DOCSLIB.ORG

Osjetea Briggs (Limestone and Anderson [Osheetal Counties) DATE: June 21 1988

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Osjetea Briggs (Limestone and Anderson [Osheetal Counties) DATE: June 21 1988 THE INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM INTERVIEW WITH: Osjetea Briggs (Limestone and Anderson [Osheetal Counties) DATE: June 21 1988 PLACE: Palestine, Texas INTERVIEWER: Joan Ballard JB: Osjetea, we've been talking about so much ahead of time, let's go on now. OB: Since we were talking about Limestone County, where I grew up, actually, this Saturday, June 25, will be the yearly memorial service at Old Bethel Cemetery. It's down in the southeast corner of the county. They are also going to have a reunion of the Kickapoo School, so-called, because my grandfather was a Kickapoo Choctaw Indian. That Kickapoo was a smaller tribe of the big tribe. And because of his helping to build that school, they always referred to it as Kickapoo. And there has not been any school in that o ld two-room schoolhouse since 1935. Even the building is gone. But three years ago somebody said: Let's try to have a reunion together with the memorial service at the cemetery because everybody who has loved ones in that cemetery also went to that school and nearly everybody bur ied in that cemetery went to that school, for that ma tter . So we called a reunion. We called it The Kickapoo Legion, because that means the survivors, you know. And , now there hadn't been any school there since 1935 and this was 1985, fifty years later. BRIGGS 2 OB: Thirty four students and one teacher showed up at that memorial service. So we continue to have it each year. Now it is a memorial service and the Kickapoo Legion has their yearly get-together, right out in the hot sun . Well , we do have a little arbor to keep some of the sun off. We have the same old church benches that once happened to be in the old church that has long since been torn down . The church that was at the graveyard. We have those benches under this arbor and the survivors of that area come to pay tribute to their dead. We have a little program, have much singing, spread dinner under the trees on long tables; we have to make the table longer each year. We always have it on the fourth Saturday of June and it's really fascinating. If you could just have a story of all of those people. Some of them are descendants of the survivors of Fort Parker , which is a l so not too far away as the crow flies from where the cemetery and old school once stood. And, the Plummers , especially , were my cousins. This was Rachel Pluruner's family who was also kidnapped along with Cynthia Ann Parker. Anyway, it's the story, even the Plummer descendants. It's real interesting. And I'm the president of the Old Bethel Cemetery Association and the Kickapoo School group now. Of course, I don't know how many years, twenty years I guess, that I've been the president of the Association. This means everybody that has kin that are buried in the cemetery is a member of the Old Bethel Cemetery Association. This is a perpetual loving care thing. This is something the big BRIGGS 3 OB: cities don't have. What we all did was to pool some money and put it in a trust fund that would draw interest and keep up the cemetery with the interest that we have on the money. This way, the principal can never be touched. And even if some of the younger people don't keep on meeting and keep on carrying on the tradition that we have set a hundred years ago, well, the money will be there so that it can be handled and the cemetery is always immaculate. JB: It will always still be maintained. OB: But it will be maintained by the fact that we all pooled our money to provide a trust fund for that purpose and that purpose alone. It's quite strange how we select our board of directors. When somebody dies, they have told somebody who they want to take their place. You don't choose somebody because they are popular, you choose them because you know they'll be there and that they will do what they are supposed to do as long as they live. If they get down sick or something and want to pass it on to somebody while they are still living well they just say: I've chosen to fill my shoes so-and-so, and that person is the trustee in their stead. And it depends on how many graves you have, how interested they think you are. If you have enough graves they know you'll be there, don't you see. A person who just had one grave out there, well, they might think, well, they might be inclined to forget old Cousin So-and-so, you know, but they wouldn't forget if they had all their kin there, or most o f their kin. It is really something to know BRIGGS 4 OB: that this still exists in this world, perpetual loving care. JB: Are most of them there the Indian descendants? OB: No, no, no, no. I'm the only Indian there. My grandfather was the only Indian in the ... Well, now, there is another family that has a little bit of Indian heritage. I did't know just how much . But I'm the only one walking around in braids, let's put it that way. But, it's not a bunch of Indians, no. There all kinds and creeds, and colors. JB: Just local residents, or citizens. OB: People that live in the area. JB: Who lived in this area. OB: A lot of them are. Some of them come from across the United States to be there at that time. They come from every place. I would never have dreamed we'd have had thirty-four people that once went to that school, plus a teacher, but we did. That's a picture of the old church. It was a Methodist church. But people of all denominations come to the •.. our song books carry hymns from all denominations. And everybody sings. They don't sing well but they sing loud and we enjoy it very much. And it's hot, very hot, and everybody brings food, iced tea, and everybody enjoys it. And you've never seen so much hugging in all your life. That's enough about that. I get carried away because it has been so much a part of my life - the cemetery has. JB: Right. BRIGGS 5 OB: And the inspiration that my grandpar ents, these were my maternal grandparents that were the Indians, and had a lot of influence. JB: And that is where you first went to school, was this school? OB: No, I didn't go to Kickapoo School, because the river was the boundary line. I was in the Groesbeck Independent School District. I first went to Groesbeck School. I didn't go to Kickapoo School, but my mother did and my older brothers and sisters did, and all of my cousins did, most of them. But, because Mama went there and my two older sisters and my older brother went there, well, I felt a special kinship, and I have visited in the school. We always got Washington's Birthday off at my school and Mama would load us kids up and take us over to Old Bethel so we could spend the day at Old Bethel School with my cousins, so we would know how important that school was to her. They would seat seven rows of children like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades in one room and then the high school grades in the other room . Mama could just tell you what date anything happened. When we'd be studying our lessons and say something about what happened such-and-such a time, she'd say: Oh, yes, that happened so-and-so. And I'd say: Mama, how in the world can you remember the events in history so well. She'd say: Well, after you sit there in that one room and hear it, for instance at the 7th grade, well you hear it for seven years before you get to it. BRIGGS 6 OB: You hear what the teacher is teaching the seventh graders down on the end of the line, don't you know. By the time you get there you already know it. Or the grades in between. You know it beforehand and then you hear it reviewed in the years afterwards, don't you see. Say, for instance, the third grade. Before you get to be a third grader, you have already memorized it and then from there on you hear it every year, you know. So naturally it stays with you. JB: It's reinforced. OB: You get to be that is education at its very best. JB: It sure is. OB: At its very best. Now, in Groesbeck, since we knew so well - we had visited Old Bethel School where MaMa went to school, we knew so well. And then we went to Groesbeck School . This is where we could be warm through and through in the wintertime. Didn't even have to have your coat on. At home all the heat we had was the fireplace, in this old ramshackled house. And we'd sit in front of the fireplace and our legs would burn and our back would freeze.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Fear of Music
    Fear of Music ----------- I Zimbra ----------- GADJI BERI BIMBA CLANDRIDI LAULI LONNI CADORI GADJAM A BIM BERI GLASSALA GLANDRIDE E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA BIM BLASSA GALASSASA ZIMBRABIM BLASSA GLALLASSASA ZIMBRABIM A BIM BERI GLASSALA GRANDRID E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA GADJI BERI BIMBA GLANDRIDI LAULI LONNI CADORA GADJAM A BIM BERI GLASSASA GLANDRID E GLASSALA TUFFM I ZIMBRA ------- Mind ------- Time won't change you Money won't change you I haven't got the faintest idea Everything seems to be up in the air at this time I need something you change your mind 1 / 12 Fear of Music Drugs won't change you Religion won't change you Science won't change you Looks like I can't change you I try to talk to you, to make things clear but you're not even listening to me... And it comes directly from my heart to you... I need something to change your mind. ------- Paper ------- Hold the paper up to the light (some rays pass right through) Expose yourself out there for a minute (some rays pass right through) Take a little rest when the rays pass through Take a little time off when the rays pass through Go ahead and mis it up...Go ahead and tie it up In a long distance telephone call Hold on to that paper Hold on to that paper Hold on becuase it's been taken care of Hold on to that paper 2 / 12 Fear of Music See if you can fit it on the paper See if you can get it on the paper See if you can fit it on the paper See if you can get it on the paper Had a love affair but it was only paper (some rays they pass right through) Had a lot of fun, could have been
    [Show full text]
  • Karaoke Mietsystem Songlist
    Karaoke Mietsystem Songlist Ein Karaokesystem der Firma Showtronic Solutions AG in Zusammenarbeit mit Karafun. Karaoke-Katalog Update vom: 13/10/2020 Singen Sie online auf www.karafun.de Gesamter Katalog TOP 50 Shallow - A Star is Born Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver Skandal im Sperrbezirk - Spider Murphy Gang Griechischer Wein - Udo Jürgens Verdammt, Ich Lieb' Dich - Matthias Reim Dancing Queen - ABBA Dance Monkey - Tones and I Breaking Free - High School Musical In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley Angels - Robbie Williams Hulapalu - Andreas Gabalier Someone Like You - Adele 99 Luftballons - Nena Tage wie diese - Die Toten Hosen Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden Ohne Dich (schlaf' ich heut' nacht nicht ein) - You Are the Reason - Calum Scott Perfect - Ed Sheeran Münchener Freiheit Stand by Me - Ben E. King Im Wagen Vor Mir - Henry Valentino And Uschi Let It Go - Idina Menzel Can You Feel The Love Tonight - The Lion King Atemlos durch die Nacht - Helene Fischer Roller - Apache 207 Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys Über Sieben Brücken Musst Du Gehn - Peter Maffay Summer Of '69 - Bryan Adams Cordula grün - Die Draufgänger Tequila - The Champs ...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears All of Me - John Legend Barbie Girl - Aqua Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol My Way - Frank Sinatra Hallelujah - Alexandra Burke Aber Bitte Mit Sahne - Udo Jürgens Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Wannabe - Spice Girls Schrei nach Liebe - Die Ärzte Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley Country Roads - Hermes House Band Westerland - Die Ärzte Warum hast du nicht nein gesagt - Roland Kaiser Ich war noch niemals in New York - Ich War Noch Marmor, Stein Und Eisen Bricht - Drafi Deutscher Zombie - The Cranberries Niemals In New York Ich wollte nie erwachsen sein (Nessajas Lied) - Don't Stop Believing - Journey EXPLICIT Kann Texte enthalten, die nicht für Kinder und Jugendliche geeignet sind.
    [Show full text]
  • Issue 366 Beards Are Back: No Shave November Growth Is Undeniable – and We’Re Not Just Talking Facial Hair
    October 7, 2013, Issue 366 Beards Are Back: No Shave November Growth is undeniable – and we’re not just talking facial hair. No Shave November went from raising $38,000 its first year to more than $138,000 last year. For 2013, the buzzword is “teams” as stations, labels, companies and artists try to get the largest teams and biggest donations possible on behalf of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. And one station new to the NSN fold is taking things even further with a promotion that could become a model for others. For all the bald-faced rookies out there, the NSN concept is pretty simple: Stop shaving for the month of November and donate the money you might have spent on razors, shaving cream, stitches and more to St. Jude – at least Freeze Frame: Warner Bros./WMN’s Blake Shelton winds $30. The homepage is www.stjude.org/ down his Ten Times Crazier Tour in Tulsa Friday night (10/4) noshavenovember. The emphasis on teams with a surprise plaque presentation commemorating platinum is an outgrowth of last year’s event, where sales of his album Based On A True Story.... Pictured (l-r) are KTGX/Tulsa’s JJ Ryan, KWEN/Tulsa’s Matt Bradley and Karla Keifer competition between artist teams, label Cantrell, Shelton, WMN’s John Esposito, KVOO/Tulsa’s Crash Thompson teams and others led to some pretty big Poteet and Dave Austin, KJKE/Oklahoma City’s Owen Pickard donations and lots of social media traffic. and WMN’s Mark Niederhauser. The 30-date tour wrapped in Team Thompson Square took honors as the top artist Wichita the following night (10/5).
    [Show full text]
  • Aug. ‘13 Texas Swing School, Learning to Play Texas Extra Swing, Known to Some As the Original Texas Music
    In each room of the performing arts center in Gainesville — about 70 miles north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex — you’ll find young musicians of all types stringing their fiddles, strumming their guitars and belting out tunes. They’re all participating in the Big Aug. ‘13 Texas Swing School, learning to play Texas extra Swing, known to some as the original Texas music. “It was a joining of two genres of swing music,” says executive director Dave Alexan- der, who founded the school. “Big band music news calendar releases q&a and cowboy music, which was fiddle based.” click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read Don’t be fooled, though: these students are Students attending the Big Texas Swing School range from no amateurs. “I can play the fiddle, guitar, 11 to 17 years old. mandolin, drums and piano,” Colby Sheppard School of Swing says. “I can play a lot.” The students range in included legendary pickers Merle Travis and Up in Gainesville, Texas, apparently, Bob Wills age from 11 to 17, and, like Sheppard, most play Charlie Monroe. He also recorded at Motown is still the king. Texas Swing may be a genre several instruments. They work in different Records and played with Ray Price and Merle that’s a century old, but now it’s gaining groups throughout the day. Then, once well re- Haggard before teaming up with Nelson from popularity with a new generation through a hearsed, they come together to make one big 1973 through 2008.
    [Show full text]
  • GAME BOOK Games Bring Laughter, Excitement, Energy and Trust Into a Team
    GAME BOOK Games bring laughter, excitement, energy and trust into a team. Here are more than 400 games designed to do just that at YOKE Club. GAME Just some help with leading games. 1. Make it exciting for the kids. DON’T be fake with your enthusiasm, but create an atmosphere of fun and excitement. 2. PARTICIPATE in the activities. The kids want you to interact with them. If you are not leading a game, you should be participating in it. 3. Give directions without sounding like you are. Use positive statements instead of negative ones. (“Don’t put your hand in the candle wax!” “Only the wicks go into the hot candle wax.”) 4. Use other YOKE Folk to act out right and wrong ways of completing a task. Have the kids repeat the rules in shorthand versions or with one word for each rule. 5. Start with excitement! Have the most energetic, fun games at the beginning then decrease the energy level to lead to a more serious atmosphere for the Talk. 6. Change things up. The games in Club in a Box are mixed up and not repeated. Don’t play the same games week after week. 7. Always have a backup plan or extra games. Sometimes it rains on parades; have other games to add if time passes slowly or if the weather proves to be troublesome. 2 GAME No Supplies Needed: Alphabet Game Little Sally Walker Tag: Dancing Freeze Tag Anatomy Monster Walk Tag: Duck Duck Goose Back-to-Back Mother, May I? Tag: Elbow Bedlam Murder Wink Tag: Everybody’s It Birdie on the Wire Name that Tune Tag: Follow Birthday Shuffle Pangaea Tag: Fox/Hound Box the Leader Poor Kitty Tag:
    [Show full text]
  • Christina Aguilera Ain't That a Kick in the Head- Dean Martin Ain't
    A Thousand Years- Christina Perri Building A Mystery- Sarah McLachlan Busta Move- Young MC Ain’t No Other Man- Christina Aguilera California Girls- Katy Perry Ain’t That A Kick In The Head- Dean Martin California Love- Tupac Shakur Ain’t Too Proud To Beg- Temptations Call Me Maybe- Carly Rae Jepsen All I Want Is You- U2 Car wash- Rose Royce All Night Long- Lionel Richie Celebration- Kool and the Gang All Of Me- John Legend Chain of Fools- Aretha Franklin All Right Now- Free Club Can’t Handle Me- Flo Rida All Star- Smashmouth Cold Shot- Stevie Ray Vaughn American Boy- Estelle Come Fly With Me- Frank Sinatra American Girl- Tom Petty Counting Stars- One Republic Applause- Lady Gaga Crash- Dave Matthews Band Are You Gonna Be My Girl- Jet Crazy In Love- Beyonce Are You Gonna Go My Way- Lenny Kravitz Crazy- Gnarls Barkley At Last- Etta James Dancin’ With Myself- Billy Idol Bad Bad Leroy Brown- Jim Croce Dangerous- Akon Babylon- David Gray DJ Got Us Falling In Love- Usher Bad Girls- Donna Summers Domino- Jessie J Bad Romance- Lady Gaga Don’t Know Why- Norah Jones Badfish- Sublime Don’t Stop Believing- Journey Barracuda- Heart Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough- Michael Jackson Beast Of Burden- Rolling Stones Don’t You Want Me Baby- Human League Beautiful Day- U2 Down On The Corner- CCR Before He Cheats- Carrie Underwood Dreams- Fleetwood Mac Believe- Cher Dynamite- Taio Cruz Best Day Of My Life- American Authors Empire State Of Mind- Jay-Z/Alicia Keys Big Girls Don’t Cry- Fergie Every Breath You Take- The Police Billie Jean- Michael Jackson Everything-
    [Show full text]
  • Lyrics: Rise Shine #Woke
    LYRIC BOOK alphabetrockers.com Welcome Rockstars! We made this album for YOU. We made it for you to feel proud of who you are. We made Contents it so you could learn to be a super friend for someone else. We made it to remind us ALL of 1 The Nitro how this world is ours to change. We get to take 2 Turn On The Lights good care of each other. We can notice when 3 Rise things are not fair and say, “Wait. Stop! We can 4 Questions (Interlude) do better.” Let’s all do better. 5 I'm Proud This album reminds us to RISE, like the 6 My Light sun each morning. It reminds us to SHINE our 7 Shine light and lift each other up. It reminds us to 8 On the Corner (Interlude) be WOKE by waking up to injustice and doing 9 What Are You? everything we can to stop it. This music helps 10 Walls us to imagine a world where EVERYONE feels 11 Stand Up for You safe and loved. 12y Swa Imagine that you have the power to make 13 ACTIVITY GUIDE people around you feel welcome and know 14 ABOUT US they belong. You do! Imagine that you have the courage to speak out and stand up for justice. 15 ALBUM CREDITS You do! Imagine a world where we all feel free to be our true selves. This is the world we are making, rockstars! With love and hip hop, The Alphabet Rockers Crew ©π2017 School Time Music LLC | alphabetrockers.com | @alphabetrockers | [email protected] T he Nitro © School TIme Music LLC Written by Kaitlin McGaw, Tommy Shepherd, Jerry Lordan [sample of Sugarhill Gang “Apache (Jump on It)”] Whatcha gonna do when the rockers come through? Just wave 'em, wave 'em, wave 'em in the air I’m gonna have some fun! Wave 'em, wave 'em - like you just don’t care What do you consider fun? Bring it down to the floor, Fun, natural fun! Stomp it out you want some more.
    [Show full text]
  • Karaoke Catalog Updated On: 25/10/2018 Sing Online on Entire Catalog
    Karaoke catalog Updated on: 25/10/2018 Sing online on www.karafun.com Entire catalog TOP 50 Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood Wannabe - Spice Girls Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond Zombie - The Cranberries I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor Don't Stop Believing - Journey Dancing Queen - ABBA Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns N' Roses Perfect - Ed Sheeran Piano Man - Billy Joel Amarillo By Morning - George Strait Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Africa - Toto Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars Black Velvet - Alannah Myles Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra Santeria - Sublime Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver Killing Me Softly - The Fugees Someone Like You - Adele Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash Valerie - Amy Winehouse Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley Wagon Wheel - Darius Rucker New York, New York - Frank Sinatra Girl Crush - Little Big Town House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong Summer Nights - Grease Jackson - Johnny Cash Jolene - Dolly Parton Crazy - Patsy Cline Let It Go - Idina Menzel (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding My Girl - The Temptations All Of Me - John Legend I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash Turn The Page - Bob Seger Neon Moon - Brooks & Dunn My Way - Frank Sinatra These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter I Want It That Way - Backstreet
    [Show full text]
  • July 1909 Flora Beard Leaves China on the S.S
    1909 July 1909 Flora Beard leaves China on the S.S. George Washington via the Atlantic Ocean for the U.S. She is 40. October 19, 1909 Willard's cousin Frederick Wheeler Beard dies Willard is 44 years old, Ellen- 41, Phebe- 14, Gould- 13, Geraldine- 11, Dorothy- 8, Marjorie- 3, and Kathleen turns 1. They are all living in Foochow, China. [This letter dated Feb. 1, 1909 was written from Foochow, China by Flora to her sister, Phebe. She tells about baby Kathleen who would be six months at the time of the letter. She briefly mentions plans of going back to the U.S. Letter donated to Yale by family in 2006.] [Feb. 1, 1909.] Dear Phebe:- Thank you so much for the little tie. I shall proudly wear it because you made it “all by your lonesome.” It is a little beauty and may adorn my travelling suit home. The Xmas gifts all reached here safely and made each one as happy as he could be- even to baby Kathleen- “Cackaleen” – as Marjorie calls her. She is the happiest little mortal you can imagine. She has so many smiles for people that it keeps her busy the whole time to give them. She has grown so much in the two weeks I have been away that she is fast losing her “wee, tiny baby” look. I miss her more than most any one for she is the one free-to- love person in the house. The corsets I found here when I returned yesterday. A dozen letters and ever so many packages, just filled my desk top full.
    [Show full text]
  • Places to Go, People To
    VerThe Vanderbilt Hustler’s Arts su & Entertainment Magazine s DECEMBER 2—DECEMBER 8, 2009 VOL. 47, NO. 27 Versus editors came up with their holiday wish lists. Flip to page 9 for everything from Kindle to the Beatles. Who knew Kevin Mc- Callister could cause so much trouble? Check out page 4 for a holiday movie debate. Matt Shelton dishes out a celeb style report card. Turn to page 8 to see who made the grade. PLACES TO GO, PEOPLE TO SEE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 The Regulars Cheap Trick – Ryman Auditorium Mark Wehner Cd Release Party with Stephen Simmons – The 107.5 The River Acoustic Christmas – War Memorial Auditorium Surrender… to the sweet music of Cheap Trick as they triumphantly return Basement Nashville’s top 40 radio station 107.5 The River will sponsor the 2009 Acoustic THE RUTLEDGE to Nashville this Thursday night for a concert at the world-famous Ryman Mark Wehner appears to be releasing a CD but doing a poor job marketing it as Christmas at the War Memorial Auditorium. This year’s lineup features the 410 Fourth Ave. South 37201 782-6858 Auditorium. This rock/power pop band has been rocking the stage since 1974 information about him, his music, and what is coming out is hard to fi nd. Wehner is a following artists and more. Unfortunately the only way to get tickets is to register country singer with a sound sometimes described like that of Steve Earle. Opening for and win. The station will give away tickets every other hour starting at 6 a.m.
    [Show full text]
  • Tim Driscoll, Editor-In-Chief
    FALCON FLYER Spring 2014, Last weekend of April edition Tim Driscoll, Editor-in-Chief Sponsored by: La Cocina de Cindy ([email protected]), and The Brothers’ Gym (14 Bayville Ave., Bayville, NY) How about that Bu9 White team!!!!! AMAZING! Our boys, pictured below, put on a clinic for their first shutout! A special shoutout to parent coordinators Mike Brielmann and Wendy Fentress who have recruited several new players to join our “veterans” from past seasons. Gu 7 Falcon Fire 0-3 Loss The Falcon Fire faced the Bellmore Bluehearts this weekend. Although the Fire played more aggressively than in the past, the Bluehearts solid positioning and passing skills overpowered us us. Goalkeepers Lianna Morra and Brayden Haas both made some great saves, but the Fire defense was unable to keep Bellmore out of our zone. Cristiana May and Katie Nabet both had several shots on goal, but they were shut down by the Bellmore goalie each time. Even with the tenacious Ryann Croke, speedy Alix Smith and fierce defender Katie Kuebler, the game ended in a muddy 0-3 loss. Gu9 Friday Game (Makeup Game) Lost 0-1 The Little Lady Falcons lost a heartbreaker to the Village of the Branch/Smithtown in their first game back in action following spring break. The girls spent much of the first half getting the rust out and shutting an aggressive offense down with strong defense. Going into the second half, score tied 0-0, we were back in form and put together repeated drives to goal. Just when it looked like the game would end with a 0-0 tie, Smithtown got one in with about 40 seconds left in the game.
    [Show full text]
  • UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    UC Riverside UC Riverside Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title The Spinning Wheel Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7671k9cr Author Saunders, Natashia Publication Date 2012 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE The Spinning Wheel A Thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts by Natashia Saunders September 2012 Thesis Committee: Professor Tod Goldberg, Co-Chairperson Professor Goldberry Long, Co-Chairperson Professor Mary Waters Copyright by Natashia Saunders 2012 The Thesis of Natashia Saunders is approved: __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Committee Co-Chairperson __________________________________________________________ Committee Co-Chairperson University of California, Riverside I am dead. I died a nigga a long time ago. Before you were born, before your mother was born, ‘fore your grandmother. I was seventeen. Still am I reckon. And everyone that was there that night is dead now too so it don't matter that I was a nigga. Or a slave. What matters is I had a daughter, who had daughters, and they had theirs. Family I coulda saved a whole lot of trouble by tellin ‘em the secrets I know. You see, there are some stories that mothers never tell their daughters—secret stories. Stories that would prove a mother was once young, done thangs with men she could never tell, in ways she could never tell, and places she could never. Private stories where love, any semblance of love, would lead a person like me to the place I was that night in 1848 when I died a nigga.
    [Show full text]