[AT] funny..

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Tue Oct 31 07:25:28 PST 2006 

I know Ed,  I just couldn't resist the urge to make a joke out of the play 
on words.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CRAWLER HEAVEN" <edc at crawlerheaven.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] funny..


> Thats the 2 years i lived in Zanesville.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>
>
>> Wow Ed,  you grew up quick!  Only 2 years.  It took me nearly 20.
>> LOL.
>>
>> Just joking.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "CRAWLER HEAVEN" <edc at crawlerheaven.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>>
>>
>> > When i was a kid (1961-62) i lived in Zanesville Largest Y bridge in 
>> > the
>> > world if i remember right,I visited there a couple of years ago looked
>> > alittle distressed.  Ed Now in Palmyra New York Birth Place of the
> Mormon
>> > religion. :)
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "Rob Wilson" <rowilson at infinet.com>
>> > To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
>> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:37 PM
>> > Subject: RE: [AT] funny..
>> >
>> >
>> >> Sounds like eminent domain rearing it's ugly head. Our family home
> place
>> > was
>> >> taken for strip mining, my great grand parents general store and home
>> > taken
>> >> and tons of others in the area. This is in Eastern Ohio and of course
>> >> once
>> >> it's taken it stays taken. I recently looked at a farm near Zanesville
> Oh
>> >> that had all mineral rights owned by the electric company and they
> still
>> >> wanted going rate for it! I asked him what would stop them from coming
> in
>> >> the day after I bought it and saying they were taking the coal? His
>> >> response, well I've lived here 20 years and it hasn't happened yet.
> Well
>> >> DUH! It's still for sale.
>> >> Rob
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> >> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Al Jones
>> >> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:07 PM
>> >> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
>> >> Subject: RE: [AT] funny..
>> >>
>> >> Yes that sounds right.  My wife's family had a store and a home they
> had
>> > to
>> >> give up.  They weren't allowed to take much with them, the Army was in
>> > such
>> >> a hurry.  They leased most of their land to the government.  My FIL
> said
>> >> that when his mother got her share of the family property back, it was
>> > under
>> >> a couple feet of concrete because it was where the motor pool was!  He
>> >> has
>> >> also said they had a time finally collecting their lease money from 
>> >> the
>> >> government.  A lot of the family land got taken for good when Camp
> Lejune
>> >> expanded.
>> >>
>> >> Al
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> >> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
>> >> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:33 PM
>> >> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> >> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>> >>
>> >> Yep, Camp Butner alright. Don't know when they abandoned it after the
> war
>> >> but it wasn't long after to the best of my understanding. All the
>> >> original
>> >> roads in that town still carry their military names. There are still
>> > several
>> >> bunkers in the woods. And lots of unexploded ordinance 
>> >> remaining----the
>> > army
>> >> is still fighting that problem. To this day most of the families who
> were
>> >> displaced still get hot under the collar when talking about it. It's
> not
>> > so
>> >> much of having to give up your farm to help the good of the country 
>> >> but
>> >> it
>> >> is how they were treated. My grandfather was more sawmiller than
> farmer.
>> >> If
>> >> he wasn't in the field then he was in the woods logging. Upon 
>> >> receiving
>> > his
>> >> eviction notice one of the stipulations was that he was not to cut 
>> >> down
>> >> another tree effective immedialtely. The house they were living in was
> 4
>> >>
>> >> years old---it became an officers club. My dad, who was 12 yrs old,
>> >> pulled
>> >> every bit of wiring out of the house. Every screen was pulled off the
>> >> windows. Anything they could take with them they did. Trying to move a
>> >> farming operation and working on 2 farms a considerable distance apart
>> > took
>> >> its toll healthwise on my grandfather. He died the same year they 
>> >> moved
>> >> here. Afterwards dad quit school to help his mother farm. Fortunatley
>> >> they
>> >> had several tennants. Then again this cost them when the allotment for
>> >> tobacco progarm began since most of the tennants were not high yield
>> >> producers. Supposedly the feds were going to allow them the chance to
> buy
>> >> back their land but never did. The state got first crack at it. They
>> > bought
>> >> it and then proceeded to cut the timber. Talk about adding insult to
>> >> injury!!!  The area my dad's family was from was known as Veazey 
>> >> Ridge.
>> >> The
>> >> newspaper headline in '42 read "For the first time in 200 years there
> are
>> > no
>> >> Veazey's on Veazey ridge". Well, we've been here for the past 60 years
>> >> although the farm is down from 600 to just 60 acres. To the best of my
>> >> knowledge most of the Veazeys are out of farming. Not exactly
> genealogy,
>> > but
>> >> its my way of tracking part of my family.
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
>> >> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> >> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> >> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:02 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > I'd bet John is talking about Camp Butner.  That's near his stomping
>> >> > grounds.
>> >> >
>> >> > Charlie
>> >> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> >> > From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
>> >> > To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
>> >> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> >> > Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:44 PM
>> >> > Subject: RE: [AT] funny..
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> John, What base was that?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Down here at the coast, some of my wife's family was displaced when
>> >> they
>> >> >> built Camp Davis at Holly Ridge.  TRACTOR CONTENT: A history
>> >> instructor
>> >> >> at Cape Fear Community College has just written a good book about
> the
>> >> >> history of the base.  His father was Wilbur Tyndall, who owned the
> JD
>> >> >> museum in Pink Hill.  Small world.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> My Granddaddy and great-Granddaddy got jobs as carpenters
>> >> constructing
>> >> >> the base.  Not much is left today, the base was closed after the
> war.
>> >> >> Camp Lejune owns most of the land now but the air strip is still
> back
>> >> >> there in the woods, I am told, and you can still spy a brick 
>> >> >> chimney
>> >> >> here and there from the base.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Al
>> >> >>
>> >> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> >> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> >> >> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John 
>> >> >> Hall
>> >> >> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 5:14 PM
>> >> >> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> >> >> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Come to think of it I believe I have an uncle buried on what used 
>> >> >> to
>> >> be
>> >> >> his
>> >> >> family's farm. His wife however was buried in a church cemetery.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> WWII dislodged all of my grandmothers family. Uncle Sam needed the
>> >> land
>> >> >> for
>> >> >> a military base/POW camp. Anyhow there were several old cemetery's
>> >> >> there.
>> >> >> They didn't move them but didn't do a whole lot to upkeep them
>> >> either.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Some of which are now on property owned by the state.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> John
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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