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This week has four holidays for me. Today is my maternal grandfather’s birthday. Tomorrow is Halloween. The next day is All Saints Day. The day after that is All Soul’s Day. This is a set of which I have observed various members with differing intensity over the years. Each has been different but each has been an important part of a small mini-season as it were.

Today is my maternal grandfather’s birthday. His name is Cecil Bruce Gremillion.  His wife died on my most recent birthday June 15,2009. My grandmothers name was Beverlee Hollier Gremillion. They were married for over 65 years and together a bit before that both engaged and  courting. Together they went through World War II, built a home and reared a family. They went in to hospice care together. My grandmother died almost immediately and my grandfather whom almost anyone would have thought was the sicker one has lingered to make this birthday and for all I know may make another.

Advertising the bed and breakfast in their home

Blessing Kisinoaks after moving and while renovating it.

Around Abbeville Anglo-Acadian Americans as appellation for autumn say fall.

Unless there are reasons not to say things for cued content or audience.

There is gumbo, TV baseball and football.  We hunt and play or watch ball.

Untill November it is too early for the apt application of “fall” present tense.

Mostly  life looks like summer although  so much nicer to most us for the cool.

Not like summer where comfort comes from the AC or, better yet, the pool.

I love this time of year in average terms though storms can make it nearly hell.

Now Yankee Autumn in Acadiana’s tale was a worse time yet for what they tell. 

Abbeville, Breaux Bridge, New Iberia and Ville Platte will no Vermont rival.

Colored leaves beyond the imagination of most folks exist in that state.

Around here we get the generous chicken tree to call out fall’s arrival.

Dour grow our perennial oaks and hold shabby green out even late.

In conifers too we have more poverty of leaf than color’s carnivals.

As among these greens, greys and browns we look we see bursts of blaze.

Now we see more game and fowl amid the wildlands less lush maze.

Autumn in Acadiana is our autumn and acceptably summer lulls.

I live round the corner from Abbeville Road, a street locally renowned for being chi-chi and middle class. It has an artisan bakery, a delicatessan, an antiques shop and several cafes and restaurants. And the pub is appropriately called The Abbeville. It’s got a great atmosphere and yesterday I met a friend there who introduced me to her sister and other friends, and most importantly, a friend of hers who is on the staff. Suffice it to say, this could have distinct advantages…

Sephardic Jews have lived in the state for more than 300 years,(*) (*) (*) especially in and around Charleston (*). Until about 1830, South Carolina had the largest population of Jews in North America. Many of South Carolina’s Jews have assimilated into Christian society, shrinking Judaism down to less than 1% of the total religious makeup. In addition, Roman Catholicism is growing in South Carolina due to immigration from the North.

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Mr. Sproull, a native of Anniston, was born the son of Horace Miller Sproull Sr. and Sara Powers Sproull on April 29, 1920. His mother died five days after giving birth. In 1950, he became the third generation president of The Anniston Hardware Company and The Gadsden Hardware Company, family owned businesses founded by his grandfather James Creswell Sproull, Wade Cothran Sproull and J.A. Cheney in 1887. He was widely known as an astute businessman and civic leader.

He retired from the hardware business in 1976 when the business was sold to a local group of investors. As a young boy, he was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and earned the Eagle Scout badge. He attended Anniston public schools through the tenth grade. He graduated in 1937 from The Darlington School, Rome, Ga., a college preparatory school, and received his B.S. degree in Economics from Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., in 1941. While at Davidson, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and the varsity tennis team. He joined the U.S. Navy in July of 1941 prior to Pearl Harbor.

Following his graduation from Midshipman School in 1942, he was assigned to the Pacific Theatre where he served during World War II, participating in six naval battles against Japan. He was honorably discharged as a Lt. Commander from the Navy in October 1946. Upon returning to Anniston he was made Vice President of The Anniston Hardware Company. In 1947, he married Barbara Crook Vaden and they had six children. He survived a tragedy in June, 1959 when he suffered second and third degree burns over 67 percent of his body during a mishap at a Father’s Day get together with family and relatives at his home.

A lifelong member of The First Presbyterian Church, he was an Elder and a Deacon. He was a teacher of The Sam Russell Bible Class there for thirty years. In 1962, he helped raise money to build the educational building for the church. He also helped to found and was President of The Soup Bowl, a charitable organization feeding the hungry.

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Did anyone get a chance to watch this great one hour program on ABC last week? If you didn’t you missed what may Primericans have been saying for years. Although it had nothing to do with Primerica it mimiced everything we talk about. Hosted by Good Morning America contributor and President of Ariel Investments Mellody Hobson, the special features Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, the Jonas Brothers, Christian Slater, Cedric the Entertainer, Seth Green, Sesame Workshop’s Oscar the Grouch, Rosario Dawson and the E*Trade Babies, among others. It was well worth the watch. I would suggest you head over to ABC.com to watch it but they do not have it up on the website so your best bet is to look up Un-Broke in youtube and watch the clips. Here is the one I liked the best.

Welcome to our new Blog site. This is my (James) first post and I’m sure Kathy will post something soon. I wanted to welcome you and invite you to join in on our progress as we chart a course and achieve great things! I know it sounds ambitious, and it is, but we are planning great things for ourselves and our team.

We hope that if you have been directed to our site that you please let us know who you are and how you got here! We would love to hear reports of the success of others and what you have done to have success. We are building a business from the ground up and as we do this we are learning so much and we hope to share that with people who come and visit.

I would like to start out with some really great speakers we had the pleasure of hearing this past weekend. The first was Gary Coxe who you can find at www.garycoxe.com. What a great session he put on for our group. If you are seeking change, his website is the place to start, and his book “Don’t let others rent space in your head” should be on your reading list.

Our speaker on Saturday was Keith Otto. Keith earns over a million dollars a year and was a great inspiration to hear live. He spoke about how he got into business and what it took for him to move from producing less than $20,000 a year to almost 2 million dollars a year. One of the most important points he made is that it is a mindset that you have to develop to get you to the top.
If you’re seeking greatness and feel that you have greatness within you that you want to bring out then please let us know if we can help you! We are already on the way but it’s not too late to join us.

James
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A Louisiana woman is suing Wal-Mart over what she claims was a much-too-close encounter of the furry kind.

Rebecca White says in her lawsuit that employees at a Wal-Mart in Abbeville let a rat-tailed rodent known as a nutria run loose and scare her. She says that not only did employees know it was in their store, but gave it a pet name, Norman, and failed to warn shoppers.

White says she was pushing a full shopping cart down an aisle in October when the nutria ran out from behind a rack. She says she pulled the cart backward in a panicked attempt to protect herself and hurt her back and foot.

Nutria have bright orange buck teeth and can weigh up to 18 pounds. Would-be fur farmers in 22 states imported them in large numbers in the 1930s and ’40s, then released them when they proved unprofitable. They proliferated in south Louisiana.

White wants compensation for pain, suffering, mental anguish, fear, disabling injuries, and medical expenses. Her attorney says the surgery bills aren’t in yet, but other medical bills totaled nearly $2,000.