Seventy two years of July 4,; America for Stephen Fox

 Friends I I woke up this morning feeling real patriotic on July 4 thinking  about my experience in America.  This will be scattershot like all of us greatful  whether or not we deserve this great benefit act of kindness of being born and American without Donald Trump trying to deport us. I had a good fortune, my mother‘s father the distinguished looking tall man was born in 1881 and 110 years ago. He  ran for school superintendent as a Lincoln Republican in Northeast Alabama. I’m very proud of that that puts him in line with Judge Frank Johnson And great folks like that and I’m starting to feel like I’m worthy as well if I had a different temperament maybe I should’ve run for Congress or governor or something that I thought I was gonna do when I came out of Gaffney high school but things didn’t work out that way. I’m fairly well read course. I’m not a faculty member any great college but I know some among which is Randall Balmer just retired from Dartmouth Doug Cumming of the journalism department of Washington Lee, his father hired Marshall Friday had some exchanges with Bill Moyers 40 years ago when my mother was still living She was proud gotten to know he bring Edward Bridges. He has a Furman grad has a doctor in Chicago I brought him to Collinsville to speak on the BiCentennial of the history of Alabama  which he wrote.  Sam Hodges is not a history teacher, but he travels., two Rhodes  scholar nominees acquainted with Dudley Reynolds from Anniston, Alabama, and the preacher who married the daughter of the Attorney General for South Carolina Baptist,Richard Kremer. . He was at St. John’s for a while. He’s Sharp fellow and here in the last 10 years Ainsley QURROS Furman grad wwho got a masters in our Doctor from Vanderbilt she wrote a book about civil rights movie in America Georgia And she her father has think about a 2000 acre pecan farm down that way and of course I got the university of Virginia who wrote the book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Charles Marsh)  so I’ve read those books. I’ve read some point. McCarthy read Jew Lepore these truth so I don’t find too many people on the city bus in Clemson other than share the history apartments down that there is more than I do on these matters last night. I went to sleep house thinking about four minute presentation. I may show up at the town hall for our congresswoman between me and you don’t know where asked for a hole ground and I would explain that to her and just see how much she could take before somebody told me to sit down so my grandfather Fox had an eighth grade education, but his brother 20 years younger than him on the show of Ron with Nixon sitting to China in 1970 at the peach in Gaffney, I became pretty well acquainted with Roger Milligan Junior, whose father the town is one of 20 richest men in America. I can’t say we’ve been lifelong friends, but I’ve talked to him recently 10 years ago on the phone and in Collinsville I became not only with the George Wallace’s rude man, red Etheridge, but also With Brett MORGEN who got a six minute standing ovation at the can fin festival three years ago for his documentary on David Bowie boy BOWIE in previously six years or done one on the Rolling Stones so I’m in the right circles. I just don’t see these people every day And I’m not ashamed of it and it’s been an interesting experience what America has done for me, including Mr. Paul, Beam's wife, my advanced math teacher in Gaffney, who came over to the pencil sharpener when I was a senior and she said Stephen, Paul  and I think you’re a fine young man we congratulate you on your scholarship to Furman. I just wanna let you know that we know how much Furman  cost and we know how much your daddy makes and if it anytime you need some assistance Paul knows a lot of people down there. Don’t hesitate to call so when I told mom she was a she was proud of that and of course this Johnny Dawkins he wrote early script for Denzel, Washington and Montgomery and her son Donnie so yeah America it’s been written and yeah I got baptized. It’s the true memorial Baptist Church in Gaffney and Truett was probably the greatest Baptist the first half of the 20th century and then firm was acquainted with the Kathys who own Chick-fil-A and worth about $40 billion got to know Bob Morrison and the Baptist struggles who is married into the  family SYSCO Mr.  BAUGH and so and of course new pets I’m at Will the Campbell a legend at Marshall Frady talk to me on the phone a couple times and read this film script, Russ being BEENEN I concocted and was to come to Furman and promised to read it again, but he say on first reading he found it pandemoniously picaresque so pick a new one for me. I’d look it up. That’s just kind of circles. I’ve ended up being so see my blog a few days ago on John store and the rock store and Sherman and the whole kitten caboodle so if I can get my buddy to post this and I’ll come back in a few days and work on the dictated typos, and God bless America.

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