Mark Gall says I’ve got a lot of good ideas rolling around in my head (clank-clank) for a book. He asks if I’ve seen the movie ‘Django Unchained’. My Rosamond ancestors left their plantations behind in South Carolina and moved to Texas.
The story is set in early winter and the following spring, during the antebellum era of the Deep South, with preliminary scenes taking place in Old West Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_UnchainedYou’ve got so many interesting ideas and family history rolling around in your head. Write a book about it, damn it!! Create a list of chapters, outline the content of each chapter, and then start writing.
Your blogs give you a head start on all this.
I know, easier said than done. But I think you’d get some catharsis from bringing all your ideas together into a book.
Perhaps I’m projecting myself onto you. Several of my books, one about study skills and another about curriculum materials, came about because I had ideas that just kept rolling around in my head, keeping me awake at night. My only relief was to craft a book.
As for Argo, I saw it twice and was on the edge of my seat each time. I thought the ending credits nicely acknowledged the real-life heroes of that story.
Have you seen Tarantino’s Django Unchained? That’s a wild ride. I liked it a lot, but I like everything he’s done.
Mark
https://rosamondpress.com/2015/01/22/branding-royal-rosamond-press/
A branch of the Rosamond family came to Texas in covered wagons and settled in Weldon. They were the Real McCoys who will go down in history because of Sweeny’s aliance with Rick Perry, a fake cowboy and patriot. The Hodges family alsocame to Texas.
Jon Presco
William A. Rosamond and his wife Canzada (Coleman) Rosamond and their six sons and other members of the Rosamond Family came from Kosciusko, Mississippi, where his parents owned a plantation on Big Black River. They came here in covered wagons in 1866 and experienced all the hardships on the way – wild animals and other threats to their lives.
They first settled for a short time in White Rock Creek where they were near water. Next they moved to Houston County. W.A. Rosamond, my grandpa, owned a gin and also a grist mill. And, was a farmer here in Weldon, Texas near the…
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