As you can see from this map of recent visitors, Free North Carolina's readers come from across North America but seem to be concentrated in the South and southern California. I thought y'all might be interested in where your fellow readers hail from.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Where do our readers come from?
As you can see from this map of recent visitors, Free North Carolina's readers come from across North America but seem to be concentrated in the South and southern California. I thought y'all might be interested in where your fellow readers hail from.
Jack Kershaw, An Associate Of The Fugitive Poets Of Vanderbilt, Dies At 97
LeagueOfSouth
Jack Kershaw age 97 died Wednesday Sept.7, 2010 Artist, sculptor, home builder, farmer, lawyer, lecturer, southern historian, Vanderbilt Graduate in the early1930’s. A renaissance man, non conforming in both dress and content. Jack was one of those unforgettable characters portrayed in the Readers Digest Articles. A gold plated eccentric.
Jack was born in Missouri in 1913 to Karl and Ethel Norton Kershaw. His father had a degree in geology and civil mining. His mother was born in Wyoming and after her mother’s death; her father abandoned his four children. Her uncle took the boys and raised them in Wyoming and Jack’s mother and sister were sent to live with an aunt in Tennessee. She was raised in a home of privilege and received a good education becoming a school teacher. She met and married Karl Kershaw in Missouri and from this union Jack was born. Karl moved his family to Old Hickory, Tennessee when WW1 broke out and was the engineer in charge of building the DuPont power plant. Mrs. Kershaw returned to the classroom to teach.
Jack attended Warner school, MBA where he played football and attended a military school at Stone Mountain Ga. and then Vanderbilt University where he played football while majoring in geology, history and art.
When the first pro football team was formed in Nashville in the late 1930’s, he was the quarter back playing with such notable local characters as Haynes Noel. This team was dissolved due to the war. Jack was a member of the State of Tennessee Militia as a Calvary member .He was a member of the first Tennessee Arts Commission.
Jack became associated with a group of intellectuals who called themselves the Fugitive Poets of Vanderbilt in the 1920’s. This group of students would go on to make a great impact of how the history of the south would be told. The Fugitive is considered to be one of the most influential publications in the history of American letters. The Fugitives made Vanderbilt a fountainhead of the New Criticism, the dominant mode of textual analysis in English during the first half of the twentieth century. Included in this group among the most notable Fugitives were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, John Crow, Merrill Moore, Donald Davidson, William Ridley Wills, Robert Penn Warren, Andrew Lytle, Cleanth Brooks, and the poet Laura Riding, although not a member was West Tennessean Jesse Hill Ford. Andrew Lytle was a first cousin of Jack’s late wife.
Jack was married to Mary Noel in the 1930,s taking up residence in the former Glendale Country Clubhouse, which had closed during the depression and owned by his father in law, Edwin Noel. Mary was from an equally privileged family and an educated southern dame. It could be said they were equals as she was raised into art, music and letters. Mary died in 1989. Mr. Noel owned a very large block of land in south Nashville. He and Jack farmed and developed this property.
Jack and Mary decided, more on a “lark” to attend the YMCA LAW School. He was admitted to the bar in the 1960’s. His most famous client was the late James Earl Ray. Jack has written but yet not published a book on all involved in this affair. Because of the sensitive nature of its contents is being kept at a secure off site from his home. He has two other yet unpublished works set for release sometime in the future.
His most notable art piece is that of General Nathan Bedford Forrest Horse and Rider located on I-65 South just north of Brentwood and Joan of Arch a two story depiction of her death at the stake.
Jack was a co-founder of the League of the South; member of the (SCV) Sons of Confederate Veterans; M.O.S.B. the officer corps of the SCV; member Joe Johnston Camp 28 SCV. He was an heir of Admiral Kershaw CSA of South Carolina.
Jack is survived by two 2nd cousins Mike Jamison of Los Angeles, CA, and Debra Pronto of Indianapolis, IN. and his cat Coco Jack had many friends that have looked after him these last two years, Ryan and Terry Reeves of Old Hickory. Others in Jack’s inter circle of close friends were Frank Ritter, Ross Massey, Wes Shofner, Henry Hood and Sir William Dorris.
Jack wishes of cremation have been carried out.
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery following a memorial service and Celebrations of Remembrances set for Sept.18 at 11.00 A.M
All Saints Southern Episcopal Church 46sh and Park Avenue, West Nashville.
On Government
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
--Mark Twain
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"I can now think of a certain government that follows this."
--Dixie Linh Townsend
--Mark Twain
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"I can now think of a certain government that follows this."
--Dixie Linh Townsend
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Obama Extends Bush’s 9/11 State Of Emergency
"Justifying their actions as necessitated by an 'emergency' is a favorite tactic of other power-hungry rulers -- Stalin and Hitler come to mind." The rest HERE.
NC LS September Conference & Nathaniel Macon Institute (NMI)
“North Carolina Liberty Flag”
(One Week Away!!!)
“Localism: Effective Political Activism at Home”
(a facilitated panel-discussion)
11AM-3PM
Saturday, 18 September 2010,
Mayflower Seafood Restaurant, 1160 Huffman Mill Road
Burlington, North Carolina
Our September Conference theme will focus on how NC LS members can effectively involve themselves in political dialogue and debate in their own section of North Carolina. The recent “tea party” movement has produced opportunities for LS members to raise the issues of true political representation and self-determination, and the over-reaching hand of the Washington regime.
We must not let this pass and we must be a part of the solution.
We can either sit idly in our homes while that Washington regime turns the country into a socialist peoples’ republic, or we as LS members be involved in local debate and help influence political thought toward self-determination. While the LS asserts that no realistic national political reform is possible, we must still help shape political events in our own sovereign States.
Our conference will be highlighted by two-segments of panel-facilitated interactive discussion with LS REBELLION! Blogger Mike Tuggle, New Hanover County Libertarian Party Chair John Evans. This discussion will allow our members to relate what opportunities exist in their towns, and what methods have produced results or failure. We are all seeking best-practices for carefully and creatively inserting convincing traditional conservative arguments into local debates, remembering that all politics is local. We will also discuss what does not work, and what to avoid.
From stressing the importance of State sovereignty and the intent of the Tenth Amendment, to watering the seeds of self-determination for North Carolinians in the face of a despotic nationalist regime, we must first be active locally and seize the opportunities to build consensus for liberty.
Please join us for an inspiring and interactive day of dialogue, learning and re-energizing ourselves.
Directions:
Take Exit 141 off I-40/85 and turn West away from town (left if you are coming from Raleigh, right if you are coming from Greensboro). The Mayflower is located on the left just beyond the interstate overpass and beside the Kangaroo gas station.
See www.northcarolina.chapterlos.net for agenda information.
Duo Wants To Establish Third Palmetto Republic
"In March of 1776, Colonists living in South Carolina decided they were fed up with British rule and seceded from the empire.That was the first "Palmetto Republic."
A little less than a century later, in 1860, there was another secession, which lasted until South Carolina joined the Confederate States of America two months later.
That was the second Palmetto Republic. Read about the proposed third HERE.
Kindness of T
A little less than a century later, in 1860, there was another secession, which lasted until South Carolina joined the Confederate States of America two months later.
That was the second Palmetto Republic. Read about the proposed third HERE.
Kindness of T
I Remember, I Remember........
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