2014 North Carolina Seafood Festival

If you like seafood and good entertainment, Morehead City is the place to be October 3 thru 5. The NC  Seafood Festival has all of that...food, live entertainment, amusements, rides, arts and crafts and lots of people. I think it is better than the state fair and it is free, except for the food of course.

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Following are a couple of photos I took last year.

Following is a shot I took off the web.

There is great live music all three days with a well known NC feature band each year. This year it will be the Embers. 

Check out the following link for the full schedule. 

http://ncseafoodfestival.org

If any classmates or friends plan to come, give me a call. 

The Oldest and the Youngest of Our Class?

The According to Facebook, we have two classmates celebrating birthdays this week. One is going to be 70 and the other will not.

Circa 1963

Marvin's birthday is September 21 and he may be the senior statesman of our class. 

Dottie's birthday is September 23 and is possibly the baby of our class. 

Circa 1963

Happy Birthday to both of our dear classmates. 

If any of you know of an older or younger classmate, let me know. 

OOPS!!!

Just discoverd that Cecil is older than Marvin. 

Cecil was born July 12, 1944. Is he the oldest?

Winston Salem Airshow

I had the opportunity to take my two oldest grandsons to the Winston Salem Airshow this past weekend. The weather was nice and I think they enjoyed the trip. 

There were the usual attractions with lots of people. The main attraction was the Memphis Belle. I'm not sure if it was the the original Memphis Belle or a B-17 restored to look like the Memphis Belle. In any event, it is not often one gets the chance to see a vintage B-17. 

And No I didn't pay $450 for a ride!  

Flying no longer is a large part of my life. I have been to many air shows and have flown many hours in my own airplane.  I enjoyed ever minute, but no longer have the desire I once had. As one gets older, new priorities come along. As a result, I decided to sell the airplane that I owned for 28 years. It is hard to part with something you have owned that long. 

There she goes on her way to her new owner in Texas. This picture was taken in May. Hope she found a good home. 

Angier Chemical Company

We recently stopped at the J R Moore and Son Store on highway 421 on our way to visit our daughter and her family in Winston Salem. The store was opened in 1935 and is located just west of Sanford in the small community of Gulf. We have passed it many times but never stopped.  The store has been featured on one of the WUNC programs some time back. I can't remember the name of the show but I do remember seeing an old wooden crate on the show that piqued my interest.  

I decided to stop to see if I could find the crate. 

Well, I found the crate. I was hoping to find some tie between the name of the company and our home town. A quick Google search indicated no tie. What a shame. It would have made a nice story. 

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Angier's Emulsion was a cough mixture made from petroleum and hypophosphates that had been used since 1892. Manufactured by the Angier Chemical Company Limited, based in London it also claimed to be effective in cases of bronchitis, consumption, all lung affections, stomach and bowel disorders, ulcers, chronic indigestion, diarrhoea, dysentery, nervous dyspepsia and constipation. The firm used to advertise heavily and had a promotional magazine called 'The Angier idea' that ran from the early 1900s through to at least 1936.
The leaflet shows a young woman in a red, fur-trimmed, hooded cape carrying a basket and a bottle of Angier's Emulsion along a snow-covered road. When she encounters the billboard advertising her purchase - "It has no equal as a lung healer" - she can rest assured she's "got the right one"!
'Cure-all' medicines were very common at the time. Whether they actually lived up to all their claims is doubtful."

If you are ever in Gulf, pay a visit to the J R Moore store. They have lots of cool stuff, a little like Mast General Store. 

Cooking Fish at the Beach

We have been talking all summer about cooking the fish that Herbert had in his freezer.  Well, it finally happened this weekend and it was so good.  There was dolphin, wahoo and spanish mackeral.  There was cole slaw, pasta salad, hot blue collard dip, and Barbara's mexican cornbread.  What a Feast!!!

The first batch is in the fryer.

Herbert and his son Adam caught the mackeral, the wahoo and the dolphin are courtesy of one of his neighbors.

The Millers have a perfect place to have a fish fry.  It is outside with plenty of shade and there seems to always be a cool breeze.  

Herbert.  When are we going to do it again?

Labor Day

Most of us seniors have paid our dues and are entitled to celebrate Labor Day. When I was growing up, Labor Day meant that you were probably in the tobacco field priming tips, getting in the last of the crop so that you could go back to school. There certainly was no celebrating. I'm not complaining. That was the way it was and that was all we knew. I had to work in the fields because my parents worked in the fields. When I was old enough to touch the peddles of that old Ford 8N tractor, I was helping with the farming. I didn't necessary like it, but now I am glad that I had to do it.

Today, many high schoolers don't know what labor is. They don't know what it is like to do backbreaking labor in the hot sun for very little pay. Now all of that is done by migrant laborers. Though farming has changed tremendously in the past 50 years there is still quite a bit of manual labor involved as it is in other occupations. 

My hat is off to those who harvest our food, build our houses, flip our hamburgers, or do the jobs that we can no longer do. Hard work didn't hurt us and hard work will not hurt them. Maybe when they get to be 69 or 70 years old, they can look back and say that they have paid their dues.