Appomattox Blues - Historical Role Play

[battlebauble]

At the previous meeting in Mexico, Lee chastised Grant for reporting to him all dirty and unkept. An ironic twist of fate. I would dearly love to know what was discussed when Lee met Lincoln. No record was made of that meeting. Love this, Pappy!

[PappyStu]

Yes to be a fly on that wall...

[LeSaMilano]

well done Stu, nicley pu together

and them there's some fancy footwork on the photography - Gert was *that* close to Honest Abe!

[PappyStu]

They were very high resolution files which allowed me to target regions and pan through them effectively...

[phekwig]

Nice! I will be checking out the attachments but I have a call to go to now :)

[PappyStu]

Yea I was on graves when I saw this in my mail LOL

[bearchay889]

Very well done I live around ppl that are still fighting this war to this day i myself am conflicted for i love the heart ,the kindness ,the love that can be abundant in the south,but alas i dispise the ingnorance ,the hate,and the naivety of the ppl to follow some very courrupt ppl but i guess everywhere is like that and you just don't see it unless you are there.

I will try my best to do one of these this has inspired me. You might get a kick out of the alt-history author harry turttledove

[PappyStu]

I think there are some serious misconceptions many folks have about peoples perspectives back then... I have read my family's and others correspondence of the time and their thoughts are not reflected in todays media / acedamia...

[bearchay889]

yeah it's a muddled mess my area didn't even hardly fight in the war though it did supply both sides with iron ore at different times.

[TamHickey67]

Excellent historical video, and the sidebar has a wonderful feel to it too. Bittersweet, one might say.

[PappyStu]

If history were not repleat with the bad as well as good what would we learn from it... Though I suppose I time we wonder if we do...

Hope this new year's day finds you and the misses most excellent...

[Blinkazoid]

Well done Stu and Gert!!!

[PappyStu]

Her eye is undeniable... This is unrequited sense beyond instruction which I find difficult not to covet...

Very good to hear from you on this day of a new year...

[kalacaw]

"Abandon your animosities, and make your sons Americans."

[PappyStu]

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." D.H. Lawrence

Very good to see thee Lass... It has been too long and I look upon it as a gift on the advent of this new year...

I hope it finds you well...

[GoneIsGone]

One of my favorite books is "Killer Angels". Have you ever read it? That's what this vid reminded me of. Thanks Pappy, from your, who was born and raised in Civil War country.

[PappyStu]

My great grandfather Ezer from Miss. was left for dead at Knoxville. Rescued by a Yankee girl who he later married and they moved to the Indian Nations then on the OR and ID... The other side came out of the Carolinas...

[PappyStu]

Oh I forgot to answer your question... no never read that...

[jtls8]

5*****

[PappyStu]

Thank you... History is few folks cup of tea shall we say...

[IXGertXI]

I like tea...and history. ;)

[PappyStu]

Make mine whisky... vbg

I do not expect overwhelming response to this challenge... I never harbored illusions in this regard... This is Tuberland afterall...

[wildwyckedknight]

Very nice Video.

Do you ever wonder what the USA would be like in 2010, had the South been victorious?

[PappyStu]

Considering the challenges faced by a unified nation since then I doubt there would be a USA... One of several totalitarian regimes since then might very well still be in place...

[wildwyckedknight]

Interesting theory. I've asked myself the same question before. My own belief, is that the USA would still exist. However, It would be a very different country. Slavery of course would eventually been wiped out, it would just have taken a few more years.

Guess we will never know. ;-)

[PappyStu]

I have no doubt that slavery in its past form would live only on borrowed time...

I might argue that we have re-invented it in perhaps an even more insidious one...

I do believe had not the Union been preserved the balance of the world might have suffered far worse injustice...

I think we can only conclude from history that nothing is permanent and change might be unforseeable for those of us from the past...

[IXGertXI]

Well done, Pappy. So glad to be of service. You did justice to my pics. It's nice to see them brought to life.

Happy New Year. xxx

[PappyStu]

Your stills were imeasurably invaluable to making this even have any geuine air

stuart_keck: in my next post I shall speel even butter

[MrRandomWritings]

I didn't think you were old enough to have photographed Abe Lincoln - I'm impressed!

[IXGertXI]

I think I look fabulous for my age! Seriously.

xx

[PappyStu]

Can't help hear Mr. Crystal when you say

"You look Fabulous..."

[audionautix]

Wow. Excellent stuff in the sidebar. I didn't care much for history when I was in school but now I'm older it's easy to imagine the living breathing human beings that history is made up of. How they faced the same struggles to raise families and make ends meet and find a place in the world. They were not so different than us in the things that truly matter.

[PappyStu]

No doubt! I have been a history nut for many many years and your comment goes right to the heart of my sentiments in this regard... I have a conviction the secret to our success lay in the careful, thoughtful examination of our past... And I have spent a great deal of time learning my anchestors part in it... good and bad...

I hope to incourage some here to take up a role play video attempt as putting ourselves in their place has value to each of us personally....

[PappyStu]

perhaps even speel right too

he he

[BasicModelling]

I once attempted to sing like a Banana.. and who doesn't like a Banana??

Apart from OhCurt? :) :)

[PappyStu]

Are there any historical Bannaners?

[BasicModelling]

There's the Red Bannaner that was hoisted over the Reichstag in 1945..

..but most Bannaners tend to be hysterical, not historical!

And I did not intend to mock the historical value of this video.. which was conveyed in a way that took us back in time to the Appomatox Court House..

[BasicModelling]

..we just had to close our eyes and we were there..

and by we I mean me and myself.. :)

[PappyStu]

That must have bean very depressing for you... HE HE HE

[PappyStu]

Well then I will await patiently your restorical recreation of the red bananer singing and I will MOCK this videos value for you while I wait... With my wine in hand of course... he he he

Cheers on this most auspisious day my good friend...

if that's how to speel that...