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Dec 14th, 2009 Posted in Anecdote, Celebrity, Christmas | no comment »
Growing up in Florida we usually had warm weather for the Christmas holidays. We still sang ‘Frosty the Snowman’ and ‘White Christmas,’ but we didn’t relate to the lyrics of those songs as much as our friends up North did.
Being raised in an extremely rural area on a cattle ranch, our family made up some of our own Christmas traditions that we dutifully repeated every year. Our mom and a couple of our aunts congregated in the kitchen each Christmas Eve to fry up cornbread to make stuffing for the Christmas turkey, along with delicious pies, cakes and cookies for the big day.
This post was submitted by Publicist.
Tags: Bellamy Brothers, Christmas, Florida, music
Dec 10th, 2009 Posted in Christmas, Heart Warmin' Tale (G), Historic | no comment »
Mount Scott near Lawton, Oklahoma
Photo by C. Packer
By Rev. Danny Scott
I remember when I was still a very young child, my dad’s mother, my grandmother, Alice Watson, came to live with us in our small home in
Shannon, Alabama (now called Oxmoor Valley and
Ross Bridge).
Granny Scott, as I sometimes called her, was a native Arapaho Souix Indian from the area of Lawton Oklahoma and Fort Sill. In 1876, my Grandpaw Monroe Scott purchased her. He traded 7 horses for her. She was only 13 years old at the time.
Grandmaw’s Indian name was Little Feather, but Grandpaw Monroe changed her name to Alice Watson.
He brought her by covered wagon to Chilton County in the town of Thorsby, Alabama.
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This post was submitted by Rev. Danny Scott.
Tags: Alabama, Arapaho, Christmas, Oklahoma, Souix
Dec 5th, 2009 Posted in Anecdote, Celebrity, Christmas, Heart Warmin' Tale (G) | no comment »
Hank Cochran
“As a child, I lived with my grandparents and we were very poor. Every year I would hear the other kids talking about Christmas trees and presents – and I really didn’t understand why we didn’t have those things.
We talked about Jesus, but His birthday wasn’t a gift-giving occasion at our small home in Mississippi. One year when I was six or seven, I finally got up the nerve to ask my grandmother why we didn’t celebrate Christmas like everyone else. Her answer was, “You just have to believe.”
Well, that was pretty heady thinking for a kid, but I wanted presents like all of the other kids – so I began to concentrate – and believe.
That Christmas Eve, Grandmother reminded me of my promise to believe, and I went to bed that night praying for “Christmas” with all my might.
This post was submitted by Hank Cochran.
Tags: Christmas, Hank Cochran, music
