Where We Grew Up--The Answers

1.  Leah Earp

2.  Ray Owen

3.  Berti Stevens

4.  Johnny Mangum

 

1.  Sondra Chance

2.  Kenneth Fish

3.Ronnie Dupree

 

4.  Glenda West

5.  Herbert Miller

 

1.  Toni Gaines

2.  Rex Matthews

3.Robert Lawrence, I think.  (Well it turns out that this is not Robert's home place. Sorry Robert)

4.  Sandra Currin

5.  Don Fish

6.  Sandy Owen

7.  Larry Spivey

8.  Marvin Smith

Where We Grew Up Part III

Following are the rest of the Google Street screen shots of classmate's childhood homes. These may be a little harder to identify.  Even I have problems identifying some of  these and I am the one that looked them up.

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One thing I think we can all agree on is that appearances change after 50 years. These old houses are like many of us. Some have aged gracefully, some are rundown and decrepit, and some are no longer with us.  

Where We Grew Up Part II

Following are additional childhood homes of classmates that I found on Google Streets. These may be a little harder to identify. It is amazing how things look so different from your memories of 50 years ago.

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Send your answers to mangumf@aol.com. 

Where We Grew Up

Following are homes where some of our classmates lived when we were in high school. Many of our parents' homes are no longer standing. My childhood home was demolished many years ago.

These pictures we done the easy way. I used Google Streets so the quality may not be the best. See if you can identify the house and which classmate lived there. 

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Let's see how many of you can name the classmates that lived in these houses.  Send responses to mangumf@aol.com

Valentine's Day

 

I think this holiday was fabricated by FTD or maybe Hallmark.  None the less, it is the time of year that we recognized the special Other of our lives. 

I thought I would go through my photographs and see if I could find some pictures of our classmates with their special Valentines. I didn't find everyone, but I found quite a few.  What a handsome group!

If I missed anyone, it was because I didn't have a picture. Have a Happy Valentine's Day.

Here We Go Again

UPDATE:

It's is now Wednesday, February 12, 2:30 pm. Here comes the big snow. Nearly whiteout conditions here at the house. 

Looking out the front toward Montague Rd. 

About 4 inches on the ground now and it is still coming down. It is moving from the south and Fayetteville is beginning to get freezing rain. I hope we don't lose power. 

Well, there is nothing to do but wait and see what happens.  The generator is ready but I sure don't want to use it. 

By the way, the snow is perfect for adult snow cream.  It's my own recipe.  I call it "The Sochi Blizzard". We have more snow today than the Olympics. 

Following is from yesterday:

Tuesday, February 11, 12:00 noon looking out my back door.  This is suppose to be just the beginning and the bad stuff is suppose to get here Wednesday and Thursday.  I am 68 years old and I have seen all the snow that I ever want to see.  Enough already. I'm ready to move south. 

Maybe Marvin has a spare room down on the Florida gulf coast or Dottie might put me up down on the Texas gulf coast. Heck, I bet Johnny in Bluffton, SC doesn't have to contend with this mess.  Sondra is it warm in southern Mississippi?

HELP!  I'm sure that there is a classmate out there somewhere in a warm climate that would put me up  until spring. 

Memorial

There were 50 classmates in our 1963 senior class yearbook. That was a long time ago though it seems so recent. Classmates are now approaching the big Seven Zero. It is hard to believe that we are that old.

Of the 50 classmates, there were 40 surviving when we had our fiftieth class reunion last year. Less than one year later we have lost another dear classmate. Linda Lou Gardner Weeks passed away Sunday, February 2. 

We will all miss Linda Lou.  I am so glad that I had a chance to work with her on planning of the 50th Reunion. You could always count on Linda.

Small Town Genetics

The Class of 1963 is so lucky in many ways. We grew up in a small town of about 1400 people. There were 50 in our senior class. We knew nearly everything about our classmates both good and bad. When we walked down the streets of Angier, we rarely saw a stranger.  We lived near most of our cousins and friends so there was always someone to play with and share our experiences.  

When we graduated, we started our life's journey which took us in many different directions. We were mobile. Some of us travelled long distances. Some of us went off to work or off to college or off to war. We met new and interesting people, and even married people that were not from this area or even this country. Many of us have made our lives out of state. We are products of progress, the ability to travel great distances with ease. We think nothing of jumping in a car or an airplane or train or ship and traveling to distant places.

Now think of our parents and grandparents. When my grandfather moved to Angier in the early 1920's, he arrived from Granville county on a horse and wagon. 

Grandfather Eugene Clinton Mangum as a young man  1885-1962

At that time a move of that magnitude would be like moving to Australia today. He had little choice because the Granville Wilt had ruined the tobacco farming in that area and he was a tobacco farmer. When he came to Angier, he brought a wife and six children. 

Now think about your great grandparents and your great great grandparents. They only had walking, horses and a few steam trains for transportation. Many of them probably never left the county before finishing school if they even finished school. The Mangum's genealogy has been traced back to 1670. Everyone of them lived in Granville county. 

Great great grandfather William Clinton Mangum  1828-1913

The young people at that time had a hard time finding someone to marry that they were not related to. I suspect that many of them married not too distant cousins. It is a miracle that we weren't born with three eyes and twelve toes. 

So progress can be a good thing. Five of granddad Mangum's six children married people that were from Angier that had no relations to the Mangum's which helped to expand the Angier gene pool. Even though I am a product one one of those marriages, I am astounded by the number of people in Angier that I am related to. 

It is my contention that a large gene pool impoves the genetics of our children. Both of my daughters came from a larger gene pool than I did. They are both much prettier and infinitely smarter than I am.  One of their husbands is from Mississippi and the other is from Alabama (even a larger gene pool). I have three grandsons from these unions. Like all grandfathers, I am very proud of them and can tell you that they are all destined for greatness. I am sure you feel the same about your progeny.