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The Taylor County News, July 1, 2021, Page 2.
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“They* (I don't know who “they” is) say that as long as you
live, you leam something new every day. And, so far, I’ve found
that to be true. No matter how much we think we may know-
-there's still a whole lot that we don’t know!
Well, I’ve learned something that I just can’t believe I never
heard about. It’s supposedly a Southern thing, and I’m about
as Southern as you can get, and I have never heard this—until
now! (I feel like you are going to laugh, because this really
seems like something I should have known, and you probably
know this. But, you just don’t know what you don’t know!)
1 love the show on HGTV “Hometown”. It’s a couple that is
renovating their hometown of Laurel, MS, one house, or one
shop, at a time. (They also recently redid Wetumpka, AL.) I
don’t know much about Laurel, but my Mam was from Laurel,
so I feel slightly connected to the little town. I love to see the
old farm houses that they renovate. They take a plain, little
house and transform it into a show place.
Well, from this show, I learned that many porches in the South
have a light blue ceiling. They call the color “haint blue”. I
have no idea if the porch ceilings around here are blue, or not,
but I do know that, if they are, I’ve never noticed.
The show didn’t go into the reasons for the blue porch ceil
ings, so I looked it up. Yep, it’s a real thing, with deep roots!
I found three reasons that porch ceilings are painted haint
blue. The first is a Gullah legend from the coastal region of
Georgia and South Carolina. The Gullahs painted the porch
ceilings blue, so they would look like water. Supposedly, haints
(or ghosts or spirits! will not cross water, so the porch ceiling is
painted blue to keep haints out of the house, hence “haint blue”.
The next reason is to keep bugs and birds away. For these
critters, the blue porch ceiling looks like the sky, so they don’t
huild their nests, webs, hives, etc. under your porch. I have no
idea if this works, or not, but it’s worth a try!
The final reason for the blue porch ceilings is to extend day
light, Well, we know that a little paint won’t change the length
of a day, but supposedly, the light reflects From the blue color
and makes it appear that the daylight is lasting just a tad
longer!
My Granny was all about some old waves’ tales, superstitions,
and legends—that’s why 1 can’t believe I’ve never heard about
this!
There’s a porch on the front of our house, and the ceiling is
not blue, I think I’ll paint it “haint blue”. It won’t show from
the road, and keeping the haints and bugs away and getting a
few more minutes of daylight won’t hurt a thing! LOL. I might
even paint the frontdoor blue, too!
Disclaimer: In these days of “political correctness” and less
and less humor, you can hardly write anything that doesn’t
draw an incorrect conclusion and some backlash. So, I’m not
really promoting haints or telling you to paint your porch ceil
ing blue to keep bugs away, or even to extend the length of the
day. I just think a blue porch ceiling could be pretty!
To rlie Light
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Privileged Few
In the past couple of years, the folks that run Coca-Cola,
Delta Airlines, and other big-name Atlanta companies in
sisted that their white employees attend diversity train
ing to learn to be “less white.” How idiotic is that?
That business aristocracy has replaced the southern
planters of the pre-Civil War era. Only today, they pro
mote a racist theory that white people are the root of all
society's ills.
We cannot talk about history without the “woke” decrying
us “racists “bigots,” or worse.
Ignorant boobs are toppling monuments; uppity politi
cians are renaming streets, buildings, and even places.
Business elites are counting their loot while stirring up
trouble.
Writer George Orwell saw this coming and in 1948 wrote
a book he titled, 1984. The main character, Winston, worked
in the government bureaucracy, the Ministry of Truth.
Orwell wrote of that bureaucracy saying, “Every record
has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, ev
ery picture has been repainted, every statue and street
building has been renamed, every date has been altered.
History has stopped.”
Why? Just so politicians and plutocrats that control the
narrative of history can keep their positions of authority!
They foment discord between people and even nations.
Winston often found himself erasing people and events
as recent as the week before! Politics and business are
strange endeavors. They foment discord, war, and then
send citizens to fight the battles.
Ugh!
On July 2, one hundred fifty-eight years ago (1863), pa
ternal grandfather Thomas’ grandfather Riley was a pri
vate in the 59th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment,
Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America.
He and his three brothers served in F Company (mostly
Dooly County men); a few miles south of the Pennsylvania
town of Gettysburg, they engaged in what their commander
Lieutenant General James Longstreet said was, “the best
three hours’ fighting done by any troops on any battlefield.”
What a shame it is that corporate America’s greed wants
to cancel that little bit of America’s culture for money.
The prologue to Eliza Frances Andrews book The War
time Journal of a Georgia Girl notes, “The author’s [aris
tocratic] lot was cast amid the tempest and fury of war,
and if her utterances are sometimes out of accord with the
spirit of our own happier time, it is because she belonged
Scripture Of
The Week
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy
and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Proverbs 14:22, KJV
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to an era which, though but of yesterday, as men count the
ages of history, is separated from our own by a social and
intellectual chasm as broad almost as the lapse of a thou
sand years. In the lifetime of a single generation, the people
of the South have been called upon to pass through changes
that the rest of the world has taken centuries to accom
plish, The distance between the armor-clad knight at Acre
and the ‘embattled farmers’ at Lexington is hardly greater
than that between the feudal aristocracy which dominated
Southern sentiment in 1860, and the commercial plutoc
racy that rules over the destinies of the nation to-day.
“Never was there an aristocracy so compact, so united, so
powerful. Out of a population of some 9,000,000 whites
that peopled the Southern States, according to the census
of 1850, only about 300,000 were actual slaveholders. Less
than 3,000 of these men owning, say, over 100 negroes each,
constituted the great planter class, who, with a small pro
portion of professional and business men affiliated with
them in culture and sympathies, dominated Southern sen
timent and for years dictated the policy of the nation. The
more prominent families all over the country knew each
other by reputation, if not by actual contact, and to be a
member of the privileged few in one community was an
ex-officio title to membership in all. To use a modern
phrase, we were intensely ‘class conscious’ and this brought
about a solidarity of feeling and sentiment almost compa
rable to that created by family ties. Narrow and provincial
we may have been, in some respects, but take it all in all,
it is doubtful whether the world has ever produced a state
of society more rich in all the resources for a thoroughly
wholesome, happy, and joyous life than existed among the
privileged ‘4,000’ under the peculiar civilization of the Old
South —a civilization which has served its purpose in the
evolution of the race and passed away forever.”
The privileged few executives (commercial plutocracy) of
Georgia’s business class replaced the planter class of 1860s
Georgia, Today, they pit groups of customers against oth
ers just to make their amusement. History will note that
they are today’s aristocratic privileged few!
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O Death,
Where Is
Thy Sting?
By Billy Powell
The view of death is radically different between the Old
and New Testaments. The Old Testament teaches that,
after death, all men and women, without distinction, go to
a shadowy domain beneath the earth called “Sheol,” The
Psalmist wrote that he trusted “God would not leave his
soul in Sheol.” The author of Ecclesiastes declared: “The
dead in Sheol know nothing.” The Jewish ruling body called
Sadducees did not believe in resurrection of the dead. The
ancients believed the body dissolved into the elements from
which it was made while the divine spark of life returned
to God.
The New Testament is the ‘Book of the Resurrection.’ If
Jesus had not risen from the dead, the New Testament
would not have been written. Jesus became the first-fruit
of those who would rise from the dead. The Christian be
lief is that ‘individuality’ will survive death-that you would
be yourself and I would he myself. After His resurrection
from the dead and before His ascension into heaven (Acts
1:9), Jesus was seen for a period 40 days-on one occasion
to 500 people (I Cor 15: 6)— by many infallible truths (Acts
|: 3).
Jesus’ crucifixion made possible the forgiveness of sin.
His resurrection brought the promise of eternal life. Be
cause of this truth, Jesus declared, “In my Father’s house
are many mansions” and that “He was going away to pre
pare a place for you” (John 14: 2). Jesus added another
comforting thought when He said, “If I go to prepare a
place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself,
that where I am, you may be also” (John 14: 3).
Paul said our future body will be a ‘superhuman, spiri
tual body’ like the one that Jesus had. The Apostle wrote:
“For this corrupted body shall put on incorruption and this
mortal body shall put on immortality.” Paul used the ex
ample of a seed that does not become alive until it first
dies. Just as God assigns to a seed the kind of body He
wants it to have, He transforms decaying flesh into a su
pernatural spiritual body, The best earthly analogy is the
ugly caterpillar housed inside a tomb-like cocoon. It
emerges from the cocoon as a beautiful butterfly.
Whereas animals have no thought of death or an after
life, it was God’s pleasure to create man with free will and
to hardwire into his psyche the desire to live beyond this
earthly domain. Would a loving God embed the quest for
immortality so strongly in our hearts, and then abandon
us at the grave?
Paul concludes: “Death is swallowed up in victory, O
death, where is thy sting?” Death’s sting has been nulli
fied because God gives us victory through the resurrection
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. During our remain
ing years, what should we be doing with our lives? Paul
supplies the answer: “Be steadfast and unmoving in your
faith, always abounding in the work of the Lord.”
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