General Pickett's Letters 2
Baillie!
Hey !
Here is the place to eat in Style! Almost across the street from the
motel on Steinwehr! We have been there a few times and the food is
EXCELLENTE!
Now That's The Style!
Baillie!
Strangely enough I am visited by a lot of Southern Sympathizers.
They come in and quietly tell me their true feelings. I let it out
loud and clear about Lincoln and his war of Northern aggression. I
sell a lot of flags & bumper stickers, swords & rebel knife sets. I
will do well as long as we can survive. Diane is having trouble with
her floral & gift side as it slows down in the summer but taking on
this new building with a mortgage and lines of credit are really
hurting about now. I do pray that she can survive until I get my
license to sell beer. It would be s huge asset to my retail revenues.
I am patient but I am worried for her and us as a couple.
Take care & I shall get the cd's burnt tonight hopefully!
George.
Baillie!
I have assembled your package accordingly and will submit it to the
yankee postmaster as of new light! Your package has two cd's and some
interesting items for y'all to place in your treasure box! I have s
you requested signed and dated each CD and added a few goodies for you
as well! I hope and trust you will enjoy t he contents and
send me your remarks after receiving the same. Last September my son
Erik & I joined up with the SCV to happily rejoice over the fact that
the Sims Exhibit at Gettysburg College was coming down. This negro (so
called) artist took a CSA flag-re-colored it with the sodomite
(rainbow) colors and hung it from a noose and called it the "correct
way to HANG a confederate flag". Well we were out in force on the
weekend of Sept. 25th! Here are a few pictures from the event!
George!
Our view from The Quality Inn on Steinwehr Ave!
The 40 foot by 40 foot we unfurled on that day!
Visitors interested in the truth!
Michael Duminiak SCV ANV Heritage Defense Commander.
Here we go again!
That's Old George on the left!
My sohn Erik der Grosse!
My Boys!
Local Camp member at their booth!
Lutherin Seminary "Day 1" July 1 1863
Little Round Top on the way to Devil's Den.
M son Erik downloading on his Mac Laptop!
The house that was in the Movie "Gettysburg" The scene was Gen. Lee
seeing Stewart arriving after been playing paint-ball with the yanks!
Erik, my son walking the charge!
Talk real soon! As always " for the cause"
GE Pickett
it will work George
trust in the Lord and keep your powder dry
green lights all the way - meant to be
it is a gamble but you've weighed the odds and you have each other
don't let money divided you love is more important
:)
Baillie!
Strangely enough I am visited by a lot of Southern Sympathizers.
They come in and quietly tell me their true feelings. I let it out
loud and clear about Lincoln and his war of Northern aggression. I
sell a lot of flags & bumper stickers, swords & rebel knife sets. I
will do well as long as we can survive. Diane is having trouble with
her floral & gift side as it slows down in the summer but taking on
this new building with a mortgage and lines of credit are really
hurting about now. I do pray that she can survive until I get my
license to sell beer. It would be s huge asset to my retail revenues.
I am patient but I am worried for her and us as a couple.
Take care & I shall get the cd's burnt tonight hopefully!
George.
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Ian Baillie
THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND WORDS. I AM HOPEFUL BUT CAUTIOUS AS WELL. I
have some good news though, I received a call from one of the larger
newspapers in the area for an interview & story. Actually Dan from The
Gazette just left. The interview went well. My wife said he was in here
a week ago and bought a Southern Bumper sticker that read " Fighting
Terrorism since 1861" and a can of pop. Tomorrow is the photo shoot.
Thing s will get better. My faith wavered a bit but I must keep
focused. Her Floral Shop gets tough in the summer and as I said the
mortgage is a lot more than our rent was. But today all is well and
much better.
Tomorrow will be July 1st--the battle begins, Saturday will be ok but
Sunday after I close at 2pm, by 3 I will probably be getting hammered
from a few 100 pints of beer. I will raise my glass in the honor of the
names of all our boys!
Check out all those picture I sent you and report back if they were
fair to view!
We are a band of Brothers!
George
On Jun 30, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie w
it will work George
trust in the Lord and keep your powder dry
green lights all the way - meant to be
it is a gamble but you've weighed the odds and you have each other
don't let money divided you love is more important
:)
Baillie!
Strangely enough I am visited by a lot of Southern Sympathizers.
They come in and quietly tell me their true feelings. I let it out
loud and clear about Lincoln and his war of Northern aggression. I
sell a lot of flags & bumper stickers, swords & rebel knife sets. I
will do well as long as we can survive. Diane is having trouble with
her floral & gift side as it slows down in the summer but taking on
this new building with a mortgage and lines of credit are really
hurting about now. I do pray that she can survive until I get my
license to sell beer. It would be s huge asset to my retail
revenues.
I am patient but I am worried for her and us as a couple.
Take care & I shall get the cd's burnt tonight hopefully!
George.
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Ian Baillie
Check out all those picture I sent you and report back if they were
fair to view!
We are a band of Brothers!
George
Amen to that George...............now I was looking at a portrait of
George this morning before going to school as you do........and I
thought of the picture of you with the really big flag
now you ain't got to be blind to see that you and him are the exact same
build! not just the face but the whole jolly lot!!!!!!!!!!
worth investigating
the uniform George is wearing is way too big as the cuff almost hide his
hands
now the human head is always roughly the same size no matter what the
body size
comes form the egg dividing into head and body equally at an early stage
so measure the head and then ratio the rest of the body proportionally
to work out his dimensions
compare to yours and I'll bet you $5 or a hog roast that they are the
exact same
we carry our ethric body around with us not just our soul memory
so we always look like what and who we were....... not good for some
great for others
but that's the universe for you - not fair
but I'm no oil painting yet I like my self!
so this would be a good little scientific exercise to match you and him
me I'm already sold - I can tell by the way you talk and think you're
George all right - no question
Now a curious coincidence
my College friend Phil Moore
looks the spitting image of General Alexander Webb the Brigade of whom
your boys crashed into!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm pretty sure he has a past life memory as a Cavalier one of Rupert's
rarr rarr wangers! as we say
Prince Rupert of the Rhine was King Charle's Dashing Cavalier General
until he lost mainly to Myself and Cromwell at Marston moor
had to hide in a bean field to avoid capture
but I hadn't thought of him resurfacing in the American Civil War
like me I was an Infantry General then a Rebel private
he would have been a Cavalier Gentleman (Cavalry) and then an Infantry
Major General although Brigadier at the time of Gettysburg
Phil showed us the fish tank he had installed in his master bedroom -
much to his wife delight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not :)
as a 50th birthday present to himself
on the wall above was a picture of John Wayne no less in a WW2 steel
helmet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! may be a subconscious post it note to
himself
he also has an old Army Land Rover the same as the American jeep
equivalent
we drove around the village flying the Scottish flag from the front
mudguard as we returned the BBQ after the party the other week
it's all starting to make sense
I also think that his one and only Holiday in America was to Gettysburg
and the Hersey's World in Pennsylvania
strange combination but it works for me!!!!!!!!!!!
I will check with him tonight
like you he has a family and has to keep them occupied
2 boys and a girl his eldest son said "I was going to be called Rupert!
But it got changed to Douglas after the Earl of Douglas of border fame
in history - Scotland vs England"
also he had a Rupert Bear sweat shirt on.........
so the Rupert thing is definitely there
but the John Wayne was a new one on me - it was so at odds with all the
decor of the room - wonder what Carole his wife thinks!
divorce proceedings from mine if I tried that!
I'll report back on that
would be a fine coincidence indeed - but that's how the universe
works!!!!!
I've just come accept that now and laugh!
meant to be everything for a reason
have a beer for me with the boys
we have our ball tomorrow night
heck of a weekend!
ian :)
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Humanities last chance to get it right!
Baillie!
Found this old email from last year when I ordered my Uniform. Hope these do it!
Geo
Subject: Paul Karabin/George Pickett Measurements
A. Frock Coat
1. Around Widest Area of Chest : 44"
2. Front: Seam to Seam Chest : 16"
3. Around Neck : 16-1/2"
4. Shoulder to Neck : 7"
5. Around Upper Arm: 14-1/2"
6. Outer Arm: Shoulder Seam to Waist : 22-1/2"
7. Around Wrist : 7"
8. Armpit to Waist : 19"
9. Front: Neck to Waist : 21-1/2"
10.Waist to 4" Above front of the knee : 15-1/2"
11.Around Waist : 37"
12.Back: Neck to Waist 20-1/2"
13.Waist to 4" above the back of the knee : 16"
14.Back: Seam to Seam Across Shoulder Blades : 17"
B. Pants
1.Outer Leg: Waist to Ankle : 36"
2.Inseam : 27"
3.Around Ankle: 9-1/2
4. Around Upper Thigh : 20-1/2"
5.Front: waist to crotch: 9"
6.Around Waist: 37"
7.Widest Area around hips : 38"
8.Back: Inseam to waist: 15"
C. Hat
Head diameter : 23-1/2"
Looks fine
have just this minute compared George to me ratio wise and results look
fairly accurate
ratio wise same size head comes to 7 inches across temple to temple in
straight line
so George on picture in my Gettysburg book comes out
at chest 16.24 inches straight across shoulder to shoulder me 18 inches
Upper arm 12.53 inches me 17 inches quite a difference as you would
expect
lower arm elbow to knuckle bones 11.76 inches me 15 inches
so yep much slighter
now you with the benefit of a good all American modern diet will be
larger but still proportioned same as George
so will work out from below
then e-mail
if I can find a standing portrait of George we can work out his height
ian :)#
looks on the money!
Baillie!
Found this old email from last year when I ordered my Uniform. Hope these do
it!
Geo
Subject: Paul Karabin/George Pickett Measurements
A. Frock Coat
1. Around Widest Area of Chest : 44"
2. Front: Seam to Seam Chest : 16"
3. Around Neck : 16-1/2"
4. Shoulder to Neck : 7"
5. Around Upper Arm: 14-1/2"
6. Outer Arm: Shoulder Seam to Waist : 22-1/2"
7. Around Wrist : 7"
8. Armpit to Waist : 19"
9. Front: Neck to Waist : 21-1/2"
10.Waist to 4" Above front of the knee : 15-1/2"
11.Around Waist : 37"
12.Back: Neck to Waist 20-1/2"
13.Waist to 4" above the back of the knee : 16"
14.Back: Seam to Seam Across Shoulder Blades : 17"
B. Pants
1.Outer Leg: Waist to Ankle : 36"
2.Inseam : 27"
3.Around Ankle: 9-1/2
4. Around Upper Thigh : 20-1/2"
5.Front: waist to crotch: 9"
6.Around Waist: 37"
7.Widest Area around hips : 38"
8.Back: Inseam to waist: 15"
C. Hat
Head diameter : 23-1/2"
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Ian Baillie
Baillie!
George
this site shows a do that includes Picketts great grand daughter
not the head shape very Pickett like
most of the Baillie's have a similar shaped head
also Sallie Corbell Pickett was LaSalle's name so she was a Sallie!
coincidence
beginning to think that we share a lot in common and that this is all
not a coincidence!
http://www.pickettsociety.com/dcp_ceremony.htmlHave you thought of contacting the family!!!!!
May freak 'em out if their belief systems are not open but may find the
opposite?
don't know tricky one
this is where having a book on it helps as they can take it or leave it
no pressure
sent a copy to Mary Bass Spaldings (Sallie's mother) descendants in the
hope they might have a portrait but they never got back
guess it was a freak 'em out case
Luckily with Norman it wasn't !
Other wise book would never have happened
Baillie :)
Found this old email from last year when I ordered my Uniform. Hope these do
it!
Geo
Subject: Paul Karabin/George Pickett Measurements
A. Frock Coat
1. Around Widest Area of Chest : 44"
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Ian Baillie
Baillie!
I have been supposedly looked over by Dr. Walter Simkew just like
Jeff. He is slow to respond but assures me he will do a body, face
comparison (as you have already done without andy haste) and read my
story as well. Are you familiar with his works and research. He also
claims, and I say that with no reservations but have to use the "claim"
part, to be the incarnation of Mr. Adams, one of the founding Fathers
of our USA. I just wondered if you heard of him and can give me any
insight as to his authority and credentials in our matters of late! He
seems up to snuff but his slow response worries me a bit. He appears
to be a dapper and intellectual gent, but you cannot judge the book by
its cover!
George
Got it in one George!
I have sent him my stuff and he has invited me to speak! but money time
and distance prevent me joining in at the moment
but that may change
cain't lose nothing!
he does his own thing and is making some progress
He helped Jeff
website is interesting but like most things
you have to focus your attention on what is important to you
the truth will out eventually
and so long as the guru doesn't ask for you cash - then OK
Old Indian saying "beware of Fat man with cigar!"
made that up but handsome is as handsome does so my Mom always said
Baillie :)
PS Oh I shall be closing down for a couple of weeks to go sailing over
at Herne Bay...leave Sunday
will be back end of month to check e-mail
so don't worry Baillie will be back he ain't going nowhere permanent
just round that damn light house
One of the things I got to do is get Sallie a grave marker before I peg
it.
then the matrix will allow me to get to that damn Sapelo Light house!
Baillie!
I have been supposedly looked over by Dr. Walter Simkew just like
Jeff. He is slow to respond but assures me he will do a body, face
comparison (as you have already done without andy haste) and read my
story as well. Are you familiar with his works and research. He also
claims, and I say that with no reservations but have to use the "claim"
part, to be the incarnation of Mr. Adams, one of the founding Fathers
of our USA. I just wondered if you heard of him and can give me any
insight as to his authority and credentials in our matters of late! He
seems up to snuff but his slow response worries me a bit. He appears
to be a dapper and intellectual gent, but you cannot judge the book by
its cover!
George
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Ian Baillie
Hey Baillie,
I will nat be able to talk with you until August 8th. We are in
Gettysburg from July 29 through the 6th.
Sallie met George when she was around 12 yrs old. My Diane met me when
she was 12 years old and knew she was going to marry me at that moment.
Sally said the same thing in her books. " My Soldier, always MY
Soldier"
WOW!
Huh?
George
Old George added your website to my own as a link! We are a band of
brothers & check out the damn good music too!
George
Beautiful.....
love conquers all
and as I say Love is the glue that binds the universe together
It would seem that there may be several lifetimes together for such a
strong relationship
Have fun !
Baillie :)
Hey Baillie,
I will nat be able to talk with you until August 8th. We are in
Gettysburg from July 29 through the 6th.
Sallie met George when she was around 12 yrs old. My Diane met me when
she was 12 years old and knew she was going to marry me at that moment.
Sally said the same thing in her books. " My Soldier, always MY
Soldier"
WOW!
Huh?
George
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Ian Baillie
Thanks George will do the same!
Baillie :)
Old George added your website to my own as a link! We are a band of
brothers & check out the damn good music too!
George
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Ian Baillie
Baillie...feeling like spending a few shillings?
George
Begin forwarded message:
From: "BRI"
Date: September 15, 2005 5:17:57 PM EDT
To:
Subject: Museum Items For Sale
Dear Paul,
We have recently discontinued our "museum." We are moving everything into our retail
store. We now have excess items we can not show in our retail store. These items have been very
well taken care of and need a good home. We would love to keep these, but we just do not have
enough space. Please view the following link to see if there is anything you might be interested
in.
http://www.blockaderunner.com/other/symp.htmlWe appreciate every opportunity to provide you with our quality products at affordable prices.
Thank you,
"The gang" at Blockade Runner, INC.
Baillie,
My Lord, you knowest how to inscribe wording of great measure.
It all makes good sense. I do believe 1/2 of the mystery is solved.
The dirty details are yet to come.
Geo.
What have I done now? :)
I'm a genius but my wife doesn't believe me!!!!!!!!! :)
Baillie :)
Baillie,
My Lord, you knowest how to inscribe wording of great measure.
It all makes good sense. I do believe 1/2 of the mystery is solved.
The dirty details are yet to come.
Geo.
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Ian Baillie
Their Music is on my website along with Bobby Horton, Un-Reconstructed etc. Y'all pick your
favorites and Vote!
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From: MrGLTodd@aol.com
Hello,
I promise this will be the last time I email you about this
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Our 5 man band, The 52nd Regimental String Band, has now moved into the FINAL round of voting on the
Dixie Broadcasting Southern Heritage Music Awards. This is sort of like the "Grammys" of Southern
Music.
The last day to vote on the internet is Saturday, October 15th.
You can vote every day on every computer you can get your hands on until then.
Please email your friends and ask them to vote for us too.
It would be nice for our band to get an award after keeping alive the great music from the Civil War
era for over 15 years now. There's no money involved in the award, just the pride of accomplishment.
Their voting web site is located atwww.dixiebroadcasting.com
Thanks very much,
Greg Todd
Bandleader
The 52nd Regimental String Band
PS If you aren't familiar with the band, you can find out all about us on our web site.
www.52ndstringband.org
Love the coat of arms George
black and white very Germanic colouring......where did you find it?
Internet????????
any Latin inscriptions?
Baillie :)
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Ian Baillie
NYET!
FROM THE PICKETT SOCIETY, They offered a copy to me!
On Oct 17, 2005, at 4:20 AM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
Love the coat of arms George
black and white very Germanic colouring......where did you find it?
Internet????????
any Latin inscriptions?
Baillie :)
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Ian Baillie
It is amazing how they instinctively know you - power of the
subconscious is awesome
you have found a spiritual home with them
Baillie:)
NYET!
FROM THE PICKETT SOCIETY, They offered a copy to me!
On Oct 17, 2005, at 4:20 AM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
Love the coat of arms George
black and white very Germanic colouring......where did you find it?
Internet????????
any Latin inscriptions?
Baillie :)
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Ian Baillie
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Ian Baillie
Nyet! New York E T
knew you didn't belong in Yankeeland! :)
One of my favourites I made up is as follows
My Daddie he dun died of lead poisoning!
Why's that Mary Lou did he drink the water?
No Sirrah them Yankees they plumb shot him!!!! :)
you have to do the voices when you tell it.....
Baillie :)
Oh another great thing most wondrous
type the word - failure - into google and hit the I'm feeling lucky
button see what ya git!? :)
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Ian Baillie
Do you know Paul - the number of times I've read about Gettysburg and
looked at Old George's picture all through my life
I still find it such a privilege to have this relationship
it is absolutely amazing
and it never wears off!
I am still thinking of the time we meet up
and it is only a matter of time
I will be one hell'va party!
ian :)
Baillie
the new job is meant to be it will help fund all my subsequent
adventures! and you're top of the list!
:) :) :)
Permission Granted!
Paul
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Ian Baillie
Know you're busy and on a mission but what about Gun shop Nic and
Firework Kev
I'm sending the pics and info to Kev
reckon I have answered his who am I question and why he's been 10 times
all over the South and all
ian :)
the Baillie :)
ain't it a wonderful universe!
Permission Granted!
Paul
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Ian Baillie
Looked at the Pickett society website and the pictures of Sallie she
went on to 1931 amazing and she looked awesome in that 1910 dress
the 1880's picture when I found it a while back thought I had found
Mary Sullivan so close - and it turns out to be Sallie
real coincidence stuff going on there no bull
told Rosie today
ian
Baillie :)
Permission Granted!
Paul
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Ian Baillie#
also love your face morphing thing on you're website
really cool
I thought at first that there had been a new George picture found - one
I hadn't seen before
then I twig how it was done
damn clever stuff
so effective
plus your website is looking good
pray to the Architect you are successful!
and I'm sure you'll be
Amsterdam now there's a dam coincidence too! :)
ian :)
Permission Granted!
Paul
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Ian Baillie
They look like fun people to hang around with. You too are lucky to
have them with you. I love to make homemade fireworks. Used to set off
55 gal. drums 30 feet in the air with black powder devices!
Geo
On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
Know you're busy and on a mission but what about Gun shop Nic and
Firework Kev
I'm sending the pics and info to Kev
reckon I have answered his who am I question and why he's been 10 times
all over the South and all
ian :)
the Baillie :)
ain't it a wonderful universe!
Permission Granted!
Paul
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Ian Baillie
Carpet cardboard tube with automotive bondo on each end. In the center
of the 1/4 pound of black powder was a hairspring from old gauges I
used to work on. Stainless steel heated up quick. A positive wire
soldered on one end protruding and a negative wire for the other part
of the spiraled spring doing the same out the other end. Looked like
one of those pull crackers where you pull both strings and she goes off
in the center. 50 feet of 10 gauge copper speaker wire and hook it up
to a 12 volt auto battery and in less than one minute BOOM!!!!! And she
was up and flying big red tail behind her. All old steel 55 gal drums.
Damn near blew the top off of her. Looked like a bullet the way the one
end bulged up.! Those we the 1980's and they were crazy!
Paul
On Nov 19, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
That's my boy! :)
Baillie
They look like fun people to hang around with. You too are lucky to
have them with you. I love to make homemade fireworks. Used to set off
55 gal. drums 30 feet in the air with black powder devices!
Geo
On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
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Ian Baillie
Did you see Erik & me on the current events "The Gettysburg
Experience" 2005??
geo
On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
Looked at the Pickett society website and the pictures of Sallie she
went on to 1931 amazing and she looked awesome in that 1910 dress
the 1880's picture when I found it a while back thought I had found
Mary Sullivan so close - and it turns out to be Sallie
real coincidence stuff going on there no bull
told Rosie today
ian
Baillie :)
Permission Granted!
Paul
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Ian Baillie
Baillie,
How be it? Old Dutch Master!
Fill me in with multitudes of the greatest detail. Spare no letter or
measure of written word whenst replying! I really would like to see
the connection with you me and Amsterdam....unless its has to do with
our synchronous meeting up on this here contraption.
Paul
On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
also love your face morphing thing on you're website
really cool
I thought at first that there had been a new George picture found - one
I hadn't seen before
then I twig how it was done
damn clever stuff
so effective
plus your website is looking good
pray to the Architect you are successful!
and I'm sure you'll be
Amsterdam now there's a dam coincidence too! :)
ian :)
Permission Granted!
Paul
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Ian Baillie
Yes had a good look at school on the broadband
often do that - great pictures
ian :) Baillie
Did you see Erik & me on the current events "The Gettysburg
Experience" 2005??
geo
On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
Looked at the Pickett society website and the pictures of Sallie she
went on to 1931 amazing and she looked awesome in that 1910 dress
the 1880's picture when I found it a while back thought I had found
Mary Sullivan so close - and it turns out to be Sallie
real coincidence stuff going on there no bull
told Rosie today
ian
Baillie :)
Permission Granted!
Paul
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Ian Baillie
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Ian Baillie
Here is the book so far
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am just getting to the going back to Scotland bit and the start of the
English Civil War
you'll like the under the black flag bit - all about Germany
ian :) Baillie
Baillie,
How be it? Old Dutch Master!
Fill me in with multitudes of the greatest detail. Spare no letter or
measure of written word whenst replying! I really would like to see
the connection with you me and Amsterdam....unless its has to do with
our synchronous meeting up on this here contraption.
Paul
On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
also love your face morphing thing on you're website
really cool
I thought at first that there had been a new George picture found - one
I hadn't seen before
then I twig how it was done
damn clever stuff
so effective
plus your website is looking good
pray to the Architect you are successful!
and I'm sure you'll be
Amsterdam now there's a dam coincidence too! :)
ian :)
Permission Granted!
Paul
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Ian Baillie
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Ian Baillie
Good to see health and safety being followed!
always have a long fuse - longer the better
hot wire job impressive
shame it wasn't on video
Alice Blake's brother (from Rebel Spirit) makes cannons out of oxygen
cylinder and acetylene steel bottles
lives out in Colorado lets them off ion the desert another ex Reb I
guess!
ian :) Baillie
Carpet cardboard tube with automotive bondo on each end. In the center
of the 1/4 pound of black powder was a hairspring from old gauges I
used to work on. Stainless steel heated up quick. A positive wire
soldered on one end protruding and a negative wire for the other part
of the spiraled spring doing the same out the other end. Looked like
one of those pull crackers where you pull both strings and she goes off
in the center. 50 feet of 10 gauge copper speaker wire and hook it up
to a 12 volt auto battery and in less than one minute BOOM!!!!! And she
was up and flying big red tail behind her. All old steel 55 gal drums.
Damn near blew the top off of her. Looked like a bullet the way the one
end bulged up.! Those we the 1980's and they were crazy!
Paul
On Nov 19, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
That's my boy! :)
Baillie
They look like fun people to hang around with. You too are lucky to
have them with you. I love to make homemade fireworks. Used to set off
55 gal. drums 30 feet in the air with black powder devices!
Geo
On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
--
Ian Baillie
--
Ian Baillie
I am going off line so I can read your book. Have to lay out a big ad
for the Leader-Herald Newspaper today. Bag some Cat-Nip and then take
the family to Albany NY for the mall shopping for Christmas. So you
got t he job????? Yes???
Tell me about it when you can
Paul
I have to go to work now.
Good day Sir!
I'd like a 1860's Napoleon at the store please. Cast Bronze and
loaded for fun! I'd love to ring in the New year with a Blast!!!! Can
you imagine being able to load and fire that big beautiful monster
every-time you had a bad day. Would bring a smile to my face. Nothing
like an explosion to calm your nerves!
Paul
PS I am at the store now it's 11:am Sunday
On Nov 20, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
Good to see health and safety being followed!
always have a long fuse - longer the better
hot wire job impressive
shame it wasn't on video
Alice Blake's brother (from Rebel Spirit) makes cannons out of oxygen
cylinder and acetylene steel bottles
lives out in Colorado lets them off ion the desert another ex Reb I
guess!
ian :) Baillie
Carpet cardboard tube with automotive bondo on each end. In the
center
of the 1/4 pound of black powder was a hairspring from old gauges I
used to work on. Stainless steel heated up quick. A positive wire
soldered on one end protruding and a negative wire for the other part
of the spiraled spring doing the same out the other end. Looked like
one of those pull crackers where you pull both strings and she goes
off
in the center. 50 feet of 10 gauge copper speaker wire and hook it up
to a 12 volt auto battery and in less than one minute BOOM!!!!! And
she
was up and flying big red tail behind her. All old steel 55 gal drums.
Damn near blew the top off of her. Looked like a bullet the way the
one
end bulged up.! Those we the 1980's and they were crazy!
Paul
On Nov 19, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
That's my boy! :)
Baillie
They look like fun people to hang around with. You too are lucky to
have them with you. I love to make homemade fireworks. Used to set
off
55 gal. drums 30 feet in the air with black powder devices!
Geo
On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Dr Ian C. Baillie wrote:
--
Ian Baillie
--
Ian Baillie
My sentiments exactly dear chap! We really are the same!!!!!!!!!!
It's a shame they are so darn expensive!
wouldn't think so to see the number the National parks have so liberally
scattered around - that's why I love visiting the Battlefield always
happy when around one of those
If I hadn't have been in the cavalry I would have been in the
artillery!!!!!!!!!!
as I was this time when I shared the Officers' Mess with the 47 Field
Regiment Royal Artillery 1984 - 87
I was in my element!!!!!! love guns bigger the better and they had
Abbot self propelled which not so grand as the M108's the Yanks have are
still a useful bit of kit - can lob a shell 25 miles!
Here's mine
all from 1969 and firing the musket I made in 1967 -68!
and one of my war games taken in 1970.......
I slept with a picture of John Singleton Mosby that I had drawn over my
bed!
An oil painting of the Surrender at Appomattox and an oil portrait of
JEB Stuart I did in 1970 - hung in the lounge
Think my parent wondered what they had brought into the
world!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
ian :) THE Baillie
time to get ready for work..........
Good day Sir!
I'd like a 1860's Napoleon at the store please. Cast Bronze and
loaded for fun! I'd love to ring in the New year with a Blast!!!! Can
you imagine being able to load and fire that big beautiful monster
every-time you had a bad day. Would bring a smile to my face. Nothing
like an explosion to calm your nerves!
Paul
PS I am at the store now it's 11:am Sunday
--
Ian Baillie
Will do but got to go off to school now
ian :) Baillie
enjoy the mall! Albany NY cool!!!!!!!!!!!
I am going off line so I can read your book. Have to lay out a big ad
for the Leader-Herald Newspaper today. Bag some Cat-Nip and then take
the family to Albany NY for the mall shopping for Christmas. So you
got t he job????? Yes???
Tell me about it when you can
Paul
I have to go to work now.
--
Ian Baillie
Hi ya sent a Thanks giving to the store
thought I'd cover this base too!
Now where's dem turkies???????
Best wishes
from the Baillies' this side of the pond.....
Good day Sir!
I'd like a 1860's Napoleon at the store please. Cast Bronze and
loaded for fun! I'd love to ring in the New year with a Blast!!!! Can
you imagine being able to load and fire that big beautiful monster
every-time you had a bad day. Would bring a smile to my face. Nothing
like an explosion to calm your nerves!
Paul
PS I am at the store now it's 11:am Sunday
--
Dr Ian Baillie "two 11 inch Dalhgrens make all the difference!"
CSS Alabama joke!....... ask John
It's Thanksgiving in the CSA!
This was Sunday the 20th of November @2pm with 55 degrees F
This is today at 10 am Thursday the 24th with 25 degrees F.
This was 10 minutes ago. Its still 25 degrees and the wind is in it
too. Looks like a blizzard out here! Show these pics to Pauline &
Harriet. I am sure your daughter will start waxing her skis!
Boom! I'd rather be here in Gettysburg! 800 yards Porter, 5 second
fuse! Pour it in to em boys!
May you alwayshave:
One Rose for Unconditional Love
One Rose For Financial Wealth
One for Everlasting Happiness
One for Success
One for Knowledge
One for Beauty, inner and outer
One for Family
One for Honesty
And the last one for a long and healthy life
For every friend you send these roses to,
your wish will cometrue
This is a friend test. Send this to as many friends as you possibly can especially the person that
sent to you and if you get it back, you truly will know who your friendsare.
You have 30 seconds start.
If you send this to 2 people - it will come true in a year
5 people - in 3 months
7 people - in 1 month
10 people - in a week
15 or more-tomorrow
Baillie, Ian!!
I have now only 24 days until I fulfill a 24 year old dream. I will
again become a member of the Royal Arch Masons and begin my journey
into the Knights Templar on the 17th tag im Januar im des jahre
zweitausand und sehs! Das machts mir sehr gehrn! Ud so was gibts uber
das wasser "Atlantik" ??? Has du eine gute Wienachten?? Wir esse heute
abend auf sehs uhr. Ich bin sehr hungrig! Und das bier ist kalt und
gut! Aufwiedersehen!
Lieber george
sehr gut mein Liebe Herr General
wir sind sehr gut hier im Engeland
Frohe Weinachten
gut essen und trinken
warm auch binnen
Tannenbaum Oh Tannenbaum............... :) :) :)
ian :)
Baillie, Ian!!
I have now only 24 days until I fulfill a 24 year old dream. I will
again become a member of the Royal Arch Masons and begin my journey
into the Knights Templar on the 17th tag im Januar im des jahre
zweitausand und sehs! Das machts mir sehr gehrn! Ud so was gibts uber
das wasser "Atlantik" ??? Has du eine gute Wienachten?? Wir esse heute
abend auf sehs uhr. Ich bin sehr hungrig! Und das bier ist kalt und
gut! Aufwiedersehen!
Lieber george
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Ian Baillie
Baillie,
The idea of a Pickett encounter is superb. I still keep thinking how in the Bloody Hell did all
this happen? My God, such talk, such fantastic nonsense! A fiction Novel if it may, but truth,
far from it. Unless like You, Jeff, and I, we survived our experiences! You can never firmly
believe by just hearing and reading a persons story. You will believe it once you experience it 1st
hand. I always have been a doubting Thomas. Show me boy...I am from Missouri! But walking into a
trap such as Gettysburg was so damn strange and such an unknown territory that any simple
explanation as to my reactions that day in 2003 would have been a wild guess at what really was
taking place. 140 years of my physical absence did not alter the energy I left there for myself to
find. I always thought as I was in the 2nd year of investigation into this that GEP left something
for himself to have if and when he came back. I found it...in a second, in the battlefield(now
parking lot) in Gettysburg. Took me a year or so to realize it. I daily have a notion of self doubt
and then I think of the balcony and my emotional and mental feelings and thoughts and there in
simple terms ain't no way I could have known about the battlefield over that damn hill and my
extreme sadness would have been impossible to fake. Even if i was nuts, I am now a combatant of the
totally insane for obeying the orders of RE Lee to make that ludicrous charge and loose all my men.
Many factors play into the days events and I do now believe he was right (Lee) when he said it's all
my fault! I thought we were invincible! Yes Bobby Lee, you blew it BIG TIME! You Royally fucked
up! And we all payed the cost. And now I have repaid it in full measure! A second time around!
Thanks General Lee and that Gen. Anderson for laying low his division in their asses that day and
never joining the charge. All the emotion and hurt and loss has come and is receding finally again
and i am able to function without looking over my shoulder. What a ride this has been, let me
inform you!
Happy New Year dear friend!
A big CSA hug for you and a kiss on the cheek to Harriet and Pauline from this old fart General!
From all of Us to all of you folks!
Happy New Year!
The General & Mrs. Pickett
& family
Wow....so succinct and well put
Nothing worse than old Bobby Lee when he had his dander up
It was far easy to walk across that field than to say "I ain't going" to
Bobby Lee
Lee admitted his mistake but the Lee apologist brigade that sought to
make him into an iconic legend made it other wise........and in that
lies the emotional crime
Old Pete Longstreet took the force of their wrath as a scapegoat as did
JEB Stuart (easy to do!)
But those boys that gave their last full measure deserved better
never was the phrase "Rich man's war poor man's fight" more true!
in some ways the wiring of my books seeks to redress the balance
I always looked at George's portrait and empathised
I lost my reputation to Jamie Graham the Great Montrose.......and
history remembers him as the heroic highland gentleman and General
William Baillie as a plodding incompetent
all thoughts of Marston Moor's decisive victory over Prince Rupert
conveniently forgotten
and so Covenant General will in some small measure redress that balance
my boys foot slogged all over the Scottish highlands chasing him high
and lo
I lost 2 armies!!!!!!! To lose one is careless but two unforgivable, as
they say
But my hands were tied by Archibald "The Red Fox" Campbell my political
master and a nasty piece of work
General David Leslie with his massed cavalry were able to track Montrose
down and deliver the decisive blow at Philiphaugh - September 13 1645.
Less than one month after my defeat at Kilsyth
In the aftermath William Baillie was able to clear his name in front of
the Scottish Parliamentary Committee of Estates - he even managed to get
commended! As they could commend the other without Baillie being
included - but the mud sticks!
and all those poor boys that lay dead deserved better
it is for them that I am writing "Covenant General"
and indeed with meeting David Baxter from Gloucester two years ago they
have found me
He was a soldier captured at Dunbar and transported to Virginia as a
slave
his subsequent lives were as a Native American and then a Cowboy in the
Wild West before being born again here in England
He recognised me at my Glastonbury Talk in 2004........and we became
firm friends afterwards
in 2005 we shared time and space in a journey through the crop circles
of England
He calls me Dad! Just as the boys did - I was their General - their
Father
they were my boys........
sound familiar? !!!!!
That is why we are spiritual twins - that and the Sallie connection
uncanny but that is how it works!
Happy New Year General!
Love
ian :) the Baillie
and from all of us.......... Miss Pauline, Miss Harriet and Johnnie
(Pauline's Dad who loves with us) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Baillie,
The idea of a Pickett encounter is superb. I still keep thinking how in the
Bloody Hell did all this happen? My God, such talk, such fantastic nonsense!
A fiction Novel if it may, but truth, far from it. Unless like You, Jeff, and
I, we survived our experiences! You can never firmly believe by just hearing
and reading a persons story. You will believe it once you experience it 1st
hand. I always have been a doubting Thomas. Show me boy...I am from Missouri!
But walking into a trap such as Gettysburg was so damn strange and such an
unknown territory that any simple explanation as to my reactions that day in
2003 would have been a wild guess at what really was taking place. 140 years of
my physical absence did not alter the energy I left there for myself to find. I
always thought as I was in the 2nd year of investigation into this that GEP left
something for himself to have if and when he came back. I found it...in a
second, in the battlefield(now parking lot) in Gettysburg. Took me a year or so
to realize it. I daily have a notion of self doubt and then I think of the
balcony and my emotional and mental feelings and thoughts and there in simple
terms ain't no way I could have known about the battlefield over that damn hill
and my extreme sadness would have been impossible to fake. Even if i was nuts, I
am now a combatant of the totally insane for obeying the orders of RE Lee to
make that ludicrous charge and loose all my men. Many factors play into the
days events and I do now believe he was right (Lee) when he said it's all my
fault! I thought we were invincible! Yes Bobby Lee, you blew it BIG TIME! You
Royally fucked up! And we all payed the cost. And now I have repaid it in full
measure! A second time around!
Thanks General Lee and that Gen. Anderson for laying low his division in their
asses that day and never joining the charge. All the emotion and hurt and loss
has come and is receding finally again and i am able to function without looking
over my shoulder. What a ride this has been, let me inform you!
Happy New Year dear friend!
A big CSA hug for you and a kiss on the cheek to Harriet and Pauline from this
old fart General!
From all of Us to all of you folks!
Happy New Year!
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The General & Mrs. Pickett
& family
--
Ian Baillie
Hey Baillie,
Been real busy at the store with change over from Christmas to
Valentine's Day. I've been still up & down no real way to track it
yet. Some folks are just for the food items and others just for the
Confederate items. But I at least have one sale every day. And I hear
thats real good for being open only 8 months. Some days its 30 people
and others one or two. Bit I wanted to let you know that next Tuesday
Jan 17th a day after my 181st Birthday, I will again take my oath as a
Royal Arch Mason finally and on next Friday January 20th stand on my
grave in Richmond Virginia. Amazing, I wonder if Miss LaSalle will get
triggered as she was there when they buried my dead ass in October of
1875 and she is buried next to me there as well. Go figure I die on
July 30th and they wait until a day in October to bury me. May be
that's why I was born in October and on my confirmation name ( Vincent
DePaul) Saints day of becoming the Patron Saint of the Virginia Diocese
in the 1800's. Also I died at that Hospital in Norfolk Va. "St.
Vincent DePaul).....Ouch!
Then on March 11th I will take my degrees as a Knight's Templar and
be what I once was. Not bad, not bad at all! Virginia will be a lot
of pictures you can bet on that! I will have Erik shoot one of myself
& Diane at the Graveside for your use and many more to view.
More later I have to go cook supper! Have a good night and a great
Sunday dear friend!
Paul
Hi George
Guessed you were busy...........post Christmas and all that
Things have settled down real good here.......all is well
Teaching History at school and Religious Studies - Rites of Passage
took my Native American dream catcher (I made) in to introduce the topic
- a metaphor for life much as you describe eloquently below
the web of life and the universe - ain't it great to have your horizons
expanded such as we have?!
I can see my web of interaction so clearly - all the connections over
millennia - time and death are the biggest illusions ever Penn and
Teller could never compete with that act!!!!!!!!
A Knight Templar too well done Old Boy! Steeped in history and legend -
Col Massa Bob Anderson of the 5th Georgia was a Grand Commander of the
Order and Savannah Police Chief after the shin dig was over.....
I look forward to your Field report of the impending return to ground
zero - poor George did they put him on ice for those missing months?
My experience was not what I expected - it was one of euphoria at having
well and truly beaten the system - and having completed the journey to
stand there - then as I noticed my dear sister Hettie next to me that
was the moment I felt tears well up in my eyes - instant emotion
my favourite sister lying next to me and she having died quite some
years early than me too
Time was short that day........ but I returned with Roger just before we
left Griffin and took pictures of my memory-a-bilia coming full circle
as you can see in Rebel Spirit
I then rubbed the red Georgia clay from my grave into my cavalry kepis -
inside and out so that it gave a red dust sheen
I had come home ashes to ashes, dust to dust
I can see the kepi now just up on my shelf to the right of this
computer, a priceless reminder now personalise of our doomed cause in
which we lost all........
Do I regret anything.......nah!!!!! I would do it all again - take the
pain and loneliness, the tears and laughter
for they are precious memories of a civilization - gone with the wind
Now I'm railroading.......it's 1880 and the west is truly wild - then
nation is rebuilt and expanding. I'm heading for Americus Georgia a
civil engineer working for the Central of Georgia RR. I love those
trains "The General" - it is doing track laying duty before finding a
new lease of life and national fame in the 90's
I'm doing my bit to build a great nation - I'm proud to be American at
this time - a time of boundless opportunity and invention
I'm just two stops away from Andersonville Camp at Sumter - I go there
for walks to remember the dark side of war and those Yankee boys that
starved - it draws me
And so as I left my grave in Oak Hill cemetery Griffin Georgia in the
bright February sunshine of 2001 Roger and I drove to Andersonville
The birds don't sing there even now.....I was glad to get away from its
oppression yet determined to pay my respects
Then as I drove I felt compelled to swing left off the highway into
Sumter a collection of clapboard houses amongst some shady tress - where
the Railroad depot was. Some children played and I did a U turn and a
pronounced sense of de ja vu hit me as we drove slowly out.......
it was only after I returned to England I realise that I had walked that
walk before.............
amazing
Well better go mein alte komaraden
Tschuss liebe Herr General
and all the best from this side of the pond
Your Baillie :)
Hey Baillie,
Been real busy at the store with change over from Christmas to
Valentine's Day. I've been still up & down no real way to track it
yet. Some folks are just for the food items and others just for the
Confederate items. But I at least have one sale every day. And I hear
thats real good for being open only 8 months. Some days its 30 people
and others one or two. Bit I wanted to let you know that next Tuesday
Jan 17th a day after my 181st Birthday, I will again take my oath as a
Royal Arch Mason finally and on next Friday January 20th stand on my
grave in Richmond Virginia. Amazing, I wonder if Miss LaSalle will get
triggered as she was there when they buried my dead ass in October of
1875 and she is buried next to me there as well. Go figure I die on
July 30th and they wait until a day in October to bury me. May be
that's why I was born in October and on my confirmation name ( Vincent
DePaul) Saints day of becoming the Patron Saint of the Virginia Diocese
in the 1800's. Also I died at that Hospital in Norfolk Va. "St.
Vincent DePaul).....Ouch!
Then on March 11th I will take my degrees as a Knight's Templar and
be what I once was. Not bad, not bad at all! Virginia will be a lot
of pictures you can bet on that! I will have Erik shoot one of myself
& Diane at the Graveside for your use and many more to view.
More later I have to go cook supper! Have a good night and a great
Sunday dear friend!
Paul
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--
Ian Baillie
Hi George
Guessed you were busy...........post Christmas and all that
Things have settled down real good here.......all is well
Teaching History at school and Religious Studies - Rites of Passage
took my Native American dream catcher (I made) in to introduce the topic
- a metaphor for life much as you describe eloquently below
the web of life and the universe - ain't it great to have your horizons
expanded such as we have?!
I can see my web of interaction so clearly - all the connections over
millennia - time and death are the biggest illusions ever Penn and
Teller could never compete with that act!!!!!!!!
A Knight Templar too well done Old Boy! Steeped in history and legend -
Col Massa Bob Anderson of the 5th Georgia was a Grand Commander of the
Order and Savannah Police Chief after the shin dig was over.....
I look forward to your Field report of the impending return to ground
zero - poor George did they put him on ice for those missing months?
My experience was not what I expected - it was one of euphoria at having
well and truly beaten the system - and having completed the journey to
stand there - then as I noticed my dear sister Hettie next to me that
was the moment I felt tears well up in my eyes - instant emotion
my favourite sister lying next to me and she having died quite some
years early than me too
Time was short that day........ but I returned with Roger just before we
left Griffin and took pictures of my memory-a-bilia coming full circle
as you can see in Rebel Spirit
I then rubbed the red Georgia clay from my grave into my cavalry kepis -
inside and out so that it gave a red dust sheen
I had come home ashes to ashes, dust to dust
I can see the kepi now just up on my shelf to the right of this
computer, a priceless reminder now personalise of our doomed cause in
which we lost all........
Do I regret anything.......nah!!!!! I would do it all again - take the
pain and loneliness, the tears and laughter
for they are precious memories of a civilization - gone with the wind
Now I'm railroading.......it's 1880 and the west is truly wild - then
nation is rebuilt and expanding. I'm heading for Americus Georgia a
civil engineer working for the Central of Georgia RR. I love those
trains "The General" - it is doing track laying duty before finding a
new lease of life and national fame in the 90's
I'm doing my bit to build a great nation - I'm proud to be American at
this time - a time of boundless opportunity and invention
I'm just two stops away from Andersonville Camp at Sumter - I go there
for walks to remember the dark side of war and those Yankee boys that
starved - it draws me
And so as I left my grave in Oak Hill cemetery Griffin Georgia in the
bright February sunshine of 2001 Roger and I drove to Andersonville
The birds don't sing there even now.....I was glad to get away from its
oppression yet determined to pay my respects
Then as I drove I felt compelled to swing left off the highway into
Sumter a collection of clapboard houses amongst some shady tress - where
the Railroad depot was. Some children played and I did a U turn and a
pronounced sense of de ja vu hit me as we drove slowly out.......
it was only after I returned to England I realise that I had walked that
walk before.............
amazing
Well better go mein alte komaraden
Tschuss liebe Herr General
and all the best from this side of the pond
Your Baillie :)
Hey Baillie,
Been real busy at the store with change over from Christmas to
Valentine's Day. I've been still up & down no real way to track it
yet. Some folks are just for the food items and others just for the
Confederate items. But I at least have one sale every day. And I hear
thats real good for being open only 8 months. Some days its 30 people
and others one or two. Bit I wanted to let you know that next Tuesday
Jan 17th a day after my 181st Birthday, I will again take my oath as a
Royal Arch Mason finally and on next Friday January 20th stand on my
grave in Richmond Virginia. Amazing, I wonder if Miss LaSalle will get
triggered as she was there when they buried my dead ass in October of
1875 and she is buried next to me there as well. Go figure I die on
July 30th and they wait until a day in October to bury me. May be
that's why I was born in October and on my confirmation name ( Vincent
DePaul) Saints day of becoming the Patron Saint of the Virginia Diocese
in the 1800's. Also I died at that Hospital in Norfolk Va. "St.
Vincent DePaul).....Ouch!
Then on March 11th I will take my degrees as a Knight's Templar and
be what I once was. Not bad, not bad at all! Virginia will be a lot
of pictures you can bet on that! I will have Erik shoot one of myself
& Diane at the Graveside for your use and many more to view.
More later I have to go cook supper! Have a good night and a great
Sunday dear friend!
Paul
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--
Ian Baillie
Hi Paul/George Sir!
Have spent my free time looking at air fares today
British Airways fly to Newark NJ no probs but the price jumps real high
over half term Feb 11 until Feb 19th
Best I can do is £808 pounds for Harriet and me thats $1200!
if I could come back on 20th it drops to £400 $600
it's a real racket here
I also look at Belleayre skiing area in the Catskills as H could go
skiing
how far is that from you straight up the 87 and turn left????
Is it possible to drive daily from Amsterdam to Belleayre or is that
just not poss?????
anyways I am trying to get Stateside..........asap! :)
Good news for Harriet - the Church Schools' Trust is doing a two week
Pilgrimage to the Holy land April 3 and Harriet can go for £250 in stead
of £1245! As it is subsides - the Retired Ex Archbishop of Canterbury
Lord Carey is leading it....... He's our Patron
so Harriet has signed up for that jaunt! A once in a lifetime chance to
experience something amazing......
well that's the news front here - mild weather from the Atlantic making
it wet and windy here
Thinking of you........ and your impending adventures
ian :) Baillie
--
Ian Baillie
Hey Baillie,
If you are planning a trip in Feb as hinted to, thats Valentines week.
I am not able to leave the store because of a tremendous amount of
work required by me to help Diane with the preparation of Florals for
the Lovers Event! Its a VERY big Holiday for Flowers and I am not seen
in the light of day after working my straight 8 hrs at the newspaper
until the 15th. Then its a major slow down. And since its during the
week (Tuesday) its bigger than usual. Weekends its out to dinner and
skip the flowers. This year its flowers & candy. The rest of the week
I will be working until 5pm each night...so let me know early on old
boy! I would really hate to miss the chance to spend some quality time
with you and be stuck working. I can adjust a schedule accordingly if
I know when you will be in country. Now back to packing!!!
Thank You!
Paul
Understand busy here too - don't hold your breath as they wham up the
prices that week ......
Scotland lots more promising - nobody wants to go there half term week
and if the snow is OK we can ski at Aviemore
It's all supply and demand - BUt I will make it - promise
ian :)
meantime enjoy Richmond!!!!!!!! Especially the museum of the
Confederacy
Hey Baillie,
If you are planning a trip in Feb as hinted to, thats Valentines week.
I am not able to leave the store because of a tremendous amount of
work required by me to help Diane with the preparation of Florals for
the Lovers Event! Its a VERY big Holiday for Flowers and I am not seen
in the light of day after working my straight 8 hrs at the newspaper
until the 15th. Then its a major slow down. And since its during the
week (Tuesday) its bigger than usual. Weekends its out to dinner and
skip the flowers. This year its flowers & candy. The rest of the week
I will be working until 5pm each night...so let me know early on old
boy! I would really hate to miss the chance to spend some quality time
with you and be stuck working. I can adjust a schedule accordingly if
I know when you will be in country. Now back to packing!!!
Thank You!
Paul
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Ian Baillie
In Gettysburg in the museum they have this on display. How thy got it,
I do not know. Is it original, that I do not know. I like the design
so maybe it was mine!
Paul
Wow...looks like a Masonic gauntlet - that would be very appropriate!
with two hands the other way - yes that is very George......
probably Sally's!
Well some news here - we are off to Norway skiing..........mainly due
to price
and chasing my Viking routes lot happening Norwegian wise since last
summer
half term is mad price wise here everything jacked up 3 or 4 times
normal
lots of our pupils are going next week as it is still cheap....
so I have book a cheap flight to Oslo and Harriet and I are driving 4
hours up to Hemsedal where we went skiing two years ago
managed to get the last room in the hotel we stayed at
also we can stay the night with a crop circle lady friend of mine that
is helping me trace my Viking memory
991AD Olaf Tryggvasson etc....... I have identified the place I used to
live at Balestrand - literally Baillie beach!
had to be didn't it - !!!!!!!!! the pictures fit my memory but I will
need to go there to feel it.........
I ended up in Iceland around 1000AD after the battle of Svolda Fjord
where Olaf and the rest of us got jumped by the Danes and Swedes
combined - Olaf leapt overboard to avoid capture when all was lost
I am pretty sure I had my own long ship and was a chieftain if not Olaf
himself...........! small population no more than 200 000 souls so it
is possible.......
certainly the Christianity bit bringing it to Iceland figures large in
my memory......... hang over from my Roman circus days!
so the universe beckons......... and I have been working with Natalie
my art colleague from school she is real Viking......
very powerful lady
has a memory of a Mid west boy that got killed in world war 1 as a dough
boy from Ohio or Indiana... she loves dungerees and has a straw hat she
wears
we bonded straight off with the merger due to the American connection
and the Viking connection I have just drawn her as I see her in 991AD
she has a book on Norway displayed prominently in the class room so I
picked that up pretty quickly
here she is Wednesday in the staff room the outfit is very chain mail
and tunic
here is how I see her 991AD
I based it on a photo I took of her last Friday.......
I will see what her emotional reaction is to it tomorrow
I will paint it to.....for added impact! but I like it I have captured
her to a tee!
fun stuff!!!!!!!!!!
whole new science going on!!!!!!!!!
ian :)
Show Erik he'll like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Gettysburg in the museum they have this on display. How thy got it,
I do not know. Is it original, that I do not know. I like the design
so maybe it was mine!
Paul
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This one has always got me a going! It was a Blue Bell Melody in 1904
and I cannot remember the name of the chap that stole the melody for
the NaZi's .... its been to damn long but I do love the melody ...how
about du?
Lieber Geo
Spiele das sehr viele! Das machts mir sehr gehrn Un gemultlich!
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Ja gern!
What incredibly stirring words.......... sums up the mood and attitude
of the Third Reich and the belief in a German future that would last
1000 years - the new golden age
a powerful tapping into the ancient German psyche and imagery
I resonate with that to as it is my world - I was a Saxon around 600AD -
the wolf culture - Wulflingas - we came to England from the Elbe and
Saxony
we were full of such myth and lore - going back to a time when we
defeated 3 Roman legions in the Teuterburger wald 9AD - Arminius
(Hermann the German as we called him in the 1980's)
spelt it wrong but........ no time to correct before going to school!
THe Rhine figures large in my memory too always felt at home
there....... always travel up and down it when ever I can from the mid
70's until present day
last time was New Year 2002 when I took H skiing in Austria stayed at
Bingen over nigh both ways
Rhine was up to the hotel windows - sat having breakfast with it lapping
against me! surreal tops of the ferry boat ticket office poking out
above the water level
love German Castles German tanks German wine and German blonde women!
so yes - that song does it for me.......... isn't it amazing that the
universe has placed you so precisely here and now so that you can
experience the past of your soul memory!!!!!!!!!!!
What a truly astounding mechanism!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are in precisely the right place at the right time to experience all
your memories!
that is the true miracle !!!!!!!!!!
ian :)
Panzer Division Wiking!
oder
Adolf Hitler Liebstandart
Das Reich
Gross Deutschland
Totenkopf!!!!!!!!
Waffen SS Teutonic Knights etc...........very powerful imagery!
I built a model Panzer Army in 1984 to 1987 whilst in Germany ! Dave
the German language teacher provided the Americans........ and we fought
many war games over a bottle of Appelkorn! late into the night!
time for school...........
This one has always got me a going! It