by Floyd Smoots » Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:42 pm
I'm definitely a mutt, as defined by the thread about the old Winchester, Virginia guy's blog/post. My great grandfather, Alexander, came here to Virginia circa the early 1870's. Family gossip has it that he was a minister of some church or other in Dundee, Scotland.<br><br>The story goes that he was given a ship ticket for himself, his wife, and three children for the "Colonies" by the board of deacons because he had Bill Clinton's Syndrome. I.E., he couldn't keep his hands and other parts off some few ladies in his congregation. I don't know 'cause I wasn't there, but that's the legend anyway.<br><br>My grandfather, Harry was about 12 at the time. He, and his successors married into the line of "already here" Virginians, thus producing, my father, Frederick, and later, myself, Alexander the Second. I have always had a fondness for bagpipe music, so I guess that's legitimately genetic. I was also raised as a Yankee-hatin' Rebel (Yee-Haw!!), but, hopefully, I got a little better with a little schoolin' (including college & stuff).<br><br>I still believe that we would have all been better off if the Confederacy had managed to keep itself intact, only because we would not have the monstrous bloated federal government that so terrifies so many of us today. But, as a believer in God, I also have to figure that THAT wasn't part of His grand plan.<br><br>I've always wanted to visit the old homeland, Scotland, but, I'm very very afraid that if I did it today, now that I can just barely afford it, the PTB would find an excuse to refuse me re-entry to my "homeland", and I would find myself feeling very "insecure", if you know what I mean.<br><br>.......Uncle Floyd<br> <p></p><i></i>
