I just don't know where to put this question, I would appreciate
a response, it there is one.
I like to know if any of you lived in Jackson, Mississippi, between the mid sixties to early seventies (you being an youngish or adult then)
I just found extensive letter conversations from that time between my parents (both dead since two decades) and somehow one and two cousins from Texas (no that must be wrong, it is in the state of Mississippi) As a kid we knew that there were cousins there and she and he had visited us in Germany and my perents visited them over in Texas, Mississippi - heh got confused, if Jackson is in Mississippi or in Texas) and I read my fahter's English letters to them from those times (which is very funny). I must have been between 8 to 13 years old and all I remember from that visit, is that my mother was very nervous to receive them 'right' and with respect etc. I also remember that we as kids didn't like that cousin (don't tell anybody) I think the must be dead by now though.
So, Texas and German relations, they are there to stick around. Viva Texan - German friendship !
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Sorry, never lived in Mississippi
Jackson is one of the larger cities in Mississippi.
I'm one state to the East. There's quite a few Germans in Huntsville Alabama where they design and build rockets. I've heard the man who ran the cotton gin a 100 years ago in my nearby town was a German as well.
The common colonial migration pattern was SC to GA to AL and then to TX.
An old Alabama folk song tells part of the story...
Going To The West
In this fair land you’ll stay no more
Here labor is in vain
You’ll leave the mountains of our birth
And seek the fertile plains
You’re going to the west
You say you will not go with me
You turn your eyes away
You say you will not follow me
No matter what I say
I’m going to the west
The years have passed since we first met
When you became my bride
Now I must journey far away
Without you by my side
I’m going to the west
You’ll leave me here, in this land I love
Mid scenes so bright and fair
Where fragrant flowers are blooming
And music fills the air
You’re going to the west
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
There is a Jackson County in Texas
But it sounds like the Jackson to which you infer is in Mississippi
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Per wiki ..
The region that is now the city of Jackson was historically part of the large territory occupied by the Choctaw Nation. The Choctaw name for the locale was Chisha Foka. The area now called Jackson was obtained by the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Doak's Stand in 1820, by which the United States acquired the land owned by the Choctaw Native Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Mississippi
question everything
thank you, lookout, so wonderful to get this information
from you. I just talked to a cousin of mine in Berlin, Gernany, who turned 90 years today. and we talked, talked and talked and both of us remembered things, which, in a way turned my whole life around, when I was just 18 years old. Some things in life come into the open just in our very old age, after they just don't matter anymore.
I think I turned into an old fashioned archivist, just because I learned that, what happens to yourself in life, it all needs to be proven with some papers from your personal paper archives. Now, some fifty years later, I am glad I can prove that what happened to me and others was correct, through my personal paper archives. Nobody would believe my life story without those proofs. I want to forget them anyway.
Good Riddance. I have some time left to enjoy learning, a lot from you, "Herr Oberlehrer". Thanks a million.
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I'm reminded of something I read recently, Mimi
"When a man dies, a library dies with him."
Makes one think about what to keep and what to toss out.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
and to decide what to toss and what to keep
@ earthling 1
is the worst job of all. Especially if you have lots of books and lots oo china. What do you do with at least 8 diffenrent sets of china?
makes you want to be poorer ...
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you might find some interest in this...
or maybe not, but here you go:
German migration to Texas
wow, thank you, I need at least a weak to read through this.
but I definitely will.
Im half a week I am done with all my work and responsibilities I have concerning the house and garden which I inherited to take care of since my sister is gone and probably then til I myself go to the other side.
That's what I look forward to, being able to read all I want or do not want.
Thanks again.
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sorry to hear you lost your sister
just found out my brothers wife checked out
tearing him up. they had a pretty good life together
Least they had a son to help out some.
question everything
I expressed myself wrongly, my sister is still alive,
I lost my brother. thanks for your kind compassion. My sister just lives under the rules and regulations of our city government's caretaking personell. What can I say, I am not impressed what they decide and do with or for her. But I have lost all rigths and can't do anything about it.
It is all confusing. I meant with the expression that 'my sister is gone', that mentally she is losing a concept of herself and of the time she is living in. She thinks that she still can do anything, and just can't see herself not being able to do any of the things she believes she can do. I don't know what kind of dementia she has, it is confusing to me AND to the caretaking personell.
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