARROW INTO YOUR HEART, ALL THIS PAIN YOU ARE FEELING IS JUST A REMINDER THAT YOU ARE ALIVE, YOU HAVE TO MUCH TO DO TO MUCH TO GIVE. HAVE YOU HEARD YOUR SPIRIT GUIDE CALL YOU NAME?  WHEN IT CALLS I TO WILL HEAR IT. WHEN IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO GO I WILL WALK WITH YOU AS I HAVE ALWAYS DONE. YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE."

              LIFE IS FULL OF PAIN, THE BODY HURTS,THE SOUL HURTS, SOMETIMES IT IS UNBEARABLE, SO EASY TO GAVE UP. BUT THEN WHEN WE DO TAKE THAT WALK TO EARLY THE PAIN THAT IS LEFT WILL TOUCH EVERYONE WHO HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND A VERY LONG TIME. AND WHEN THEY ARE CALLED BY THE GREAT SPIRIT TO TAKE THAT WALK IN TO THE WILDERNESS THEY WILL CARRY WITH THEM NOT ONLY THEIR PAIN BUT YOURS AS WELL.

             

............I would like to thank the NICT Japan for allowing Me to copy this Photo's............. This is just one of the reasons I stay here in the Great state of Alaska,one of the main reasons. I am truly blessed that I live far enough out of town that I can watch Gods light show just out My front door. But there is one thing I can't do very well is take photo's I leave that to People like Pam(TravelTweety) Who are good at it. So I was over joyed when I found this web site Salmon Aurora web cam, now I can send These pictures all over the world to Family and Friends.

               I hope Everyone enjoys these pic's.

          LUCY CAME A LONG A YEAR AFTER MY LITTLE MEME PASSED. I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER HAVE ANOTHER DOG BECAUSE AFTER HAVING MEME FOR 15 YEARS IT BROKE MY HEART WHEN SHE DIED. BUT INTO MY LIFE SHE CAME AND WHAT A JOY SHE HAS BEEN.SHE MAKES ME LAUGH WITH HER BUG EYES AND FUNNY LITTLE THINGS SHE DOES. THERE ISN'T A PERSON OR HUMAN SHE DOESN'T LOVE. SHE HAS A FRIEND THAT LIVES WITH US AND THAT IS NIKKI MY HUSBANDS BIG! DOG WHO WEIGHT IN AT 165 WHERE LUCY WEIGHT 10 POUNDS IT IS A RIOT TO WATCH THEM PLAY,NIKKI IS SO GENTAL WITH HER. THEY ARE BOTH GOOD DOG'S. HOPE YOU ENJOY THE PIC'S

           NIKKI WAS A PRIZE WORTH FINDING,WE GOT HER AT THE ANIMAL SHELTER, THERE SAT THIS BIG PUPPY WITH THE SADEST EYES I HAD EVER SEEN. ILOOKED AT HER AND TOLD MY HUSBAND SHE'S GOING TO BE A BIG ONE. BUT SHE HAD A WAY ABOUT HER SHE SUCKED YOU IN AND THAT WAS IT. I HAVE NEVER SEEN HER GET MAD OR MEAN SHE LOVES EVERYONE JUST ASK PAM. I THINK SHE WOULD HAVE MADE A WONDERFUL SERVICE DOG. THE LOVE SHE GIVES IS NEVER ENDING WHAT A GOOD DOG SHE IS. WE ARE TRULY BLESS TO HAVE THE TWO OF THEM,THEY MAKE US LAUGH AND WHEN THEY PLAY TOGETHER WATCH OUT! IT'S A RIOT.

        MY MOTHER WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T SAY MUCH BUT WHEN SHE DID IT WAS PROFOUND AND MADE YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WERE ABOUT TO DO. THE WAY SHE RAISED ME WOULD RAISE SOME EYE BROWS NOW A DAYS.

        SHE NEVER TOLD ME NO, IF I SAID I WAS GOING TO GO OUT DRINKING AND DRIVING SHE WOULD SET ME DOWN, FEED ME ALL THE SCENAIRO'S WHICH WERE AT TIMES MANY, TELL ME TO THINK ON IT AND THEN TELL HER WHAT I HAD DECIDED TO DO. AND I CAN TELL YOU 99.99% OF THE TIME I DIDN'T DO WHAT EVER IT WAS I WAS GOING TO DO. THE ONE THING I DID DO AND IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE BIRTH OF MY SON'S WON'T HAVE AND THAT WAS MARRYING MY X-HUSBAND. I DIDN'T HAVE TO MARRY HIM, I WASN'T PREGNANT,JUST YOUNG LIVING IN A SMALL TOWN AND HE WAS SO HANDSOME IN HIS AIR FORCE SUIT. MOM GAVE ME THE "SCENAIRO'S" BUT I WAS BLIND AND STUPID. SHE TOLD ME YEARS LATER THAT SHE HAD WISHED SHE HAD BROKE HER RULE AND SAID NO. BUT AS I SAID I HAVE MY SON'S AND THEY WERE MY JOY AND MADE LIFE WORTH LIVING EVEN WITH ALL THE BEATINGS, BROKEN BONES AND THE HORROR I LIVED THROUGH.

          I WAS GOING THROUGH SOME THINGS MY BROTHER SENT ME THAT BELONG TO MY MOTHER. PHOTO'S, JEWELERY AND A LARGE STACK OF HER WRITINGS. SHE WROTE ON ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING SHE COULD FIND. ON THE BACK OF A VERY OLD CORNFLAKE BOX TOP SHE WROTE THIS...........................................

          PERFECTION IS LIKE A MIRAGE, NO MATTER HOW FAR YOU WALK OR RUN TO REACH IT YOU NEVER WILL.

           WISDOM HAS ALWAYS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH AGE, BUT I HAVE FOUND WISDOM ONLY COMES IF YOU WALK ON UNEVEN GROUND AND YOU KNOW YOUR GOING TO TRIP AND SOME TIMES EVEN FALL, YOU REMEMBER TO PICK YOUR SELF UP, LOOK BACK AND NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES.

            THEN ONE DAY YOU FIND AGE HAS TAKEN IT'S TOLL, YOU LAY THERE REALIZE PERFECTION AND WISDOM IS ONLY    ONE LAST BREATH AWAY.

 

                                     WRITEN BY ALTA HORTON

             I MISS HER TERRIBLE AND WISH SHE WAS HERE TO GIVE ME "THE SCENAIRO." I KNOW THAT SHE IS WITH HER LORD JESUS CHRIST WALKING IN THE GARDEN SHE ALWAYS DREAMED OF.

       IT WAS COOL AND HAD RAINED THE DAY WE ARRIVED IN ANCHORAGE. IT HAD BEEN ALMOST TWO MONTHS AND I WAS A VERY TIRED KID. MOM AND DAD HAD BEEN HELPING AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY COULD ALONG THE WAY. AND SPENDING TIME IN A TENT IS FUN FOR A FEW DAYS BUT WE HAD LIVED IN ONE EVER SENSE WE HAD LEFT KODIAK.  MOM IN HER KIND AND LOVING WAY HAD MADE ME UNDERSTAND JUST HOW BLESSED WE WERE TO EVEN HAVE A TENT AND I KNEW THAT, BUT I WAS A KID AND AS MOST CHILDREN I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST NOT FAIR  AS MOST PEOPLE WE GROW UP AND FIND THAT EVEN THE SMALLEST OF THINGS CAN BE PRICELESS. WHAT I LIVED THROUGH ON KODIAK AND WHAT LAY BEFORE ME FROM HOMER TO ANCHORAGE WAS A LESSON WELL LEARNED.

       AT THE TIME IT MADE NO SENSE TO ME THAT THE FRIENDS I MADE SEEM TO NOT SEE THE SADNESS THAT WAS WRITEN ON THE FACES OF THE OLDER FOLK. ALL THEY KNEW WAS THE NEWS PEOPLE WERE THERE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IT SEEMED AND THAT WE HAD LIVED THROUGH SOMETHING WE SHOULDN'T HAVE AS MOM AND DAD WOULD SAY EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE,THAT GOD HAD TAKEN CARE OF US AND THE MOMS AND DADS,THE KIDS THAT I WAS HAVING SO MUCH FUN PLAYING WITH. 

        THE GROUND HAD OPENED UP AND THINGS THAT I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGHT HAD FALLEN AWAY CARS,BUILDINGS ONE OF THE KIDS THAT I PLAYED WITH SAID" OUR HOUSE JUST WENT AWAY AND SO DID THE MILK COW, AND ALL THE CHICKENS AND DADDYS TRUCK." THE ONLY THINGS HE HAD LEFT WAS A BAT AND HIS DOG. I WANTED TO BE MAD A GOD FOR ALL THIS SADNESS BUT MOM TOLD ME THAT THIS WAS A NEW BEGINING,THAT IT WOULD BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER,MAKE THEM STRONGER AND TEACH THE CHILDREN THAT ONE DAY WE WOULD LOOK BACK AND BE THANKFUL FOR THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE AND THE PEOPLE THAT HAD BECOME APART OF OUR LIVES. AND THAT GOD NEVER TURNS HIS BACK ON ANY OF HIS CHILDREN.

          THAT SUMMER WE SPEND IN ANCHORAGE MOM AND DAD DOING WHAT THEY DO AND ME MAKING FRIENDS WAS ONE OF THE BEST TIMES I HAD EVER SPENT LIVING IN A TENT HAVING POTLACHES AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY THE TREES A LONG THE COAST WERE WHITE AS THEY WERE IN THE WINTER. AND WITH ALL THE SADNESS THAT WAS AROUND ME, THAT LOVE AND KINDNESS WAS IN FULL BLOOM

          WHEN WE WERE ABLE AND THE ROADS WERE OPEN WE HEADED FOR FAIRBANKS WHERE OUR TRAILER WAS WANTING.THE CHURCH MY DAD WAS TO DO WORK ON,THE PASTOR AND THE PEOPLE WELCOMED US LIKE THEY HAD KNOW US FOR YEARS. BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY.  

            A FEW YEARS BACK I WAS INVITED TO A WEDDING OF A FRIEND THAT WAS HELT AT THE LITTLE CHURCH (PIONEER PARK) ALASKALAND. IT WAS A HOOT! WE WERE ASK TO WARE CARHARTS OF SOME KIND. MY HUSBAND WORE HIS COVERALLS AND I WORE BIB'S (BLACK).........BUT WHAT THE BRIDE AND GROOM WORE WAS PRICELESS,

             THE BRIDE HAD A PAIR OF WHITE PAINTERS CARHARTS BIBS THAT HAD BEEN CUT DOWN THE LEGS AND WERE SOWN TOGETHER WITH A FINE WHITE CHIFFON AND LACE MAKING A NICE FLARE AT THE BOTTOM,THE TOP HAD BEEN CUT A LITTLE LOW WERE THE POCKETS WERE AND THEN FILLED IN WITH THE SAME CHIFFON AND LACES ALONG WITH SLEEVES THAT TAPERED DOWN TO THE WRIST. HER VAIL WAS A PAIR OF FUR COVRED EAR MUFFS WITH A LACE TRAIN THAT CAME TO THE MIDDLE OF THE BACK, AND A PAIR OF WHITE BOOTS.BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!

 

             THE GROOM WARE A CARHART BLACK BIBS WITH A WHITE DRESS SHIRT,BOW TIE,AND BLACK BOOTS...........THE RING WAS THE BIGGIST HUNK OF ALASKA GOLD I HAVE EVERY SEEN.

                                           IT WAS A WONERFUL WEDDING AND A LOT OF FUN.

    IN 1995 MY HUSBAND WORKED FOR A FUEL TRANSPORT COMPANY,BROOKS FUEL AT THE TIME USED DC 4AND DC 7C AIR CRAFT TO TRANSPORT FUEL AND OTHER THINGS TO AND FROM VILLAGES. THESE TO SAY THE LEAST WERE OLD PLANES AND YOU WOULD THINK HAD SEEN THEIR FINALE DAYS. BUT NO!! THESE PLANES COULD AND STILL DO FLY AND DO A VERY FINE JOB.

    EVERY YEAR OLD MAN BROOKS WOULD TAKE HIS EMPLOYEES ON A WEEKEND TRIP TO A PLACE CALLED CURLERS BAR IT IS NORTH EAST OF FAIRBANKS AROUND 80 MILES. THE ONLY WAY TO GET THERE IS BY PLANE. THAT MORNING WE STARTED UNLOADED OUR TRUCK AS I LOOKED AROUND I WONDER WHEN THE PLANE THAT WAS GOING TO TAKE US TO THIS PLACE OF "WONDER AND WELL WHAT THEY SAID WAS "UNBELIEVABLE BEAUTY,....BUT GETTING THERE THATS "THE RUB." I LOOKED AT MY SWEETIE AND SAID WHERES THE"PLANE?" HE GOT THIS LOOK ON HIS FACE "OOOOH DAM I FORGOT SHE HATES TO FLY!!" HE SHEEPISHLY POINTED AT THIS PLANE THAT HAD WELL, SEEN BETTER DAYS.

    AFTER THEY HAD FINISHED LOADING THE"PLANE" WITH THINGS LIKE FOOD,WATER,SLEEPING BAGS, CHARCOAL,4 ATV'S, GUNS,.......WELL YOU GET THE IDEA. IT WAS TIME TO LOAD THE"DOG'S AND HUMAN'S." THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO SAY THIS AAAAAH! AS MY FEET STEPPED INTO THE "PLANE" I GOT A LITTLE DIZZY,SICK,BUT IWAS GOING TO DO THIS!! THIS WAS A TRUE ALASKA CAMPING TRIP AND I WAS GOING TO BE PART OF IT!!!

     I LOOKED AROUND TO FIND A PLACE TO SET DOWN,HMMMM THERE WERE NO SETS JUST FLOOR, CAMPIMG STUFF, AND FOUR ATV'S OH AND 12 FUEL BLADDER'S IN THE FRONT OF THE "PLANE" I TOOK A WALK UP TO THE FRONT OF THE "PLANE" TO TAKE A LOOK AT WERE THE PILOT SETS THERE WAS A PILOTS SET AND AND A LAWN CHAIR... I TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED MY LOVING HUSBAND AND SAID" YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND!!!! ABOUT THAT TIME THE DOOR CLOSED AT THE SAME TIME THE ENGINES STARTED TO KICK OVER AND I SAY LIGHTLY. THE "PLANE BEGAN TO SHAKE AND SHIMMY. ONE OF THE LADY'S THAT WAS WITH US SAID"GRAB A ATV" AS SHE THROUGH HER LEG OVER THE ONE IN FRONT OF THE ONE THAT WAS MY.

     WE WERE FINELY IN THE AIR,"I THINK" THE FLIGHT TOOKS US OVER AN AREA THAT HAD BEEN BURNING SENSE THE BEGINING OF THE SUMMER THE SMOKE COVERED THE GROUND SO BAD YOU COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING. WE WENT UP AND DOWN,UP AND DOWN, WELL WHAT I HAD EATEN THAT MORNING WAS NO LONGER WITH ME. FINELY ONE OF THE GUYS CAME BACK AFTER TALKING TO THE PILOT AND TOLD US WE WERE ABOUT TO LAND!! MY HEART WAS HAPPY BUT THEN IT WASN'T. WE FLEW AROUND THE BAR ALL I SAW WAS THIS STRIP OF WHAT LOOKED LIKE GRAVEL MAYBE A 1/4 OF A MILE OR LESS LONG. I COULD SEE THE TEEHEEHEE ON EVERYONES FACES. MY HUSBAND JUST LOOKED AT THE FLOOR.

     THE"PLANE" BEGAN TO SHAKE AND SHIMMY AS HE PULLED BACK ON THE STICK,I LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW AND WATCHED AS THE TIPS OF TREES WERE CHOPPED OFF BY THE TIPS OF THE WINGS THEN WITHOUT ANY WARNING,BANG!!!!!!!! WE HIT THE RUNWAY THE "PLANE" SLID FROM SIDE TO SIDE THE ENGINES SCREAMED AND THEN IT WAS SILENT. I FINELY REALIZED PEOPLE WERE RUNNING AROUND LAUGHING AND UNLOAEDED THE "PLANE" I WALKED OVER TO THE DOOR AND LOOKED OUT IT WAS EVERYTHING THAT EVERYONE SAID IT WOULD BE. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL THE BAR SETS BETWEEN A FORK OF THE CHENA RIVER,THERE ARE TWO BUILDING THAT WERE PUT TOGETHER WITH ROOMS THAT HAD BUNK BEDS A LARGE LIVIVNG AREA AND A FULL KITCHEN,OH AND A OUT HOUSE WITH ALL THE AMENITIES,LOL.

     THAT NIGHT AFTER EVERYONE HAD GONE TO BED I TOOK A WALK OUTSIDE THE ONLY THING I COULD HEAR WAS THE RIVER AND NOTHING ELSE IT WAS WONDERFUL. MY HUSBAND AND I THE NEXT MORNING TOOK A ATV AND WENT FOR A RIDE.... WHAT I SAW BROUGHT NEW MEANING TO THE PLANE RIDE IN TO CURLERS, THERE WERE SEVERAL WREAKED PLANES LAYING AROUND,OKAY,OKAY,ANYWAY IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST ENJOYABLE TIMES I HAVE EVER SPENT ANYWHERE OR ANYTIME IN MY LIFE.

       NOW THE TRIP OUT... EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WAS LOADED,THE DOOR CLOSED,I SAT HAPPY AND CONTENT.

       

        THEN THE ENGINES BEGAN TO TURN OVER,WELL ONE OF THEM DID. THE OTHER NEEDED TO BE FEATHERED,THEY TRIED AND TRIED TO NO AVAIL,THE OLD MAN "YELLED GET A CAN!!!!!!!" HMMM I WONDER? I ASKED MY HUSBAND "WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT?"AS I LOOKES OUT THE WINDOW I SAW SOMEONE TAKE WHAT LOOKED LIKE A FIRE ESTINGUISHER,HE STARTED TO SPRAYED THE ENGINE WITH SOME KIND OF SUBSTANCE,WHICH I FOUND OUT A SECOND LATER WHAT "IT" WAS..... BECAUSE WHEN THE ENGINE WAS FEATHER ONCE MORE FLAMES   LOTS OF FLAMES CAME OUT OF THE ENGINE, ( GASOLINE).  THEN WITH OUT ANYMORE COMPLAINING IT KICKED OVER.YEAA!!! THE PLANE TURNED TOWARD THE POINT WE HAD COME IN AT...I'M THINKING THIS IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT. THE ENGINES BEGAN TO ROAR,LOUDER AND LOUDER,THE PLANE WAS PULLING HARD AGAINIST THE BRAKES HARDER AND HARDED. I ASK MY HUBBY WHY IS HE DOING THAT??? (I DON'T FLY) HE SAYS"HOLD ON"......THEN WITH OUT WARNING THE "PLANE" JUMPED FORWARDS SO HARD I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BE SLAMMED AGAINST THE BACK OF THE "PLANE" AS I LAY THERE I SEE THIS HEAD POP OUT OF A HOLE IN THE COCKPIT FLOOR,THIS GUY CLIMBS UP CLOSES THE DOOR, I LOOKED AT "YOU KNOW WHO,"HE SHEEPISHLY SAID,"HE HAD TO PULL THE CHOCKS".

         THE RIDE BACK WAS SOME WHAT UNEVENTFUL.I WAS JUST HAPPY I HAD EATEN SOMETHING BEFORE WE HAD LEFT, BECAUSE SOMETHING COMING BACK UP IS BETTER THEN NOTHING COMING BACK UP.

          IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE TO TAKE A TRIP UP TO "VAN CURLERS BAR" TAKE IT! I PROMISE YOU WOULDN'T REGET IT. JUST TAKE A SMALLER "PLANE".

       

 My Parents never told Me that I was white, They never told Me that People were differant. And I never saw it. My Dad was sent to A little Church down in the bottoms, it was an all Black Church. It was called First Church of Jesus Christ.They needed a new roof and couldn't afford to have one put on.So with the help of this missionry group that My Dad worked for They were able to get the supplies and it was My dads job to put it all together. As He went to work I set out to play and Have fun. Now I didn't know the rules that governed the south because I was never told. My play mates were the Children from the Church and The bottoms. I was the only White kid in the group. I was having so much fun We went to the movies, I set with My Friends,rode in the back of the bus and drink out of They're water fouten, not knowing all along I was starting something that could be deadly. We were Kids just Children enjoying life and Friendship. 

    Well one night at all came to a horrible end. We were sleeping when We heard a loud bang out side My Dad got up to see what was going on,Mom and I followed. There was this bright light out in the front yard it was a fire! As We looked out the window there were this Man all dressed in white with hoods on They were saying horrible things calling My Dad horrible Names. My Father was a big Man Who stood 6'5" and weight a round 280. He stepped out on the front porch pick up a two by four and started walking towards Them saying " My Daughter will go were She wants Play with Who She wants and Live as She wants." All of a sudden out of the night there were all these People carring hoes, hummers, and other things They didn't say a word just came between My Dad and the horrible Men, Who began to jump back into their trucks and hollowing unspeakble things drove off. Ihave never Now or before felt so much hateor fear ever. It was a lesson I will never forgot.